How to Grow Four O'Clock Flower: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Mirabilis jalapa

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• Sowing Four O'Clock Seeds: Soaking, Depth, Soil Temperature and Spacing
• Four O'Clock Care: Space, Water and Keeping a Shrub-Sized Plant in Bounds
• Why Four O'Clock Flowers Open in the Afternoon and Are Gone by Morning
• Four O'Clock Year: What to Do From Sowing to Lifting the Tubers
• Four O'Clock Pests and Problems: Beetles, Mites, Leaf Spot and Toxic Seeds
• How to Propagate Four O'Clocks: Saving Seed, Dividing Tubers and Taking Cuttings

Pests and diseases (3)

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