Chrysanthemum

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 220 mm it can use in a normal year, and 120 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 18–25 °C on average, and survives 14–31 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jul 35 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Sep 34 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 33 °C / 15 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 11 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in October get hotter than it likes. Time sowing so it flowers before then.

Soil

Soil for Chrysanthemum: 7 out of 10 (okay).

Not in the score: boron.

• Soil here is often more alkaline than it likes.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.
• Most fields here are short of zinc.

Likes pH 6.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 99 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.