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

Citrus junos

Growing calendar

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

GrowingHarvest

Guides

Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Wilting Yellow leaves Leaves dying White powder Leaf spots Pests Fruit problems Poor growth

Pests and diseases (122)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Citrus Leafminer

MajorPest

Silvery winding mines run through newly expanded young leaves, which crinkle and roll inward, with a translucent larva at the head of the mine. It does not attack hardened spring leaves and concentrates on shoots growing from summer into autumn.

Scale Insects Longhorn Beetles Citrus Melanose Sooty Mold Mealybugs Iron Deficiency Leafrollers Stink Bugs Crown Gall Fruit Borers Bagworms Powdery Mildew Late Blight Bacterial Canker Sclerotinia Rot Black Rot Black Spot Southern Blight Anthracnose Damping-off Root-lesion Nematode Gray Mold Bacterial SpotCrown GummosisStem PittingWart DiseaseSmudgeAspergillus RotScaly BarkArtist's Conk Heart RotBlack Leaf MoldFlyspeckScabFreckleWitches' BroomArmillaria Root RotFalse Yellow SpotWhisker MoldCalyx End RotBoron DeficiencyGummosis of FruitScale Skin DisorderViroid DiseaseExocortisPotassium DeficiencyHuanglongbingConcave GumGummosisStem PittingPsorosisDothiorella GummosisNatsudaidai DwarfNavel Orange Infectious MottlingFusarium WiltFusarium RotFusarium Stem-end RotVein EnationMagnesium DeficiencyManganese DeficiencyManganese ToxicityMosaic DiseaseMolybdenum DeficiencyZinc DeficiencyCircular Sooty SpotRound Leaf SpotAnomalous Growth DisorderSmall Black SpeckTrunk RotGraft Union DisorderSunscaldDark BlotchBlossom End Ripe RotBlossom End RotBlossom End BrowningTwig BlightBranch GummosisCitrus NematodeShoot BlightPlant-parasitic NematodesGummosisWatery RotSatsuma DwarfGray Felt FungusBacterial Fever BlightWhite MoldWhite Root RotWhite Felt FungusWhite Round Leaf SpotAlgal Leaf SpotStony Fruit DisorderPink RotViolet Root RotGreen MoldGreen Spot DisorderBacterial RotAnthina Root RotBrown Felt Sooty SpotPetiole DiseaseMesophyll CollapseTiger Stripe DisorderFruit CrackingBacterial Brown SpotBrown Spot Defoliation DisorderBrown Felt FungusBrown Root RotBrown RotElephant SkinRed Pustule DiseasePink DiseaseSilver SkinCopper DeficiencyBlue MoldBlue-green MoldYellowing and Leaf Drop DisorderYellow Leaf SpotYellow Mottle LeafBlack WartBlack MoldAlternaria Black SpotBlack Twig BlightBlack Ball Rot

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