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Proso Millet Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A quick summer grain maturing in about three months, sown after frost and cut when the drooping heads turn golden.

Proso Millet

Panicum miliaceum

Growing calendar

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

Sow / plantGrowingHarvest

Guides

Pests and diseases (13)

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.

Leaf Spot

Disease

Small round brown to gray-white lesions appear on the lower leaves, the centers turning gray with tiny black specks. As they multiply the leaf yellows and drops early.

Rice BlastBlack-streaked DwarfMosaic DiseaseRound SpotBacterial Leaf StreakPlant-parasitic NematodesWhite Spot Leaf BlightSheath BlightLeaf BlightElongated Leaf SpotSmut

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