Grow log by lynnee · Original thread
What you can learnAn excellent controlled radish-light experiment documenting pump failure, nutrient additions, supplemental-light effects, staged harvests, sponge management, flavour, and equipment limits.
*The days were calculated automatically and approximately.
This was such a cool experiment, lynnee! If I grow radishes in my AGs I'll definitely do it this way.
You did well with these buggers. But all good things come to an end ... then we start new ones
WELL... How do they taste!
You did really good with them. Repeating what @fsullom said, How did they taste?
What a fabulous outcome! Awesome idea, lynnee !
They taste like retail radishes, only fresher! They are mildly hot. H says they are 'tangy".The texture is dense, not watery. At some point I need to figure out what the best nutrients might be. These were grown with the Sprout normal 4ml AG nutes every two weeks. Normal for a seed starter is half the label amount of AG nutes.
lynnee, they really turned out well! I will copy your seed starter method the next time I grow radishes. Thanks for discovering the BEST AG method for growing them. i used to watch a great soil gardening vlog. They cautioned against adding nutrients to soil when growing radishes because if you fertilize them, they grow huge tops and the radishes don't need the extra nutrients. So your half strength nutrients were probably on target.
Sher , I actually used full strength nutrients. I figured that they were high growth mode plants rather than germinating seeds. Next time I will try a 3/4 amount of nutrients, per your advice. The leaves did grow larger than the leaves on the same variety grown in a Bounty.What I like about the seed starter is that the radish does most of the work of staying above the deck. The radishes themselves split those sponges!
And it was so much fun to see how they split the sponges, lynnee!
Can you turn the sprout around yo give the other side some sunbathing time?
At Day 21, I'll harvest the big radishes, and leave the others to soak up the extra light. I'm kind of curious to see whether the 10w light is enough, if you're willing to wait longer for your radishes.Next time I'll grow these in a Harvest seed starter, and maybe plant in alternate rows.
You could grow them in a Bounty seed starter and get 50 radishes at a time!
It's day 19, and there are at least 2 radishes that are large enough to harvest. I'm giving them until Monday, though. Photos will come after the first harvest.
They look wonderful
Wow, look at 'em go! This seems to be working well!
That appears to be the best way to grow AG radishes! It's nice getting more than the 6 in a Harvest.
I hope so! I just peeked at the roots, and they're mostly confined to the sponges. With 10 days to go, they haven't filled up the bowl.
Today I figured out why the radishes are growing faster in the left and middle rows of the Sprout seed starter. (You can sort of see this in the photos posted above, but the next photo, in a few days, will show it clearly.)The radishes are stealing light from the Harvest on their left! This suggests that radishes may do best in a Harvest seed starter, which gives 20w rather than 10w. I think it was Sher who expressed doubts about the 10w light in another thread where I floated the idea for this project. Good call!
Looks like they didn't mind the Kratky start at all!
They're powerful radishes! 💪
You can do it, little radishes! Grow!
They are off to a promising start, lynnee!
That is great and here come the radishes
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Ooh good idea! I'll be interested to see how it works out. And I love your little bunny friend!
That bunny IS precious, lynnee. If your radishes do well in the seed starter, I will try some in a Harvest seed starter. That is a great idea.