Daikon · Patiāla, Punjab, India
When to plant daikon in Patiāla
Main outdoor window
5-19 Mar
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
8 January
In Patiāla, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
4-24 May
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Patiāla
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Sow direct
5-19 Mar
Eight weeks after your last frost.
Harvest
4-24 May
Daikon through the year
Against the frost risk in Patiāla
Why these dates
Sow direct eight to ten weeks after the last frost, or better, ten weeks before the first autumn frost. Spring sowings almost always bolt.
Stands to about -8C. In mild climates it holds in the ground all winter.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Daikon are timed for direct sowing 8 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Patiāla.
Also in Patiāla
Other vegetables to time
Growing daikon in Patiāla
When should I plant daikon in Patiāla?
Aim for 5-19 Mar in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 5-19 Mar - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will daikon be ready to harvest in Patiāla?
Expect to start picking around 4-24 May, based on 60 to 80 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will daikon tolerate?
Stands to about -8C. In mild climates it holds in the ground all winter.