Tuberose

Water

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

Needs about 1,530 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 910 mm it can use in a normal year, and 730 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 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 33 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 32 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 26 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 23 °C
• Nov 30 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 27 °C / 13 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 26 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 30 °C / 15 °C
• Mar 34 °C / 20 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• May 39 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 36 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in April 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 boron.

Likes pH 6.5–7.5.

Money

Yield: about 45 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.