Taro · Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia
When to plant taro in Cochabamba
Main outdoor window
7 Sep - 5 Oct
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
24 August
In Cochabamba, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
31 Mar - 30 Jun
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 Cochabamba
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.
Plant corms
7 Sep - 5 Oct
Two weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
31 Mar - 30 Jun
Taro through the year
Against the frost risk in Cochabamba
Why these dates
No frost tolerance. Needs 200 or more warm frost-free days, so outside the subtropics it rarely finishes.
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. Taro are timed with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Cochabamba.
Hardiness is not the obstacle here. Cochabamba is zone 9b, comfortably inside the range this crop is rated for, so an established plant should come through an average winter without protection.
The median frost-free season here is 269 days, against 200 to 280 days to maturity for this crop counted from sowing. That margin is what decides whether a late sowing is worth attempting.
Also in Cochabamba
Other vegetables to time
Growing taro in Cochabamba
When should I plant taro in Cochabamba?
Aim for 7 Sep - 5 Oct in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 22 Sep - 20 Oct - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will taro be ready to harvest in Cochabamba?
Expect to start picking around 31 Mar - 30 Jun, based on 200 to 280 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will taro tolerate?
No frost tolerance. Needs 200 or more warm frost-free days, so outside the subtropics it rarely finishes.