🍒 Cherry Radish
The fastest starter crop. Loves cool weather, shrugs off light frost.
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: