Was away about a week. One carrot decided to grow super tall and looks like it will make a big flower. The carrot under isn’t as big as it’s brethern that I harvested. This is a new variety of carrot for me called “short and sweet”. Never seen this with my other carrots.
Edit: I didn’t notice that the image failed to upload. I have tried adding an imgur link.
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.
I didn’t know modern carrots could bolt. Does this mean the actual carrot won’t taste very good?
Bolting is when a plant diverts energy to producing flowers/seeds instead of the root, so yeah your carrot will probably be woody and bitter now - it’s totally normal tho, just means the plant thought “oh shit time to reproduce” due to stress, age, or temperature changes.