Broccoli

[adekun]

My first attempt at growing Broccoli has been fair unpredictable. To begin with I lost the top of one in a typhoon, later found one was a cabbage, another went straight into flower.
Can anybody offer an insight into what happened to the last one? It was planted along with the rest in October.
Here's a link with a photo if needed cursed broccoli. The row was home to the cabbage that sat there like a cabbage - it didn't do anything.

At least the remaining three came good.

[Wombat]

G'Day Mate!

That's weird............broccoli will head up and in warm wether only take a couple of days from the heading stage to going up to seed. But you should be having cool weather. What about moisture stress? Or perhaps if it was planted before the solstice, it will tend to bolt rather than holding at the heading stage due to increasing day length........

Dunno.....

Nev

[Shirley]

Has it simply bolted and gone to seed? It looks rather pretty doesn't it.

[Sassinak]

I lost a few to flower this year because they all came ready at more or less the same time and I ignored them for a couple of days - it only takes a couple of days between peak freshness and pretty flowers when they are growing strongly

[adekun]

Whilst it always seems cold inside, it hasn't really been wintry here - as yet? I don't know how Broccoli works but the iffy one seemed to be different from a foot upwards. The others grew heads and this grew flowers.
I'll chuck it on the compost pile, once the flowers go. I can't complain about what I'm left with.

[Wombat]

If it's any consolation, mate, flowering broccoli attracts predatory insects that will give your insect pests a hard time........

Nev