Apple planting

grown by Skud in Ballarat backyard, zone 2 · Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

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Harvest months

Spring

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Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 13 years ago 2013-12-15

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 plant

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Ballarat, Victoria New

Daily high and low

Too cold for apple so farFrom Dec 15 to Sep 28, 137 of 288 days had a high inside the best range of 14–27°C. The highs were below the best range on 113 days and above the best range on 38 days. The weather was too hot on 11 days (highs above 33°C) and too cold on 134 days (lows below 8°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at -2 °CGrows at 8–33°Grows best 14–27°

Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on September 28, 2014, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 359 mm
Hottest day: 38.6°C
Coldest night: -1.6°C
Soil temperature: 13.6°C
Days in its best range: 137 of 288
Days: 288

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.

Notes

This apple tree was here when I moved in. I have no idea what kind it is (yet); it might be a crabapple.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

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

2013-12-15 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

No frost reached this apple planting

Frost was possible until 28 Oct. We have no night temperatures for this apple planting. The apple planting went in on 15 Dec, 73 days after the usual last frost (3 Oct).

This apple planting against the frost season

Frost danger

1 Jun – 3 Oct

1 Jun →

This planting

Finished 28 Sep

Planted 73 days after the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
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Planting, finished

Frost danger it grew through

152 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 28 Oct

Usual last frost

3 Oct

planted 73 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)