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Khorasan Wheat
A variety of wheat
How to sow Khorasan wheat: Direct seed into furrows. Broadcast or use grain drill. Rake in, roll soil to firm the bed.
Sun requirement for Khorasan wheat: Plant in Full Sun
An ancient wheat, known for at least 5,000 years, with grains much larger than other wheat, hard and glassy and with no hull. Whole grains can be cooked like rice after long soaking, and ground grain makes flatbread with a sourdough starter or a creamy porridge. It is easy to grow and thresh, and the heads need covering as the grain ripens. Sow in autumn or early spring, and mature the harvest in a greenhouse for about two weeks before threshing.
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Khorasan wheat facts
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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 Khorasan wheat, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 5°C and a shortest growing cycle of 90 days at its best temperature, about 1260 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 Khorasan wheat 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 90 to 250 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 Triticum aestivum L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Liliopsida Commelinidae Cyperales Gramineae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: 0 °C, rest: -20 °C |
| Life form | grass |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
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