bolting in cauliflower - GARDENING
The Greeley Tribune: Colorado gardening: What is bolting, why it happens, and what to do Colorado gardening: What is bolting, why it happens, and what to do AOL: How to Harvest Cauliflower the Right Way, According to Master Gardeners Cauliflower is a great fall ingredient—follow these steps for the tastiest crop. Many garden-grown vegetables thrive in the summer months, but for several types of cauliflower, the fall months are ... Bolting is the process by which a plant flowers and produces seeds earlier than desired.
Context Explanation
A plant that goes to seed late in the growing season usually isn't a problem, but when a vegetable decides to go to seed prematurely, it can curtail the harvest of the edible portions of the plant. Bolting is a horticultural term for when a plant prematurely develops a flowering stalk (in a natural attempt to produce seed) before the crop has been harvested. In horticulture, bolting is the production of a flowering stem (or stems) on agricultural and horticultural crops before the harvesting of a crop, at a stage when a plant makes a natural attempt to produce seeds [1] and to reproduce. Bolting is when a plant prematurely sends up a flower stalk and begins producing seeds, usually triggered by heat or long daylight hours.
Image Collection
Insight Material
Once a plant bolts, its leaves typically turn bitter and tough, and the plant redirects all its energy toward reproduction rather than producing the leafy greens, roots, or herbs you were growing it for.