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 Can anyone give me some advice about my Rhubarb please.
It was looking pretty healthy nice green leaves etc but has suddenly sprouted flowers, pink in colour.
Has my Rhubarb had it's day or can I just cut those flowering stalks off the plant.
I was so looking forward to Rhubarb crumble this season.
Help needed please.
           xxx

Remove the flowers stalks as soon as you see them! They seem to be very noticable this year.
Your rhubarb should be okay and I'm sure that you'll be enjoying crumble soon!  :)

It doesn't hurt to chuck couple of handfulls of chicken manure pellets and give good watering...that should get you rhubarb to push new leaves rather than flower stalks...this dry weather has made it bolt early..

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  Have a good weekend.

mines the same.....   :(

Mine haven't even got that far..all the stalks have come to stand still...I'll wait..it will rain eventually and things get going again... ;D

which reminds me, must bake some rhubarb pies with last years frozen stalks now that the new are here.

strange, 2 of 4 crowns has bolted - much earlier than last yr.  Annoying.  i think last yr i cut the flower bit off and it continues to fruit happily.

Yes mine had more flowers than I have ever seen. I chopped them all off and the plant is thriving. It was much manured over winter, wonder if that had anything to do with it?

Cut the buds off, don't let it flower, and it won't affect the crop.

I had my first picking today, no signs of flowering yet, others on site have the flowers so I will be on my guard.   ;D ;D ;D

what does the rhubarb flowere spike look like?  This is my first season at growing rhubarb.

Quote from: gwynnethmary on April 27, 2010, 01:32:07
what does the rhubarb flowere spike look like?  This is my first season at growing rhubarb.

A very Phallic stem rising through the leaves... if it flowers it looks a lot like a dock...

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Hi Gwynnethmary You'll know it when you see it, mine was actually rhubarb pink very tight flowers in a tall spike.

Hope you get some good crumbles this season.

Have done as advised, cut them off, dug in chicken manure and gave my plant a good drink so fingers crossed.

Have a great day guys.

Mine had one too!  I discovered it this morning so now it's gone- thanks for posting the question as I would have just thought, "Oh, how pretty" and carried on.....