Radish sprouts in 2 days !

This is my first year for a Fall SFG and I am amazed how fast my radish sprouted. From seed to sprouts it only took 2 days! This is my second time planting them this year because, I think it was to hot in August for them to sprout. I planted 2 squares and it looks like 95% sprouted. I hope the rest of my garden does that well!

Congrats

I just planted last night & would be could if I saw something Monday

talk about immediate gratification! That's my kind of gardening!

(PS - Acara - I love your photo/avatar!)

How about lettuce sprouts in three days? Bok Choi in five? After adding some compost to these squares, these were the results. Since my own batch isn't yet "cooked," I used E.B. Stone Planting Compost, worm castings, and E.B. Stone Top Coat, consisting of composted wood products and mushroom compost.

Yahtzee ... I got sprouts too !!!!

First plant from a seed since I was 6 !!

What the heck do I do now >>>>LOL

Go acara, go!!!

Megan wrote: Go acara, go!!!

It seems the gardening gods have chosen to favor the idiot today and hath smiled opon me!

Craziness !!!!

Go acara!

I let one of my radishes "go" when it bolted this spring. Silly thing ended up with stems over 4 feet tall. It had really pretty, small fuschia-colored blossoms. Lots of them, too! Who knew.....

Acara, how do you intend to transplant those into your garden? Radishes really don't like to be transplanted. My concern is the plastic webbing that surrounds the peat pots, I am not sure the radish roots can grow out of that.

Furbalsmom wrote:Acara, how do you intend to transplant those into your garden? Radishes really don't like to be transplanted. My concern is the plastic webbing that surrounds the peat pots, I am not sure the radish roots can grow out of that.

Ahh ...the joy of "the accidental gardener".....sometimes stuff grows despite the gardener being dumber than a bag of hammers.

To answer your question.....I have no idea. I realized the same thing about 2 hours after I saw they sprouted.

Tenatively, I think I'm going to remove the webbing with tweezers and a a modelling knife, transplant them & hope for the best. I was also considering cutting out the bottom & cutting a single vertical slit down the entire length (height) of the webbing, in order to allow it to "open" as the radish gains diameter.


But I'm open to other suggestions.

I still wondering on the "when". The "instructions" say transplant "X" days after they sprout, but they sprouted early & I think I have what's described as 2-true leaves (?). I might try to transplant them in the next couple of days.

Again ... this is my first attempt at seeds since I was 6 .... so I'm already farther ahead than I ever imagined ....LOL

Roots are pretty powerful, and the webbing isn't as strong as you think. I'd handle the peat pots as little as possible so as not try not to disturb the seedlings. If you are worried about it, you could cut a slit in the bottom or tweeze off a piece of the bottom.

If you're concerned whether they will survive the transplant, you could also just plant some more seeds in the ground... they too should sprout in just a couple days.

Well it's either fixed or they'll croak.

One of the jiffy-pods looked like a root was trying to push out the bottom, so I transplanted them.

5-6 days (5 probably would have been better) seems to be the magic number to "right the wrong". None of the roots poked through or were exposed, membrane came off easily and peat balls stayed together nicely when I removed the membrane.

I packed them gently in some MM that I left in the sun today to dry out, so that it was fine/loose/powdey and compacted/rewet it with an eyedropper on each planting, to pack it and eliminate air pockets between the peatballs and the dirt.

We'll see how they do.

p.s. Megan, you were right ... I think the roots & developing radish would have blown right through that membrane with no problem ....... should have just dropped them right in their new location ...... hindsight is 20/20

I had a picture in my mind of you gently placing them in their new bed, using an eyedropper to water them in and almost fell out of my chair.

Sorry if I was so far off base regarding the peat pods and transplanting, but my seed packs and articles I have read regarding plantings of radishes all said direct sow outside. Now I really want to know how they do over the next couple of weeks.

Did they really have true leaves already? You photo from a few days ago showed the seed leaves that come before the true leaves. Though with that crack cuke you have, it seems like your crops are just amazing.

Yeah ... but I'm a newb SFG person, so I gravitate to what I know (bonsai, topiary & orchids).

The eyedropper is a bonsai trick for getting small amounts of soil/media where you want it, without traumatizing/damaging roots (or washing out the growing media with the water pressure).

I've seen all the same warnings about radishes (not to transplant), but not until after I had already goofed.

What can I say .... it was an insomnia night, I found the seed package and the jiffy pots in the garage from one of my daughters old school projects & I figured what the heck else was there to do at 3am, without waking the rest of the house up.

Not one of my brightest moments or best-planned adventures.

As far as the "true leaves" ... heck if I know ... they were green & I was pretty sure they weren't fruit, flowers, stems or roots .... so by process of elimination, I went with it