🍒 Cherry Radish
The fastest starter crop. Loves cool weather, shrugs off light frost.
Cherry Radish at a glance
Is Cherry Radish frost tolerant?
Yes, through light frosts. Damage starts at -2°C and it is killed below -6°C.
What temperature does Cherry Radish grow best in?
It grows best between 8 and 25°C. Below 5°C it stops growing altogether, and above 28°C it slows down.
How many days does Cherry Radish take to mature?
About 25–35 days. That is a typical figure: it needs roughly 300 °C·d of warmth above 5°C, so a warm season gets it there sooner and a cool one later. The city calendars below give the sow and harvest dates for each place.
Is Cherry Radish a cool-season or warm-season crop?
A cool-season crop. It does best in the mild weather of spring and autumn, and slows down in summer heat above 28°C.
What the numbers mean
These are the actual parameters this game runs on. Growth is driven by growing degree days: each day contributes max(0, min(mean temp, 30) − 5), and Cherry Radish is ready when that total reaches 300. That is why the same seed takes a very different number of days in Dublin and in Guangzhou.
| Base temperature | 5°CBelow this, the plant accumulates no growing degree days at all. |
|---|---|
| Degree days to maturity | 300 °C·dThe heat budget it must accumulate before it is ready to pick. |
| Comfortable range | 8–25°CWhere it grows without stress. |
| Frost damage below | -2°CLeaves start taking frost damage below this low. |
| Killed below | -6°CBelow this it does not come back. |
| Heat stress above | 28°CAbove this the plant slows down and stops setting fruit well. |
| Typical time to harvest | 25–35 days |
| Yield per bed | 12 radishes |
Things worth knowing
- From sowing to harvest in as little as 20 days — one of the fastest vegetables on Earth.
- The peppery bite comes from mustard oils: the hotter and drier the weather, the spicier the radish.
Where and when to sow Cherry Radish
Pick your city to see the months when Cherry Radish scores well against that city's real climate records: