Panicum miliaceum
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- Sowing Proso Millet: Warm Soil, Shallow Seed and a Stand That Comes Up Level
- Caring for Proso Millet: Watering a Drought Crop, Feeding Lightly and Preventing Lodging
- Proso Millet Growing Calendar: A Seventy-Day Grain From Warm Soil to Cured Head
- Proso Millet Problems: Birds, Smut, Lodging, Seedling Weakness and Shattering Losses
- Harvesting Proso Millet: Cutting at Two Thirds Hard Before the Head Shatters
- Hilling Proso Millet: Mounding Soil to Brace Slender Stems Against Lodging
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.