Hello all!
I've been a bit of a lurker but I wanted to make my first post expressing my excitement. SO (background)... I set up a balcony container garden of various fall-weather veggie plants (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, collards, mustard, turnips, kale). I successfully harvested turnips and kale over the past few weeks but it seems like the others stalled in growth when the weather became much cooler. So I brought a few of the plants inside: 2 cauliflower and 1 cabbage. I put them by the windows along with supplement grow lights and they started to grow again. This morning I fed them and discovered mini cauliflower heads on their respective plants. I got so excited because I had always heard how moody cauliflower can be. Also I've heard about the whole buttoning thing and am just wondering if that is what's going on here because honestly, the plants aren't all that big... or at least I expected bigger plants to produce the average size cauliflower head. The plants are only about 11-12 inches tall about about 12 inches across.
If this is buttoning, how do you deal with it?
The first cauliflower is in the center (overwintering habanero on the left, Discovery cabbage on the right:
This is the newly formed head on the above plant:
This is the 2nd cauliflower (on the right of the cabbage)
The new head:
Thanks all! and happy holidays!
