Gladiolus

Water

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

Needs about 620 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 0 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 150 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 34 °C / 20 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 33 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 31 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 30 °C / 12 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 37 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

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

Soil

Soil for Gladiolus: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Salt in the soil here can harm it.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

Likes pH 5.5–6.5.

Money

Yield: about 31 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.