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No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 13 years ago 2013-08-17

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 bare root plant

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bare root plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Woomelang, Victoria New

Daily high and low
Too hot and too cold for apricot so farFrom Aug 17 to Mar 15, 178 of 211 days had a high inside the best range of 14–35°C. The highs were below the best range on 5 days and above the best range on 28 days. The weather was too hot on 11 days (highs above 40°C) and too cold on 23 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 7–40°Grows best 14–35°
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 March 15, 2014, when it was expected to finish.

Rain
158 mm
Hottest day
43.2°C
Coldest night
2.6°C
Soil temperature
22.0°C
Days in its best range
178 of 211
Days
211

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

Just beginning to show buds.

Update 2013-09-21: now has blossom and leaves half-way out: going strong.

Photos

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Observations

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

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    Planted

No frost reached this apricot planting

Frost was possible until 11 Sep, and no night in that time was colder than 2.6 °C. The apricot planting went in on 17 Aug, 8 days before the usual last frost (25 Aug).

This apricot planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
2.6 °C
0.6 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
26 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 11 Sep
Usual last frost
25 Aug
planted 8 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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Seeds saved

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Jobs

Add fruit fly traps

in 2 months

Finished

Add fruit fly netting

26 days ago

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14 days ago

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Crop

Photo of apricot

Apricot

Prunus armeniaca

  • 6 plantings
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other apricot plantings at the same latitude.