Cilantro Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Coriandrum sativum

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

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Guides

Pests and diseases (7)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Aphids

MajorPest

Small green or black insects cluster on shoot tips and leaf undersides, crinkling the leaves and stopping growth. The honeydew they excrete supports sooty mold that blackens the foliage.

Bolting

MajorDisorder

A flower stalk rises from the center of the plant and the leaves turn tough and stringy, spoiling eating quality. Heading vegetables run to seed without ever forming a head.

Brown Leaf Spot

CommonDisease

Small light brown to gray-brown spots form on the leaves and enlarge into irregular lesions. When they merge the whole leaf dies and plant vigor drops sharply.

Bacterial Soft Rot

CommonDisease

The crown or the head becomes water-soaked and soft, then collapses into a slimy mush. The rotting tissue gives off a distinctive foul odor.

Bacterial Spot

CommonDisease

Small water-soaked spots appear on the leaves, later turning brown with yellowing around them. Fruit develops water-soaked or scabby spots from which rot spreads.

Plectosphaerella RotCrown Blight

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.