The Blooming of the Bolting Radish Plant

I wanted to provide a quick update regarding my radish plants growing on my balcony. I decided to clear the pot of all the radish plants except for the one that was bolting. I wanted to give my green onion plants more space to grow because as of right now I could make better use of the green onions in my food and giving them space in the pot should help encourage their growth. Since plucking out all of the radishes except for the bolting one, that radish plant has started blooming. The radish plant has a nice, small, pink flower. To be more specific each flower is comprised of four pedals that go from a white in the center to pink while creating a nice gradient. Here's a picture of the flower stalk:

German Giant Radish Flowers

I noticed that the plant is producing a lot of flowers. Almost from ever leaf at the stem there appears to be a cluster of flowers forming going up the stalk. That can be seen in the photo above as well. I'm hoping that I might get some seeds from this plant. With all these flowers there must be a fairly good chance?

Currently I'm looking for some other crops I can attempt to grow on my balcony or windowsill. I'm considering some herbs such as basil and mint. We shall see!

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Windowsill Radishes - Day 15

Finally made it to posting about the current day's progress on the day of! The radish plants' growth appears to really be taking off now. I expect I'll start seeing large amounts of growth each day from here on out. I'm really excited to see if bulbs will start forming. That likely won't be for another week or two though (maybe longer). The second set of true leaves on the left plant are definitely apparent in these images. The leaves just look so nice and I'm really enjoying observing the growth each day. Perhaps the next step for me would be doing a time lapse video of growth.

Windowsill Radishes - Day 18

The plants as of 5/2/2020 reached 18 days of growth. That growth has been impressive to me at least. I'm new to growing radishes except I think back in elementary we grew a few radish seeds in a Styrofoam cup of dirt as a science experiment. From what I've read online, I may be looking to fertilize the plants soon. The second set of true leaves have now reached about the same size as the first set were on Day 12. Here's the photos from Day 18.

Infinite Green Onion Hack? Growing Green Onion from the scraps

I'm sure many of you already know this but for those of you that don't, you can take the bottom of the green onions that you buy from the grocery stores and grow more green onion! Green onion is comprised of two basic parts - the stalk or the green portion and the bulb. The bulb is usually white and has some roots growing from the bottom. In order to grow your own green onion from this you don't even need to save the entire white portion. I recommend leaving at least an inch though. once you cut that off, you can use the remaining green onion for consumption. With that portion of the bulb that you saved give it a rinse and remove any peeling, dying skin, and dead roots. This will help prevent rot. There are a few ways you can grow your green onion. The easiest way is to put them in some water. Note that you do not want to submerge the bulb. You only want the bottom root portion to be exposed to water. Letting the entire bulb sit in water will encourage (not what we want in...

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