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Planted

about 15 years ago 2011-09-10

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

4 seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seed

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Paeroa, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for loquat so farFrom Sep 10 to Mar 08, 2 of 181 days had a high inside the best range of 21–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 179 days. The weather was too cold on 33 days (lows below 9°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 9–36°Grows best 21–27°
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 March 08, 2012, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
620 mm
Hottest day
22.1°C
Coldest night
4.6°C
Soil temperature
14.6°C
Days in its best range
2 of 181
Days
181

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

One loquat was put in as a small tree and is sheltering the banana from the wind, the others are ones that popped up from seed early in 2014.

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Observations

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    Planted

No frost reached this loquat planting

Frost was possible until 6 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 4.6 °C. The loquat planting went in on 10 Sep, 5 days after the usual last frost (5 Sep).

This loquat planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
4.6 °C
2.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
27 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 6 Oct
Usual last frost
5 Sep
planted 5 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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Crop

Photo of loquat

Loquat

Eriobotrya japonica

  • 7 plantings
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other loquat plantings at the same latitude.