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capsicum Capsicum planting

grown by shiny in behind the feijoa · Wellington, New Zealand

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Planted 2026-10-10

First harvest expected 2027-03-23

Finish expected 2027-04-06

  • capsicum
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Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 1 month ago 2026-10-10

Progress

19% day 34 of 178

Quantity

unknown seeds

Grown in

not specified

Rating

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Short code

TJKF for plant markers and labels

Parent Seed

capsicum
capsicum

Grown from

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Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for capsicum so farFrom Oct 10 to Nov 08, 3 of 30 days had a high inside the best range of 17–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 27 days. The weather was too cold on 7 days (lows below 8°C).
Expected to be too cold for capsicumGoing by last year's weather, 65 of the 149 days from Nov 09 to Apr 06 should have a high inside the best range of 17–30°C. The highs could be below the best range on 84 days. It could be too cold on 8 days (lows below 8°C).
Latest, Nov 08: 16.3°C / 11.8°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 8–35°Grows best 17–30°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 08: 1.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain
58 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
6.1°C
Soil temperature
14.0°C
Days in its best range
3 of 30
Days
30

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.

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Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost danger has passed for this capsicum planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 43 days ago. The capsicum planting went outdoors on 1 Nov, 64 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This capsicum planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Somewhere safe from frost
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 78 days after this capsicum planting finishes
Frost-free season
295 days
in a typical year

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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Jobs

Pull out finished plants

in 3 months
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Pick fruit regularly

in about 1 month
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Finished

Feed with liquid fertiliser

in 8 days
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Stake the plants

13 days ago
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Crop

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Capsicum

Capsicum

  • 31 plantings
  • 7 harvests
  • An annual, living about 178 days
  • First harvest about 78 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 99 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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