Rhubarb.

[Beelucky2]

Just a little advise please. Do I cut off the flowers that are forming on my rhubarb crown??, or do I leave them alone?
Thanks
Paul                       

[Beelucky2]

[caroline7758]

Cut them off. Rhubarb seems to flower earlier every year!

[johhnyco15]

pull them as low as you can rhubarb flowers when stressed

[Beelucky2]

Thanks Johnyco and caroline...they'll be gone tomorrow 

[pumkinlover]

And give it some water! and compost or manure later in the year. (Like I plan to do every year )

[johhnyco15]

feed it  water it  water it again then feed it i picked this today

[pumkinlover]

That looks good!!
Plot looks very nice too 

[johhnyco15]

That looks good!!
Plot looks very nice too 

thank you for the comment

[Paulh]

Some varieties may be more prone to flower - I have Timperley Early and Champagne which both do and an unknown variety which doesn't. Watering and feeding might help, I've not really tried that properly.

[Buster54]

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/rhubarb/rhubarb-bolting.htm

[ancellsfarmer]

Flowering rhubarb produces seed in quantity.
Does anyone have experience in growing rhubarb from seed with a view of taking a crop directly in the same year?.(Next year?) This seems to be the technique in Texas, but obviously with a different climate regime. Germination temperature, transplantable/direct sowing, crop out and replant next season ?Anybody know?

[Buster54]

Flowering rhubarb produces seed in quantity.
Does anyone have experience in growing rhubarb from seed with a view of taking a crop directly in the same year?.(Next year?) This seems to be the technique in Texas, but obviously with a different climate regime. Germination temperature, transplantable/direct sowing, crop out and replant next season ?Anybody know?

I had some sent from a chap on here and 90% of them germinated,I gave most of it away but the plants I did keep didn't do anything for a crop the first year,My plan was to have about a doz plants that I could pick off so not stress the whole root

[Normylass]

Hi I grew my rhubarb from seed 8 years ago.
I didn't pick any the first year, very, very lightly picked the second year.
Third year onwards picked whatever I wanted. This seems to have done well for the plants, I have 3 healthy clumps. 

[caroline7758]

Just re-visiting this topic to say I drove past some rhubarb fields in the famous West Yorkshire rhubarb triangle today and they were flowering like mad, but I read here that they only harvest for three years from the same plant then dig them into the soil, so not quite the same as the rest of us!

http://www.yorkshirerhubarb.co.uk/ruhbarb_triangle.htm