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sunflower Sunflower planting

grown by shiny in front garden · Wellington, NZ

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VXW9

Planted 2026-09-17

First harvest expected 2027-01-23

Finish expected 2026-12-21

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Harvest months

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 2 months ago 2026-09-17

Progress

60% day 57 of 95

Quantity

unknown plants

Grown in

not specified

Rating

5 of 5

Short code

VXW9 for plant markers and labels

Parent Seed

sunflower
sunflower

Grown from

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Weather in Wellington, NZ New

Daily high and low
Too cold for sunflower so farFrom Sep 17 to Nov 08, 4 of 53 days had a high inside the best range of 17–34°C. The highs were below the best range on 49 days. The weather was too cold on 3 days (lows below 5°C).
Expected to grow, though not at the fastest, for sunflowerGoing by last year's weather, 14 of the 43 days from Nov 09 to Dec 21 should have a high inside the best range of 17–34°C. The highs could be below the best range on 29 days.
Latest, Nov 08: 16.3°C / 11.8°C2 °C frost lineDies at 0 °CGrows at 5–45°Grows best 17–34°
Daily rainfall
Latest, Nov 08: 1.9 mm

The dotted lines and bars are expected weather, last year's data for the same days moved forward a year. They are not observed.

Rain
128 mm
Hottest day
18.3°C
Coldest night
3.5°C
Soil temperature
12.3°C
Days in its best range
4 of 53
Days
53

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Photos

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Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost danger has passed for this sunflower planting

The latest a frost has come in past years is 1 Oct, 43 days ago. The sunflower planting went in on 17 Sep, 19 days after the usual last frost (29 Aug).

This sunflower planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting so far
  • Planting still to come
Coldest night
4.2 °C
2.2 °C above the 2 °C frost danger line
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct
Next frost danger starts
23 Jun
as early as 4 Jun, 184 days after this sunflower planting finishes
Frost-free season
295 days
in a typical year

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

Harvests

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Jobs

Pull out the stalks

in 3 months
shiny

Cut the flower heads

in 2 months
shiny

Finished

Feed with fertiliser

12 days ago
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Crop

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Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

  • 60 plantings
  • 9 harvests
  • An annual, living about 95 days
  • First harvest about 128 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 129 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun
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