will my lone giant radish produce seeds?

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veeja3 Renton, WA(Zone 7a) Sep 08, 2005

I had three seeds ate two of the radishes, I am letting this last one go to seed anyone know if the seeds will be fertile?

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Agrinerd Franklin, NC(Zone 6b) Sep 08, 2005

I just did a search and found conflicting information, but as long as you get seed pods, then you should have fertile seeds. Radishes don't out-cross with anything but radishes, so unless you had some other varieties or wildlings blooming nearby, they should come true to variety. The only real problem you may have is getting the seed stalk to mature before a hard freeze.

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veeja3 Renton, WA(Zone 7a) Sep 09, 2005

Thankyou, here is its pic it has about twice as much root underground, see why I want seeds

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CountryGardens Lewisville, MN(Zone 4a) Sep 09, 2005

Leave it alone, plow it down next spring, you will have radishes everywhere. If you save them, who knows.
We had some Korean radish 2 years ago. Didn't like them. They are still producing new plants as of a month ago.
Some radish is a weed in some areas, especially in small grains.
Bernie

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veeja3 Renton, WA(Zone 7a) Sep 10, 2005

Thankyou for your help, I don't know that this is a korean radish
someone just gve me seeds and said they were giant radish seed, they taste like a regular radish a tiny bit hot but late in season to grow them here.

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Agrinerd Franklin, NC(Zone 6b) Sep 10, 2005

Wow, that's a monster! Is it blooming yet? It shouldn't become a weed problem if you collect the seeds before they shatter.

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heycharlie San Jacinto County, TX(Zone 8a) Sep 14, 2005

Each year I plant radish seeds over much of my garden for tha many advantages.
Although I save seed, there are always many that get away before I pull them.
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I've had greens, turnip, & tha radish appear year after year in all tha odd places lol.

Never to worry I say. They get tilled in or hoed out as the case may be.
IF they come up in tha rite-place I'm planting more there anyway.

I find it very hard to tell radish, greens seed etc from each other.
I mark them well.....

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