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  1. Planted 2023-09-24
  2. First harvest 2023-12-01 expected
  3. Finished 2023-12-01
  4. Last harvest 2023-12-23 expected

Harvest months

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

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 3 years ago 2023-09-24

Progress

Done 68 days

Degree days

254 of about 2,040 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Weather in Wellington, New Zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for cayenne pepper so farFrom Sep 24 to Dec 01, 1 of 69 days had a high inside the best range of 18–30°C. The highs were below the best range on 68 days. The weather was too cold on 19 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 7–40°Grows best 18–30°
Daily rainfall
Rain
144 mm
Hottest day
19.9°C
Coldest night
2.0°C
Soil temperature
11.9°C
Days in its best range
1 of 69
Days
69

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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No frost reached this cayenne pepper planting

Frost was possible until 1 Oct, and no night in that time was colder than 3.7 °C. The cayenne pepper planting went in on 24 Sep, 26 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This cayenne pepper planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
3.7 °C
1.7 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
8 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 26 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 cayenne pepper

Cayenne Pepper

Capsicum annuum var. acuminatum

a variety of Chili Pepper

  • 27 plantings
  • 3 harvests
  • An annual, living about 84 days
  • First harvest about 68 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 90 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other cayenne pepper plantings at the same latitude.