Radish in Florida
 

I grow mostly tomatoes, but once in a while I plant some radish seed. Most do well but some fail to form a radish. I have had some monster leaves grow. This one seems to be doing well.

What variety are you growing?

That's 8-)

I tried to grow some a couple of winters ago, none bulbed up. You must be doing something right. I used to have an uncle who lived in Princeton, Florida, visited in 1966. Saw plenty of citrus and avacados but missed other crops.

Looks like you have enough leaves there to pick some and have in a salad. They look good and mighty tasty.

Usually when my radishes don't bulb up it is because there is not enough sand in the soil mixture or the ground. To me, it's like the bulb part gets tired of trying to push the soil out of the way to grow and you end up with just salad leaves.

Hope you get a great big fat, good to eat radish. : )

Make sure it has enough potassium.

I grow "a lot" of radishes in containers - southern florida

Give them a good soaking of 20-20-20 + micro nutrients liquid fert once a week!

I'm told that too much nitrogen will do that. The medium I am using is 3 year old ProMix BX. Almost worn out.

[QUOTE=Stvrob;454340]What variety are you growing?[/QUOTE]
Crimson Giant.

I agree with Starlight - radish greens are often overlooked, either young and raw, or older and stir-fried. Treat them like kale or collards; they're great! I'm not sure I've got any insight on bulbing or not. I know they like it cool, and with plenty of moisture.

I've also heard boron can cause failure to bulb up.
Radish pods are my favorite part of the radish and good bugs love the flowers, too.

The honeybees like the flowers but I have a lot of cabbage butterflies that will feed there so I try not to let them blossom.
I had never heard of using the leaves in a salad, the Black Spanish variety has large leaves, as big as kale leaves, will try some this year.