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How to Grow Melon: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

A warm-season vine needing heat and dry ripening weather, pruned to a set number of fruit and cut when the stem starts to crack.

Melon

Cucumis melo

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

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (58)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Bacterial Spot

CommonDisease

Small water-soaked spots appear on the leaves, later turning brown with yellowing around them. Fruit develops water-soaked or scabby spots from which rot spreads.

Powdery MildewFusarium Wilt of CucurbitsMelon Yellow Spot VirusCucurbit Leaf BeetleWatermelon Mosaic VirusCucumber Mosaic VirusZucchini Yellow MosaicGummy Stem BlightCucumber Green Mottle MosaicBacterial WiltLate BlightTomato Spotted WiltBrown Leaf SpotSclerotinia RotBlack RotBlack SpotSouthern BlightAnthracnoseDamping-offBacterial Soft RotRoot-lesion NematodeRoot RotRoot-knot NematodeGray MoldVerticillium WiltLeaf SpotDowny MildewNecrotic SpotWart DiseasePink Mold RotPenicillium RotPhomopsis Root RotMosaic DiseaseSlime MoldMild MottleInternal Fruit RotBacterial Fruit BlotchFusarium Crown and Root RotPlant-parasitic NematodesHairy RootSmudge SpotPhytophthora BlightCharcoal RotWhite Leaf SpotFusarium Wilt and Damping-offPink RootBacterial RotVein YellowingBacterial Brown SpotBrown RotChlorotic YellowsSunken Lesion DiseaseYellow Leaf Curl DisorderYellowsBlack MoldBlack Blemish RotBlack Dot Root Rot

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