Quinoa · Sultan Pur Majra, Delhi, India
When to plant quinoa in Sultan Pur Majra
Main outdoor window
31 Dec - 21 Jan
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
7 January
In Sultan Pur Majra, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
20 Apr - 20 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 Sultan Pur Majra
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
31 Dec - 21 Jan
One week before your last frost.
Harvest
20 Apr - 20 May
Quinoa through the year
Against the frost risk in Sultan Pur Majra
Why these dates
Sow direct around the last frost date. Quinoa needs a long season but dislikes hot nights during flowering, which makes a cool upland summer ideal and a hot humid one poor.
Young plants tolerate about -3C, and the mature crop takes light frost while drying down, which is useful at the end of a short season.
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. Quinoa are timed for direct sowing 1 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Sultan Pur Majra.
Nearby
Quinoa in places close by
Also in Sultan Pur Majra
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Growing quinoa in Sultan Pur Majra
When should I plant quinoa in Sultan Pur Majra?
Aim for 31 Dec - 21 Jan in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 6-27 Jan - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will quinoa be ready to harvest in Sultan Pur Majra?
Expect to start picking around 20 Apr - 20 May, based on 110 to 140 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will quinoa tolerate?
Young plants tolerate about -3C, and the mature crop takes light frost while drying down, which is useful at the end of a short season.