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

Sorghum bicolor

Growing calendar

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

Guides

• Sowing Sorghum: Soil Temperature, Depth and Spacing for Grain, Syrup or Broom
• Caring for Sorghum: Watering Through Drought, Feeding, Tillers and Keeping It Standing
• Sorghum Growing Calendar: From Warm-Soil Sowing to Grain, Syrup or Broom Harvest
• Sorghum Problems: Prussic Acid in Young Growth, Aphids, Birds and Head Molds
• Harvesting Sorghum: Judging Grain Ripeness, Cutting Heads by Hand and Pressing Cane

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (31)

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