Fruit

Watermelon

📍 Togo

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

Sow Harvest

Sow

Sep – Oct

Harvest

Dec – Apr

Growing period

90 - 120 days

Seeding rate

3 - 4 kg/ha

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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.

Where Watermelon grows in Togo

hill mountain

dry savannah

Relief: pénéplaine corrugated and curiracés mounds, Eaves, forehead and back of Cuesta and depression, pénéplaine alluvial and hills. Soil tropical ferruginous soils in concretion soil leached ferruginous induirés + unsophisticated soil erosion. Pluviométie: 1000 - 1200 mm, mono modal regime single rainy season. Climate: Sudano-Guinean to a single rainy season

Looking for another crop? Browse the full Togo crop calendar or the Watermelon guide for other countries.