06/12/08, 02:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: South Louisiana
Posts: 1,046
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Bolting simply put is going to seed. And most of the time it affects the taste. You'll know it when it happens. All of a sudden there is a taller shoot or bag of seeds at a place that normally has nothing. For instance, head lettuce tends to grow less than a foot off the ground, but a head of lettuce that has bolted or gone to seed, sends up a shoot about 3-4 feet high with inconspicuous flowers on the top. Mustard greens...same thing. On broccoli, the broccoli florets suddenly turn yellow and open up flowers.
Hopefully that paints a good enough picture.
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