This is ridiculous- baby spinach plant is bolting before I even transplant it- in my basement window sill at 70 degrees.
This is ridiculous- baby spinach plant is bolting before I even transplant it- in my basement window sill at 70 degrees.
by jeffh40
6 Comments
pangolin_of_fortune
I’ve pretty much given up on spinach. Chard is much easier!
BigRedTard
I plant spinach in mid September. It is a cool weather crop
Useful_Shirt151
Spinach bolting is equal parts caused by temperature and day length. Ideal growing temps are 50-65F and it will bolt if day length is longer than 12 hours.
USCGB-Hill
Lack of moist soil would be another. If the plant thinks it’s dying, it will drop seeds to repopulate
HighColdDesert
Because of both day length and temperature, different crops do well at different times of the season. So I grow a few different leafy greens: spinach, chard, kale, amaranth, and some other minor ones, and a similar range of leafy salad greens like lettuce, endive, rocket, orach and others. The kale, bok choi and other cabbage family members get butterfly larvae in summer but are very cold hardy so they usually do well in spring and autumn.
Zealousideal-Bad6057
I transplanted my spinach babies from consistent 68 F to suddenly 50 to 95 fluctuations under baking high mountain sunlight and hailstorms in late July. Other than a bit of damage from the hail, they’ve been growing like crazy and happier than ever. Idk what to tell you.
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I’ve pretty much given up on spinach. Chard is much easier!
I plant spinach in mid September. It is a cool weather crop
Spinach bolting is equal parts caused by temperature and day length. Ideal growing temps are 50-65F and it will bolt if day length is longer than 12 hours.
Lack of moist soil would be another. If the plant thinks it’s dying, it will drop seeds to repopulate
Because of both day length and temperature, different crops do well at different times of the season. So I grow a few different leafy greens: spinach, chard, kale, amaranth, and some other minor ones, and a similar range of leafy salad greens like lettuce, endive, rocket, orach and others. The kale, bok choi and other cabbage family members get butterfly larvae in summer but are very cold hardy so they usually do well in spring and autumn.
I transplanted my spinach babies from consistent 68 F to suddenly 50 to 95 fluctuations under baking high mountain sunlight and hailstorms in late July. Other than a bit of damage from the hail, they’ve been growing like crazy and happier than ever. Idk what to tell you.