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

A grain grown in flooded soil, raised from seedlings in spring and drained before the autumn harvest; possible in a tub at home.

Rice

Oryza sativa

Growing calendar

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

Sow / plantGrowingHarvest

Guides

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (97)

Late BlightBrown Leaf SpotSouthern BlightSooty MoldDamping-offRoot-lesion NematodeRoot-knot NematodeLeaf SpotRice BlastNecrotic MosaicHalo BlightSouthern Corn Leaf BlightSasara Leaf BlightRusty Sclerotial RotNarrow Brown Leaf SpotNorthern Corn Leaf BlightRhizoctonia Foot RotFalse BlastGray Kernel MoldBakanaeGlume BlightBacterial Grain RotGlume DiscolorationDwarf DiseaseOrange LeafPotassium DeficiencyCalcium DeficiencyGrassy StuntSilicon DeficiencyCyst NematodeCinnamon MoldRice TungroTransitory YellowingMuddy Kernel DisorderBrachysporium Leaf DiseaseManganese DeficiencyUdbatta DiseaseRice Ragged StuntPalea BrowningSouthern Rice Black-streaked DwarfKernel SmutStem Rot of RiceSmall Black Sclerotium RotWhite Tip NematodeBacterial Leaf StreakCrown BlightCrown RotPlant-parasitic NematodesGray BlotchGray Sclerotial RotGray Leaf BlightSpherical Sclerotium RotWhite HeadBacterial Leaf BlightWhite LeafEyespot Leaf SpotSeed RotRice False SmutBlack Grain of PanicleFusarium Wilt and Damping-offSheath BlightPhytophthora BlightStriped Rice DisorderRice StripeBacterial Seedling BlightSeedling RotMagnesium DeficiencyBrown Pod DisorderStunt DiseaseSheath Net BlotchSheath Brown RotSheath Brown SpotWhite Leaf Tip BlightLeaf BlightLeaf Node Brown RotSheath RotBrown StripeAscochyta BlightBrown Sclerotium PatchBrown Sheath BlightBrown Sclerotial RotBrown Leaf BlightBrown Leaf Blight DisorderFusarium Head BlightRed StripeRed BlightRed Sclerotium PatchUpland Rice Replant DisorderGreen Wilt DisorderGreen Stem DisorderYellow DwarfYellow BlightBarley Yellow DwarfBlack Grain SmutBlack-streaked DwarfBlackening DiseaseBlack Sclerotium Rot

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Type the plant name, add the planting date, and take photos as it grows. Next season you will have your own dates for sowing, flowering, and harvest instead of a generic calendar.

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