Gladiolus

Water

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

Needs about 430 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 10 mm it can use in a normal year (0 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 20 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 / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 29 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 8 °C
• Jan 20 °C / 6 °C
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C
• Mar 30 °C / 15 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen, copper and boron.

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

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.