Gladiolus

Water

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

Needs about 420 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 40 mm it can use in a normal year, and 20 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

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

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

• Sep 34 °C / 24 °C (outside its best range)
• Oct 33 °C / 19 °C (outside its best range)
• Nov 28 °C / 12 °C
• Dec 23 °C / 7 °C
• Jan 19 °C / 7 °C
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Soil

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

Not in the score: nitrogen.

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

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.