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Chill Hours

Know your winter chill before you plant

Deciduous fruit trees need a set amount of winter cold to fruit well. Chill Hours tracks how much cold your region gets and tells you whether a variety will thrive where you live, before you spend money on a tree that will sulk.

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What it does, and why it is better

Buy a high-chill apple for warm Northland and it may never fruit properly. Buy a low-chill peach for Central Otago and you waste its potential. Chill Hours brings real winter-cold figures to your region and matches them to the trees you want to grow, so you plant varieties that will actually crop.

How to use it in three steps

1

Pick your region

Chill Hours uses cold figures tuned to your part of New Zealand, north to south.

2

Check a variety

See the chill a tree needs against what your area provides before you buy.

3

Plant with confidence

Choose varieties that will fruit where you live, and skip the ones that will not.

How it connects to the rest of your patch

Chill Hours feeds your fruit growing. The trees you pick drop into the fruit and perennials journal so you can track their care and yield year after year, and into the garden planner and yard map so you place them where they belong.

Come spring, their blossom shows up in the bloom calendar for your bees, and the fruit they set rolls into your harvest dashboard. One cold-season check that pays off for years.

Plant fruit trees that crop

Free to start. Works offline. Built for New Zealand. Go Pro from $4.99 a month for the full toolkit.

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