Chickpea · Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
When to plant chickpeas in Zapopan
Main outdoor window
14 Jul - 4 Aug
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Zapopan, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
26 December
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Zapopan
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 for autumn
14 Jul - 4 Aug
Counting back 144 days from your first frost so the crop matures in time.
Chickpeas through the year
Against the frost risk in Zapopan
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 Zapopan.
Also in Zapopan
Other grains to time
Growing chickpeas in Zapopan
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.