Organic Daikon Radish Seeds for Sprouts and Microgreens
Organic Daikon Radish for Sprouts by the Latin name of Raphanus Sativus.
Home-grown Daikon Radish sprouts are fun to cultivate in your own kitchen all year. Your Daikon Radish will grow into Sprouts in 6 days or Microgreens in 12 days.
Both sizes of plants have a nice, strong taste of fresh radish. They very colourful and delicious in salad, sandwiches or as eye catching topping.
40 gram Daikon Radish seeds will grow into 40 handfuls of fresh Radish sprouts or 50 handfuls of crispy microgreens.
You can use both the SproutPearl sprouter or any of the other spouters in this webshop to cultivate these seeds, as Daikon Radish is a very easy seed to cultivate. You should harvest the plants no earlier than after day 6 of the cultivation, when it has developed leaves.
Sprouting Time for organic Daikon Radish
If your kitchen temperature is 18-23 °C / 64-73 °F, then your organic Daikon Radish Sprouts should be ready for harvest after just 6 days of cultivation.
Organic Daikon Radish Seeds
before soaking
Organic Daikon Radish Sprouts
after 3 days
Organic Daikon Radish Sprouts
after 6 days
Organic Daikon Radish Sprouts and Microgreens
Organic Daikon Radish sprouting seeds can be cultivated into both Sprouts and Microgreens in your kitchen all year.
NAMES
Daikon radish, Red and Purple Radish belong to the same bothanical family.
The Latin name for this beautiful variety is Raphanus sativus.
TASTE
Organic Daikon Radish for sprouts has a strong taste of fresh, young summer radishes. So they will easily spice up a dish and should not be eaten on an empty stomach.
LOOKS
Daikon Radish are just 15 cm long as sprouts from root tip to leaf top.
As microgreens they are 20 cm long. They are green and white.
NUTRIENTS
Daikon radish microgreens and sprouts contain the nutrients: A, C, B1, B3, B6, B9 and Copper Magnesium, Folate, Phosphorus, Manganese.
EDIBLE PARTS
Daikon radish sprouts and microgreens form root hairs that resemble mould. Do not worry. They are just roots and eadible at all stages.
TIME
Daikon radish sprouts take 6 days from seed to edible sprout. As microgreens they take 12 days from seed to mature microgreens.
How to grow Organic Diakon Radish Sprouts and Microgreens
1
Measure out the right amount of your organic Daikon radish seeds. Each half of the SproutPearl needs 4 gram seeds.
2
Soak the Daikon Radish seeds in fresh, cold, drinking water in a clean glass for 8 hours. Place the glass in shade.
3
Pour the Organic Daikon Radish seeds into your SproutPearl seed tray after soaking and rinse with clean, cool water.
4
Put the seed tray into the SproutPearl and place it on your clean kitchen counter out of hot sun or cold draft.
5
Rinse your Daikon Radish seeds and plants every morning and evening, until they are at your desired growth stage.
6
Your organic Radish sprouts are mature after 6 days. Your Radish microgreens are ready for harvest after 14 days.
Tips on Organic Diakon Radish Sprouts and Microgreens
MOULD OR ROOTS
All radish variants develop very fine, thin and white roots. These roots look like mould for the first 2-4 days of growth.
But they are only roots and are actually sign, that your sprouts are healthy and have enough moisture.
SMALL AMOUNTS
Your young Organic Daikon Radish for sprouts all contain a lot of taste. One 15 cm long sprout actually have as much taste as a fully grown radish.
So you can benefit from only growing a little Radish at a time as it is possible to do in a SproutPearl sprouter.
Joel –
A great sprout but be careful not to grow too many at the time – they are very strong to the taste 😀