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Setaria italica
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- Sowing Foxtail Millet: Soil Temperature, Depth, Seeding Rate and Catch-Crop Timing
- Foxtail Millet Care: Watering a Shallow-Rooted Grain, Nitrogen Limits and Preventing Lodging
- Foxtail Millet Growing Calendar: Sowing to Harvest in Under Three Months
- Foxtail Millet Problems: Birds, Lodging, Smut, Rust and Volunteer Seedlings
- Harvesting Foxtail Millet: Reading the Nodding Head, Cutting, Threshing and the Hulling Problem
Common problems
Start from what you can see on the plant.
Pests and diseases (27)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Sclerotinia Rot
Disease
The crown, stem or head rots in a water-soaked way and is covered in white cottony mycelium. Black sclerotia later form inside and on the surface, and the plant wilts and dies.
Rust
Disease
Small raised orange-yellow to red-brown pustules form on both leaf surfaces, then rupture and release powdery spores. Heavy infection yellows the leaves and kills them early.
Southern Blight
Disease
The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrounding soil surface. Brown sclerotia the size of rapeseed then form and the plant wilts and dies rapidly.
Damping-off
Disease
The stem pinches in at soil level, turning water-soaked to brown and thin, and the seedling topples over. Infection before emergence makes the stand uneven with missing plants.
Leaf Spot
Disease
Small round brown to gray-white lesions appear on the lower leaves, the centers turning gray with tiny black specks. As they multiply the leaf yellows and drops early.
