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Winged Bean Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A tropical climbing legume trained up netting, picked young for its four-ridged pods from late summer into autumn.

Winged Bean

Psophocarpus tetragonolobus

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 (6)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Sclerotinia Rot

Disease

The crown, stem or head rots in a water-soaked way and is covered in white cottony mycelium. Black sclerotia later form inside and on the surface, and the plant wilts and dies.

Southern Blight

Disease

The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrounding soil surface. Brown sclerotia the size of rapeseed then form and the plant wilts and dies rapidly.

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.

Fruit RotBrown RotRed Blister Blight

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