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My first harvest - french breakfast radish

10 years ago

Just could not restrain myself to share with you all my first harvest of french breakfast radishes. Thank you all of you for your suggestions and replies to all my questions. I am a complete garden newbee and I am so excited right now.

I also have a question. This radishes were from burpee french breakfast seed packet. However a few of them seems to be different variety than the rest. Can anyone tell me the name of the varieties? There is one white one and 2-3 purple ones, which are a bit bigger than the french breakfast radishes.

Thanks again.
Sam.

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farmerdill
10 years ago
These are open pollinated so probably just normal variations. Few vendors stress seed purity for OP's anymore. Burpee buys them for resale so no telling who grew the seed stock.
jimster
10 years ago
I''m a fan of French Breakfast too. I get good results even when the weather is on the warm side.

I agree with farmerdill that what you are seeing is likely normal variation. Also, the amount of variation may differ from one seed source to another.

Jim
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Anne Wolfley
10 years ago
What a fantastic harvest! And nice job cleaning them off, too. :-) Enjoy the radish yumminess.

There's an all-white (non-daikon) radish called white icicle. As already mentioned, there was possibly some cross pollination and perhaps white icicle was one of the parents.
ill_gardener
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks all of you for the replies. I never thought about the cross pollination thing. So much to learn.

@ annew, it took a while to wash and clean them, but it was worthwhile :)

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