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  1. Sown 2013-04-17
  2. First harvest 2013-08-17 expected

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-04-17

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Degree days

719 of about 1,080 needed

Quantity

40 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Weather in Culpeper County, Virginia New

Daily high and low
Too cold for pearl millet so farFrom Apr 17 to Jul 16, 49 of 91 days had a high inside the best range of 25–35°C. The highs were below the best range on 42 days. The weather was too cold on 29 days (lows below 12°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 12–40°Grows best 25–35°
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 July 16, 2013, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
356 mm
Hottest day
32.5°C
Coldest night
2.3°C
Soil temperature
19.1°C
Days in its best range
49 of 91
Days
91

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

Actually Japanese millet. Got choked out by pokeweed, will try again next year as forage for goats and grain for chickens.

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    Planted

No frost reached this pearl millet planting

Frost was possible until 28 Apr, and no night in that time was colder than 2.3 °C. The pearl millet planting went in on 17 Apr, 7 days after the usual last frost (10 Apr).

This pearl millet planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.3 °C
0.3 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
12 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 28 Apr
Usual last frost
10 Apr
planted 7 days after 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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Pearl Millet

Pennisetum glaucum

  • 1 planting
  • An annual
  • Usually grown in sun