Egyptian Star Cluster Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

Pentas lanceolata

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• Raising Pentas: Sowing Fine Seed and Rooting Cuttings That Take Easily
• Pentas Care: Keeping Egyptian Star Cluster Flowering Through Real Heat
• Deadheading and Cutting Back Pentas for Continuous Flower Clusters
• Overwintering Pentas: Frost Tolerance, Bringing Plants In and Cuttings
• Pentas Through the Year: What to Do at Each Stage of the Season
• Pentas Problems: Spider Mites, Aphids and Yellow Leaves in Hot Weather

Pests and diseases (2)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.