Lemon planting

grown by bigblen in Orchard · Rapaki Road, Christchurch

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Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 17 years ago 2010-01-01

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 advanced plant

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Advanced plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Rapaki Road, Christchurch New

Daily high and low

Too cold for lemon so farFrom Jan 01 to Nov 06, 141 of 310 days had a high inside the best range of 15–28°C. The highs were below the best range on 169 days. The weather was too cold on 256 days (lows below 12°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at -2 °CGrows at 12–36°Grows best 15–28°

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 06, 2010, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 643 mm
Hottest day: 28.0°C
Coldest night: -1.5°C
Soil temperature: 12.3°C
Days in its best range: 141 of 310
Days: 310

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.

Notes

Meyer Lemon #2. Small tree that spent a long time in a pot, then took ages to get going after planting out.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

2010-01-01 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this lemon planting

27 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.5 °C.

This lemon planting against the frost season

Frost danger

1 Jun – 26 Sep

1 Jun →

This planting

Finished 6 Nov

Planted 268 days before the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

-1.5 °C

3.5 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

158 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 15 Oct

Usual last frost

26 Sep

planted 268 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)