Gladiolus

Water

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

Needs about 570 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 200 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 31 °C / 21 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 30 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 28 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 13 °C
• Feb 32 °C / 16 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 103 quintals an acre, the typical figure in your state (its government crop records list none for your district).

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.