Zingiber mioga
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- Planting Myoga Ginger: Deep Shade, Soil Depth and Rhizome Spacing
- Myoga Ginger Care: Watering, Mulch and Keeping the Clump Cropping
- Myoga Ginger Growing Calendar: A Full Year in the Shade Bed
- Myoga Ginger Problems: Slugs, Bud Rot, Scorched Leaves and Failing Clumps
- Harvesting Myoga Flower Buds: How to Find Them and When to Cut
- Propagating Myoga Ginger by Rhizome Division
Pests and diseases (15)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Bacterial Wilt
Disease
Leaves wilt while still green during the day and recover in the morning and evening; after a few days of this the plant dies. Cut the stem and stand it in water and a milky white bacterial ooze streams out in threads.
Bacterial Soft Rot
Disease
The crown or the head becomes water-soaked and soft, then collapses into a slimy mush. The rotting tissue gives off a distinctive foul odor.
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.