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Lobelia Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A compact annual with masses of small blue or white flowers, used in hanging baskets and along bed edges in cool seasons.

Lobelia

Lobelia erinus

Growing calendar

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

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Guides

Pests and diseases (3)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

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.

Mosaic Disease

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