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Planted

over 20 years ago 2006-06-01

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

2 cuttings

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Cutting

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Rapaki Road, Christchurch New

Daily high and low
Too cold for red currant so farFrom Jun 01 to Nov 13, 114 of 166 days had a high inside the best range of 10–22°C. The low reached the killing temperature of 0°C on 15 days. The highs were below the best range on 51 days and above the best range on 1 day. The weather was too cold on 94 days (lows below 5°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–25°Grows best 10–22°
Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on November 13, 2006, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
332 mm
Hottest day
22.1°C
Coldest night
-2.0°C
Soil temperature
8.5°C
Days in its best range
114 of 166
Days
166

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

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Frost may have reached this red currant planting

36 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -2 °C.

This red currant planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-2 °C
4 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
137 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 15 Oct
Usual last frost
26 Sep
planted 117 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

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Crop

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Red Currant

Ribes rubrum

  • 4 plantings
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun