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.
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.
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?
Pic? Are you sure it's a carrot?
Probably bolted like another commenter said.
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.
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.
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