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    Rhubarb Going to Flower Already?!

    i've got two rhubarb plant. they appear to be producing flowers already?!

    anyone else got this problem?

    I presume the right thing to do is to cut out the flowering stem, keep calm and carry on eating the rest when big enough?
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  • #2
    Mine have started flowering already too. Not sure why but I have just cut them off and hoped for the best
    A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

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    • #3
      Stress does it.
      It can be you've disturbed their roots but the weather messes them up I think.
      It's been very mild and wet and then very dry for a couple of weeks. The soil has been showing signs of cracking like we were in a drought.
      More mulch and muck round them I think.

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      • #4
        I divided 2 very large crowns in December and one of the new plants is sending up a flower . . . will need to give it some time to make a stem so I can cut it off, it is quite obviously a flower though.
        My allotment in pictures

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        • #5
          You are better off pulling off rhubarb stems so that you don't leave a short piece to rot back to the crown.

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          • #6
            My rhubarb had flowering stems last year. All I did was cut them down. Still had a great crop from them. So I don't think it does them any harm.

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            • #7
              Would be grateful of any sort of stems on mine, they seem really slow to get going this year ....
              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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              • #8
                Originally posted by binley100 View Post
                Would be grateful of any sort of stems on mine, they seem really slow to get going this year ....
                Do they need dividing ? or feeding ?
                My allotment in pictures

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by RaptorUK View Post
                  I divided 2 very large crowns in December and one of the new plants is sending up a flower . . . will need to give it some time to make a stem so I can cut it off, it is quite obviously a flower though.
                  This is what it looks like today, I think I need to let it get a little bigger so I can remove it without damaging the crown.

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                  • #10
                    it does look very pretty though

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by alldigging View Post
                      Stress does it.
                      It can be you've disturbed their roots but the weather messes them up I think.
                      It's been very mild and wet and then very dry for a couple of weeks. The soil has been showing signs of cracking like we were in a drought.
                      More mulch and muck round them I think.
                      One of my 'barbs is flowering already too and it's the one that isn't mulched. Of the other two, one is mulched with permeable black plastic and gravel, the other with cardboard and wood shavings. The plastic and gravel one is way ahead (I've just prepared the first rhubarb crumble of the year, for tea tomorrow!) and it was also the first to be mulched. A long winded way of saying I agree with alldigging. I suppose mulch helps keep the crown temperature on an even keel?
                      My Autumn 2016 blog entry, all about Plum Glut Guilt:

                      http://www.mandysutter.com/plum-crazy/

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                      • #12
                        Thanks for this thread.

                        I divided mine last year, thought I'd killed them however they have shot up from nowhere however I thought it was strange one had already flowered. I'll put it down to stress.
                        Cheers

                        Danny

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                        • #13
                          So are they stressed cos it wasn't cold enough?

                          This seems to confirm that:
                          The history of Rhubarb

                          "The Rhubarb Triangle, situated in the shadows of the Pennines, is in fact in a frost pocket. "

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