Gladiolus

Water

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

Needs about 460 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 20 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 160 mm from the monsoon at sowing.

Temperature

Grows best at 10–25 °C on average, and survives 10–32 °C.

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

• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 25 °C / 11 °C
• Jan 23 °C / 10 °C
• Feb 27 °C / 13 °C
• Mar 33 °C / 17 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

Soil for Gladiolus: 9 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 66 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.