Tuberose

Water

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

Needs about 1,470 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 310 mm it can use in a normal year, and 250 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 20–30 °C on average, and survives 12–33 °C.

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

• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 18 °C
• Nov 27 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 22 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 20 °C / 7 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 24 °C / 10 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 30 °C / 14 °C
• Apr 36 °C / 20 °C
• May 40 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 38 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in June get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

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

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

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 19 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.