Strange growth

[PAULW]

I was clearing my brassica patch yesterday when I dug up a root from a cauli I had cut some months ago, it had all this growth around the root coming from the root system itself, wonder if anyone else had seen this before and do they know why this has happened.
The cauli was PENDUICK sown in April and planted out late May it should in a normal season just be coming into harvest now but with the weird weather they have all come early.

[Cutecumber]

I am by no means sure as your pics are very small, but the first thing that comes to mind is clubroot. Swollen roots, which are not hollow when cut through, are a good indicator.

It is inadvisable to leave brassicas remains in the ground - it gives the clubroot spores something to latch on to. Do not compost any of the roots, burn them or put them in the bin or you will spread it.

Unfortunately if it is club root you are stuck with it for the time being.

Can you try and post a larger picture - hopefully I am wrong in my diagnosis!

[PAULW]

CUTECUMBER
Definatly not club root the growth smells like a brasica and has small brassica shaped leafs, will try to post bigger pics.

[Cutecumber]

I can't see what you mean, sorry.

Glad it's nothing nasty, though!

[Cutecumber]

Perhaps you have created a new life form

[PAULW]

Changed the picture resizer hope this is a bit clearer
As you can see the cauli roots are very healthy

[rustylady]

Maybe it's trying to make a new plant from the root system - although I have never seen this.

[PAULW]

RUSTYLADY I thought that myself, I showed it to our site manager who has been gardening for donkeys years and he said he had never seen anything like it either so I was hoping one of the grapes had the answer.

[Snadger]

At the smaller picture size I instantly thought of clubroot myself (hate being the provider of bad news!) but now I agree it is the plant reacting to a cut! Usually I cut a cross in the top of brassicas to get some new growth. This cauli has been cut but not crossed so the plant is trying to reproduce itself from a node that is underground I feel. I have seen this happen this year on two of my largest onions! The tops dried off but when I lifted them the onion had split into four below ground and loads of small new lleaves had started regrowth (the same as the cauli).

Ideal solution for brassicas is to lift whole plant rather than just cut cauli OR cut a cross in the top to allow new top growth to form at top!

Not a major problem for the future...................pheww!

[Cutecumber]

Interesting... very interesting.

[PAULW]

Thanks for all the input I had an idea it was what Snadger said but no one on the lottie had seen it before and I had onlyevery seen regrowth from the buds on the stem before.
Clever girl that mother nature.