Freesia spp.
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- How to Plant Freesia Corms in Pots and in the Ground
- Freesia Care: Watering, Feeding and Holding Up Floppy Stems
- Why Freesia Grows Leaves but No Flowers, and How to Fix It
- Freesia After Flowering: Drying Off and Storing the Corms
- Freesia Growing Calendar: Planting, Flowering and Resting
- Freesia Problems: Aphids, Rot, Collapsing Stems and Blind Corms
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.