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Will rice go bad if not harvested on time?

Nikolaj Vinicoff

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Before I left Senegal in August, I managed to plant about 30-40m2 of rice in my home rice paddy which soaks in all the runoff water from the road after it being channeled through swales. We're now in January! That's 5 months. I want to be back on site myself to harvest the rice, that was my whole point of planting it, but when will it be too late? Will it spoil?

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It may mold or sprout if wet, but will absolutely get eaten by birds.

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Better hurry back then !

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I had a friend of mine in the area swing by and show me the rice paddy on a video call. Everything I planted seems to be growing fantastically, except for the rice. Either the birds got to it, the weeds overgrew it, or it was stuck for too long under the hot sun once the rainy season ended in November. Will be back soon and might post a little video to this thread.

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5 months was too long. Rice didn't make it.

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I'm sorry to hear that.

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There’s always next year. A lesson from this is as follows: “I want to be there to harvest it, at all costs”… well, you might be lucky and get back to harvest it, or you may get lucky and get back to cut the dead rice away, OR you could take a loss of harvesting it yourself but at least have the rice when you come back. I’ll try again next year. Thankfully, everything else is growing really well

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