Gladiolus

Water

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

Needs about 610 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain in its months gives about 30 mm it can use in a normal year (10 mm in a dry one), and the soil holds about 180 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 33 °C / 22 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 31 °C / 18 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 15 °C
• Jan 31 °C / 15 °C
• Feb 34 °C / 18 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 37 °C / 22 °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: 9 out of 10 (good).

Not in the score: zinc, iron, copper and manganese.

• The pH here suits it.

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.