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Persian Violet Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A compact summer pot plant covered in small scented blue flowers, usually grown as an annual indoors.

Persian Violet

Exacum affine

Growing calendar

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

Sow / plantFlowering

Guides

Pests and diseases (4)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Gray Mold

Disease

Water-soaked brown lesions form on flowers, fruit and leaves, densely covered by a fuzzy gray mold. Fruit rots and drops, and decay continues in storage after harvest.

Necrotic MottleCrown BlightStunt Disease

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