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painted mountain corn Painted Mountain Corn planting

grown by shiny in Sunny old raised bed · Wellington, New Zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Sown 2019-12-11
  2. First harvest 2020-04-11
  3. Last harvest 2020-04-13
  4. Finished 2020-04-13

Harvest months

Spring
September
October
November
Summer
December
January
February
Autumn
March
April, usually harvesting
May
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 7 years ago 2019-12-11

Progress

Done 124 days

Degree days

509 of about 1,008 needed

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

full sun

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for painted mountain corn so farFrom Dec 11 to Apr 13, 41 of 125 days had a high inside the best range of 18–33°C. The highs were below the best range on 84 days. The weather was too cold on 40 days (lows below 10°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 10–47°Grows best 18–33°
Daily rainfall
Rain
260 mm
Hottest day
20.5°C
Coldest night
6.8°C
Soil temperature
16.2°C
Days in its best range
41 of 125
Days
125

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.

Photos

IMG_20191227_184914
IMG_20191227_184914
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

No frost reached this painted mountain corn planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this painted mountain corn planting. The painted mountain corn planting went in on 11 Dec, 104 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This painted mountain corn planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
0 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 104 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 painted mountain corn

Painted Mountain Corn

a variety of Corn

  • 2 plantings
  • 4 harvests
  • An annual, living about 122 days
  • First harvest about 110 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 115 days after planting

World neighbours

Other painted mountain corn plantings at the same latitude.