Chickpea · Gurugram, Haryana, India
When to plant chickpeas in Gurugram
Main outdoor window
24 Dec - 14 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Gurugram, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
3 Apr - 3 May
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Gurugram
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Sow direct
24 Dec - 14 Jan
Two weeks before your last frost.
Harvest
3 Apr - 3 May
Chickpeas through the year
Against the frost risk in Gurugram
Why these dates
Sow two weeks before the last frost in a climate with dry summers. Where late summer is wet, sow as early as possible so the pods dry before the rain arrives.
Seedlings tolerate about -4C. Flowers are damaged at -1C, so a late frost during bloom reduces the pod set without killing the plant.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Chickpeas are timed for direct sowing 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Gurugram.
Also in Gurugram
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Growing chickpeas in Gurugram
When should I plant chickpeas in Gurugram?
Aim for 24 Dec - 14 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 30 Dec - 20 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will chickpeas be ready to harvest in Gurugram?
Expect to start picking around 3 Apr - 3 May, based on 100 to 130 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will chickpeas tolerate?
Seedlings tolerate about -4C. Flowers are damaged at -1C, so a late frost during bloom reduces the pod set without killing the plant.