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Jackfruit facts

Lifespan

Perennial living more than two years
Optimal temperature 20–30 °C
Absolute temperature 16–34 °C
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal rainfall 1500–3000 mm/year
Absolute rainfall 700–4200 mm/year
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal soil pH 5.5–7.5
Absolute soil pH 4.3–8
FAO EcoCrop

Crop cycle

210–365 days
FAO EcoCrop

Max altitude

1600 m
FAO EcoCrop

Optimal light

very bright to clear skies
FAO EcoCrop
What are growing degree days?

A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.

Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.

For Jackfruit, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 16°C and a shortest growing cycle of 210 days at its best temperature, about 1890 growing degree days to a first harvest.

Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your Jackfruit will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.

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Time to harvest

If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 210 to 365 days.

From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.

Ecological requirements

Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.

Family / Taxonomy Magnoliopsida
Dilleniidae
Urticales
Moraceae
Life form tree
Life span perennial
Habit erect
Optimal soil depth deep (>>150 cm)
Optimal soil texture medium
Optimal soil fertility moderate
Optimal soil drainage well (dry spells)
Optimal soil salinity low (<4 dS/m)
Photoperiod long day (>14 hours)

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