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Pak Choi Variety Selector: Which One For Your Garden

Every recommendation below traces back to our full Pak Choi varieties comparison — this page is the fast route to one answer for your specific situation, no clicking through required.

If: The hardiest, most reliable all-rounder → Yes, I'd rather avoid varieties that list it or Pushing a crop through a hot or dry spell

Summer Breeze

Worth choosing instead of Glacier if you're specifically pushing a crop through an unusually warm or dry patch, since it's resistant to both heat and cold. It's also the only variety of the four with no damp-driven disease listed at all, and the only one that doesn't list club root. It's AGM-listed only on RHS's general pak choi page, not on its own individual plant page.

If: The hardiest, most reliable all-rounder → No, or not sure or The hardiest, most reliable all-rounder → Not sure, just give me the safest all-round choice or Not sure, just give me the safest all-round choice

GlacierAGM

The strongest all-round choice for Scotland: it's the hardiest of the four (H5, down to -15C), bred to suit the British climate specifically, with slower bolting and a longer cropping season. It carries the AGM directly on its own page. Its disease list (downy mildew, white blister, club root) is worth weighing against Scotland's damp summers, but the hardiness and bolt-resistance are what make it the safest default.

If: Colour and variety in the plot

Red ChoiAGM

The pick if you want a genuinely different-looking crop: dark red to purple leaves on top with green undersides over fleshy green stems, not just a marketing variant. It carries the AGM on its own page. The trade-off is its own cultivation note specifically flags watering, "keep well-watered to avoid bolting", so treat consistent watering as slightly more important with this one.

If: One well-timed summer sowing rather than successive batches

Choko F1

Mainly worth choosing for its narrower sowing/harvest window: May-August direct-sow, harvesting June-October, versus the crop's general February-to-October range, which suits a single well-timed summer sowing rather than successive batches. Its pest list also names birds specifically, alongside the usual brassica pests. It's AGM-listed only on RHS's general pak choi page, not on its own individual plant page.

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