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Planted

about 12 years ago 2014-09-11

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 bare root plant

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bare root plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Paeroa, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for chestnut so farFrom Sep 11 to Mar 10, 131 of 181 days had a high inside the best range of 15–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 50 days. The weather was too cold on 7 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–30°Grows best 15–25°
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 10, 2015, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
429 mm
Hottest day
24.6°C
Coldest night
4.2°C
Soil temperature
15.4°C
Days in its best range
131 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

placed this at the bottom of the incline to catch any soil that starts running off.

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    Planted

No frost reached this chestnut planting

Frost was possible until 6 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 4.2 °C. The chestnut planting went in on 11 Sep, 6 days after the usual last frost (5 Sep).

This chestnut planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
4.2 °C
2.2 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
26 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 6 Oct
Usual last frost
5 Sep
planted 6 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 chestnut

Chestnut

Castanea spp.

  • 2 plantings
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other chestnut plantings at the same latitude.