Sweet pepper · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
When to plant sweet peppers in Mumbai
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Mumbai, 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 Mumbai
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.
Sweet peppers through the year
Against the frost risk in Mumbai
Why these dates
Peppers germinate slowly and unevenly below 24C, so start them two weeks ahead of tomatoes. Bottom heat makes a bigger difference here than for any other common vegetable.
Frost kills peppers outright, but the more common failure is chilling injury: a week of nights near 5C stunts a young plant for the rest of the season without visibly damaging it.
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. Sweet peppers are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Mumbai.
Also in Mumbai
Other vegetables to time
Growing sweet peppers in Mumbai
How much frost will sweet peppers tolerate?
Frost kills peppers outright, but the more common failure is chilling injury: a week of nights near 5C stunts a young plant for the rest of the season without visibly damaging it.