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pearl drop onion grown by shiny
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Pearl Drop Onion planting

grown by shiny in Vege garden plot 2 · Wellington, New zealand

All of shiny's plantings

Done
  1. Sown 2019-03-24
  2. Finished 2019-09-04

No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

over 7 years ago 2019-03-24

Progress

Done 164 days

Degree days

972 of about 1,233 needed

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

not rated

Parent Seed

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for pearl drop onion so farFrom Mar 24 to Sep 04, 85 of 165 days had a high inside the best range of 12–25°C. The highs were below the best range on 80 days. The weather was too cold on 16 days (lows below 4°C).
2 °C frost lineGrows at 4–30°Grows best 12–25°
Daily rainfall
Rain
595 mm
Hottest day
19.4°C
Coldest night
-1.3°C
Soil temperature
10.0°C
Days in its best range
85 of 165
Days
165

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_20190421_084953
IMG_20190421_084953
by shiny

Observations

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

  1. Day 0
    Planted

Frost may have reached this pearl drop onion planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -1.3 °C.

This pearl drop onion planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
-1.3 °C
3.3 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
93 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
planted 158 days before 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)

Harvests

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Jobs

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Crop

Photo of pearl drop onion

Pearl Drop Onion

a variety of Onion

  • 1 planting
  • An annual, living about 164 days