Safe to Plant

Mashua · Cần Thơ, Can Tho City, Vietnam

When to plant mashua in Cần Thơ

Main outdoor window

not outdoors here

The window this page is built around.

Timed from last spring frost

no spring frost

In Cần Thơ, on your chosen risk.

First autumn frost

no autumn frost

The far end of the outdoor season.

The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.

Step by step in Cần Thơ

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.

Frost tolerance
Tender
Damaged below
-2°C (28.4°F)
Days to maturity
180–210
Hardy to
Zone 8a–10a
Min soil temp
10°C (50°F)
Spacing
45 cm
Sun
Full

Mashua through the year

Against the frost risk in Cần Thơ

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Why these dates

As for oca: the tops go at about -2C and the crop is lifted afterwards.

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. Mashua are timed with planting out 0 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Cần Thơ.

Cần Thơ sits in zone 13a, which is milder than this crop wants, and a winter that never really arrives is its own problem. The dates below still describe the right time of year; the open question is survival rather than timing.

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Growing mashua in Cần Thơ

How much frost will mashua tolerate?

As for oca: the tops go at about -2C and the crop is lifted afterwards.