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Freesia Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A fragrant corm planted in autumn for spring flowers, grown in pots or mild-winter beds and often used for cutting.

Freesia

Freesia spp.

Growing calendar

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

Sow / plantGrowingFlowering

Guides

Pests and diseases (10)

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.

Root-knot Nematode

Pest

The plant wilts in the daytime and does not recover with feeding or watering. Pull it up and the roots carry beaded chains of galls of varying size with few fine roots.

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 SpotScale Tip RotBotrytis DiseaseMosaic DiseaseBulb RotFusarium Wilt and Damping-offNeck Rot

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