We have a new official heaviest radish on record, as of the beginning of this year.
“The heaviest radish weighs 45.865 kg (101 lb 1.8 oz) and was grown by Manda Fermentation Co., Ltd. (Japan) as verified at HAKKO Park in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan, on 22 February 2023.
Manda Fermentation Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer of supplements and special fertilizers made from fermented botanical raw ingredients, and they grow giant radishes every year using their technology. The regular radish is harvested in 3 months, but this particular radish was harvested after 6. It had a circumference of 113 cm, and the root length was 80cm.”
The largest radish cultivar I’m aware of is the Sakurajima daikon, of which we’ll be planting some seeds in 2024. This new record-breaker probably had those genetics.
We don’t usually get radishes larger than about three pounds from the regular daikon varieties we plant. We also don’t have a great radish-growing climate, as the summer gets too hot too fast.
We’ll have to try anyhow, though.
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Sakurajima radish – I have grown it in East Central Florida zone 10A. The plants have circular leaves off stems; these are the easiest radish greens to strip off the stem, vs other radishes. (Radish greens are edible – milder flavor than turnip greens; try them sometime. The greens can also be pickled. The stems are tough; technically they are edible – can be used for soup stock, and for raw-fooders can be juiced._
I did not try to grow huge radishes; I harvested them when about 2 pounds. The radishes have an inner part – that is very delicious, sweet, and pungent. I did not eat the outer part.
By the way Sakurajima is the name of an island/volcano near the Southern tip of Kyushu in Japan.
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