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06 Sep 15, 1st time veggie grower (Australia - temperate climate)

My cauliflowers are going great (white) do I cut them off from the base and remove the rest of the plant and discard -is this the end of its life or do I leave it and will another cauliflower will grow from it?

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03 Jan 16, Anne (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

I would like to know this too please

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21 Jun 15, Brian (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Jim, You can get a purple cauli, but I will assume you have a different variety. break/bend and tie a couple of the outer leaves and lay them over the head. This will stop them from

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19 Jun 15, Jim (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

This is our first attempt at growing cauliflowers. Looked good to start off .Cauliflower heads are turning purple ,only about 75 -100 mm in diameter and opening up.

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08 Jun 15, Critters (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Currently growing a hybrid cauliflower, rather tall plant reaching between 80cm to 1 metre tall. the stem of the flowerette is a light lime green with a purple head. No detraction from the good old taste of cauli. My method is to use compost, compost and more compost, then add some more compost. Sunlight is the trigger that makes the cauli purple. Dadpad's comment tells you how to keep your cauli from turning purple, once it has turned purple it is too late to turn back the clock. Happy Gardening.

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04 Jun 15, dadpad (Australia - temperate climate)

Sounds like It could be the purple variety. Otherwise try to pull the leaves up around and over the fruiting body (really the flower) tie the leaves at the top to keep them in place covering the

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26 May 15, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hello, I am in sub-tropical climate zone, have planted cauliflower, they start out lovely bright white, but are turning a purlply/ mauve colour, at first I thought it may be a mould of some sort, but this all started before any rain, also the florets seem to be separating a bit, the biggest ones are only a bit bigger than a squash ball . Any ideas would be appreciated, this is obviously my first crop! Thanks very much

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28 Oct 14, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

My cauliflower plants bolted to flower & seed after small heads formed. If I harvest the seed now (end October) and keep in paper bag is it likely to be viable to plant in March/April? I am in the subtropical zone.

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24 Sep 14, Pinky (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Ok so after reading all of the above comments i can see that Cauliflowers are a "veteran gardeners vegetable", are there any fail safe guides for the beginners? Cheers.

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19 Sep 14, Alan (Australia - arid climate)

Hi just a quick question, my cauliflower and brocolli are seperating as soon as they flower, some of my brocolli are going straight ti yellow flower, any suggestions greatly appreciated, oh they are in raised garden beds with garden mix soil with some cow manure. Thanks.

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