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granny smith apple Granny Smith Apple planting

grown by maco in food forest · Wheaton-Glenmont, MD

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459W

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

almost 12 years ago 2014-11-23

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 advanced plant

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Short code

459W for plant markers and labels

Grown from

Advanced plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Wheaton-Glenmont, MD New

Daily high and low
Too cold for granny smith apple so farFrom Nov 23 to Sep 06, 77 of 288 days had a high inside the best range of 14–27°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -2°C on 60 days. The highs were below the best range on 118 days and above the best range on 93 days. The weather was too hot on 10 days (highs above 33°C) and too cold on 146 days (lows below 8°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -2 °CGrows at 8–33°Grows best 14–27°
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 September 06, 2015, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
710 mm
Hottest day
34.8°C
Coldest night
-19.4°C
Soil temperature
12.7°C
Days in its best range
77 of 288
Days
288

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

Bought from Stark Brothers as "dwarf supreme"

Photos

Apple tree
Apple tree
by maco

Frost may have reached this granny smith apple planting

109 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -19.4 °C.

This granny smith apple planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-19.4 °C
21.4 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
150 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 21 Apr
Usual last frost
9 Apr
planted 137 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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Granny Smith Apple

Malus domestica

a variety of Apple

  • 1 planting
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun