Radish splitting.

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  1. rustyroots

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    Hi All,

    I have planted French Breakfast and Scarlett Globe radishes and they are now big enough to eat. The French Breakfast are fine, but some of the Scarlett Globe are split when i pick them. Any ideas what can cause this? Am i doing something wrong?

    Rusty
     
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  2. Steve R

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    Isn't this caused by eratic watering?

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    same here, all the globes have split and french breakfast are all ok
     
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    I'm glad we're not the only ones who can't grow radish - ours are dismal failure!
     
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    I've seen pictures before of split radish, but the person never said it wasn't normal. So I'm not sure what's right and wrong, to be fair.
     
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    Hi.

    I believe this is caused by sudden rapid growth. Imo, this may well have been caused by the sudden recent rise in temperatures.

    Cheers...Freddy
     
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    Glad I don't have 10 hectares of them
     
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