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    My pak choi plants have all started flowering because I left them in the greenhouse and they got too hot . The plants are only about 8 inches tall and nowhere near being ready to eat. Is it too late for them now? Will removing the flowers allow the plant to continue growing properly? Should I just compost them and start again?

  • #2
    Eat them!!! cut them off at the base and cut a cross in the remaining stem -they should re-shoot.

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    • #3
      If the plants are 8" high Palborn, maybe you should have eaten them a while ago. They don't need to be in a greenhouse. Mine were planted outdoors in March and I'm eating them now. Eat what you have left and enjoy.

      From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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      • #4
        This happened to me last year - they were planted out one week and flowered the next. Eat, enjoy and tickle your tastebuds as you think what you could have growing in their place. Good luck.

        Tammy
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        • #5
          As I keep saying Pak Choi is a cool-weather crop. You'd do much better to sow it at the end of summer for an autumn/winter crop.
          It just bolts in hot weather, as you've discovered.
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            Joy Larcom who popularised oriental veg reckons, as Two Sheds says, that you either need to sow early and eat small in spring, or wait till after July.
            Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

            www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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