 hi there and welcome to my channel. In today's video I'm very excited to share with you my first harvest of radishes. So these radishes I've been growing hydroponically using the cracky method. So they are growing in water. I have used a perlite as the medium that I started these in. It's been about I think 25 days since since I planted them and they are looking like they're bursting out of this container. So we are going to harvest them, give them a taste and hopefully they're going to be good. So I'm also going to try planting up some more. So stay tuned and let's start harvesting some radishes. So I wanted to make sure that you can see the camera here how big they are getting. It looks like they've you know got some nice ball shape size to them. At least some of them do. I can't recall how many I planted. I think there was nine seeds. So I as I said this batch of lettuce and radishes in this container I used for the first time perlite as my medium to plant these in and I really did not like it as you can see it's spilled all over when I was spritzing these to kind of keep them moist. Kind of splatters this perlite all over the place and didn't really hold the the plants very firmly because I noticed my one lettuce here kind of came loose. So it's not a very good growing medium and I won't use it again. But it looks like we have some radishes here and I am going to just pull them all out. We'll check out the size and have a taste. So I said I think I planted about nine of them. So it's not super huge. That one definitely not very big. I'm not sure I could have maybe left them longer and let them fill out a bit more. The leaves were starting to block out the light on the other lettuces in this container so I thought maybe it was time to harvest. That's just a skinny little one. They're not bad. Almost better luck than I have outdoors in this in the summer. I have a hard time growing radishes outdoors. These seem to get woody or get wormy really fast. So these ones looking not too bad. So as you can see the perlite is sticking to the roots and this is going to be an ugly mess to clean up. So I think the next batch I'm going to use something different to plant these in. So I'm just gonna clean these up and we will cut one up and have a taste. Okay so I have these radishes all washed up now and here they are. They are beautiful. I'm really happy with you know the size of these and the roots are nice and healthy looking. Nice green stalks on them. So I'm definitely gonna keep growing these again. So I thought we will try tasting them first of all to see if they how they taste. These are a heirloom radish seed called a scarlet globe. They are 20 to 25 days from seed to harvest and they are supposed to be crisp and crunchy with a delicate flavor. So let's give it a try. I'm gonna take the very best one and try it out. My husband likes to eat these just you know raw with a meal. I like to have them in my green salads, in my potato salad or macaroni salad. Okay so the inside is nice and white. See that? We'll give it a try. Not bad. There's not a lot of... they're not very spicy or hot like some some radishes are. They're quite mild tasting a little bit sweet and not even a really strong spicy after taste that you sometimes get when you have radishes. So not bad. So I also have this kind of radish seed here that is I think by the description here would be a little more of a spicy type radish. It says it's for the spicy individual. So these are called the sparkler white tip. So I think the next round I'm gonna try planting these and see how they taste. So I said this one is pretty mild and not really not really a whole lot of flavor. So I can say it's not bad but it's not it's not what I expected the radish to be. I thought it'd be a little bit more bite to it but anyways these are gonna go into the next salad. Very excited. And so I'm gonna clean up this container and as you can see I I have lettuces going in this container as well that I planted the same time as the radishes. So they are still growing obviously and have a ways to go. So I'm gonna try and clean up this container. Like I said I will not use perlite anymore for my crack key hydroponics. I'm gonna probably work with some hydrogen clay balls on the base of the container with some coca core as the growing medium to grow the next round of radishes. Okay so I have this already now to plant up some more radish seeds. I've actually took a couple of these that weren't doing so well in the perlite the lettuces that I had going here. So I took them out as well. I also dumped out the water just because there was so much perlite and stuff floating in there. It was just driving me crazy. I didn't want to keep looking at that mess so I refreshed the water and the nutrients that I put in here are the root farm two part. So the base and the all-purpose is what I usually use for my lettuces and I've always had really good success with that. So we're gonna try the spicy or sparkler white tip this time and as I was cleaning this up and munching on the rest of those radish that radish that I had cut up it actually did start to leave kind of a nice spicy aftertaste. So they are they did have a bit of a bite to them but it just didn't hit you quite as fast as sometimes radishes can. So I'm going to go with the same number of seeds in here. I'm gonna try and jam in about nine or ten. So as I said I got a couple inches of the clay balls in this cup and then the rest is coconut core. Okay so I think I did not keep track but I think I planted about ten. So I've just used a seedling pot that I you know got from the nursery with a seedling plant cut some extra slits on the side so that it absorbs water. It's got lots of holes on the bottom. So these are romaine lettuce that I have started on this side. I'm going to plant up some butter crunch lettuce in these two containers here. So usually morning and night until these germinate and start getting some roots that are reaching the water I just keep the top moist with a spray bottle. So check on it. Day and night give it a good soaking. So this is going to grow under the grow lights now. I believe these are also 25 days to maturity so keep checking back on future videos to see how these radishes turn out.