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Almond vs Chestnut

Both are Nut. Each axis is a percentile across all 538 crops — 80 means higher than four-fifths of the table. Where an axis is missing, the crop genuinely is not measured that way.

Almond Chestnut

Measure Almond Chestnut
Season Perennial Perennial
Sowing window Dec–Jan (planting) Jan–Feb
Days to harvest 4–5 yr to bear 5–7 yr
Spacing 6 × 6 m 10 × 10 m
Soil pH 6.0–7.5 5.0–6.5
Water 700–1000 800–1200
Temperature °C 10–28 10–24
Seed rate 270 plants Nursery
Yield 1.5–2 t 2–3 t
Watch for Leaf blight, hairy caterpillar Blight, weevil

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