Carrots can bolt, so if it’s one, maybe it was just stressed or a bad seed. Stuff happens.
If it was more, maybe it was environment or something else.
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I didn't know modern carrots could bolt. Does this mean the actual carrot won't taste very good?
you can eat carrot flowers too. They taste like carrots :)
You can also make pesto from the greens!
This one time I thought I planted carrots but it was actually California poppy.
The foliage before the flower was close enough i was convinced they were last years popping back up … I was shocked when it shot a flower up.
Anyways, are you sure it’s a carrot?
Yeah, i bought the seed. The plants next to it did normal carrot things. And there is a carrot attached to it in the ground, just thinner.
I mean, where did you think carrot seeds came from?
Well, to be honest I wasn't sure. I thought that the modern "coreless" type maybe engineered away the seeds that used to be in the core or something. Like with seedless grapes and such.
Plants just do weird shit sometimes.
I currently have a flower plant that is growing about a foot-and-a-half-long... tentacle out of the middle of one of its flowers, just hanging in space. What is it? I have absolutely no idea. It's just there.
Pic? Are you sure it's a carrot?
I thought I had added the image, but it seems to fail. Here is a link I just edited the post to add. https://imgur.com/a/qzOZ1OR
Yup, that looks like a carrot. That's what they do when they grow up! Eventually it'll flower and everything, if you let it!
You might be able to cut the stalk way down, but I suspect that carrot root won't be very good. I haven't personally grown carrots though.
I am definitely going to let it grow and see what happens. Thats part of the fun of gardening for me.
Probably bolted like another commenter said.
Carrots are biennial. If you planted seeds this year and are seeing something put on flower buds, it's likely a weed rather than a tall carrot.
My upload failed without me realizing, here is a link, https://imgur.com/a/qzOZ1OR But there is a thin carrot in the ground attached to it... so I think it is the carrot I planted there.
Carrots, onions, and other biannial plants will sometimes behave as an annual. It's usually caused by a genetic mutant but it can be environmentally triggered.
In the wild they naturally are a mixed of annual and biannual plants depending on the growing conditions.
The leaves look right for a carrot. I would let it grow and see what you get from it in the fall.