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Rapunzel tomato Rapunzel Tomato planting

grown by shiny in North West bed · Wellington, NZ

All of shiny's plantings

  1. Sown 2026-09-21
  2. Moved to North West bed 2026-10-26
  3. First harvest 2026-12-04 expected
  4. Finished 2027-04-10 expected

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-21

Progress

27%
day 55 of 201

Degree days

212 of about 1,155 needed

Quantity

4 seeds

Grown in

not specified

Rating

3 of 5

Parent Seed

Grown from

Seed Your rapunzel tomato packet

Hardiness

Tender A frost damages it Usual for the parent crop

Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for Rapunzel tomato so farFrom Sep 21 to Nov 10, 0 of 51 days had a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 51 days. The weather was too cold on 15 days (lows below 7°C).
Expected to be mixed for Rapunzel tomatoGoing by last year's weather, 5 of the 151 days from Nov 11 to Apr 10 should have a high inside the best range of 20–27°C. The highs could be below the best range on 146 days. It could be too cold on 2 days (lows below 7°C).
Latest, Nov 10: 18.5°C / 11.9°C2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–35°Grows best 20–27°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 10: 18.7 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
116 mm
Hottest day
18.5°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
12.6°C
Days in its best range
0 of 51
Days
51

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

Rapunzel seedling
Rapunzel seedling
by shiny
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IMG_0402
by shiny
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IMG_20261026_162104
by shiny
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IMG_20261025_113730
by shiny
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IMG_0362
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IMG_20261011_174940
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost danger has passed for this Rapunzel tomato planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 45 days ago. The Rapunzel tomato planting went outdoors on 26 Oct, 58 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This Rapunzel tomato 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, 74 days after this Rapunzel tomato 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)

Harvests

No harvests recorded yet.

Seeds saved

No seeds saved yet.

Jobs

Nothing is planned here.

Finished

put Rapunzel tomato into new garden

21 days ago

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Crop

Photo of Rapunzel tomato

Rapunzel Tomato

a variety of Cherry Tomato

  • 3 plantings
  • 5 harvests
  • An annual, living about 201 days
  • First harvest about 74 days after planting

World neighbours

Other Rapunzel tomato plantings at the same latitude.