Daikon

How to grow Daikon growing and care:

Moist, mulch, little cold weather

What is the best way to start growing?
Plant / Seedling / Seed

Is it necessary to graft or use vegetative reproduction?
No

Difficulties or problems when growing:
Need to know when to pick it that the root won’t be fibrous

Planting season:
Autumn-winter – frost free area / Spring – temperate climate

Pests and diseases:
Pieris (butterfly), prodenia (Spodoptera), slugs, delia radicum, cabbage root fly

Pruning season:
All season

How to prune:
No needs

Size of the plant?
Blossom stem 0.5-1 m (20-40 inches), root 10-80 cm (4-32 inches), leaf 20-50 cm (8-20 inches)

Growth speed in optimal condition:
Fast growing / Medium growing

Water requirement:
Average amount of water

Light conditions in optimal condition for growing:
Full Sun / Half Shade

Is it possible to grow indoor as houseplant?
No

Growing is also possible in a planter /flowerpot / containers:
Yes

Blooming information

Bloom season:
Summer

General information about the flower
White-purple flowers grow on inflorescence

Pollination is done by:
Bees, butterfly

Edible leaves

Leaves harvesting season
In cold area spring-summer in frost free autumn-winter

How to harvest the leaves?
Trim the leaves in the base of the leave next to the stem, for salad young leaves for cooked mature leaves, better not to trim the leaves before the root picked up

Information about leaves:
Pinnatisect deep lobes shape leaf with oval top and grow in radial structure, the color green

Uses of Daikon leaves:
Salad, cooked

Edible Roots

Information about roots:
Root edible color is white with peel white-yellow, the shape elongated

When to pull up roots:
In cold area spring-summer in frost free autumn-winter

Uses of Daikon roots:
Eat raw, salad, pickled

Scientific name:

Raphanus sativus