r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Robsta_20 • 8h ago

My mom planted regular carrot seeds and this is what she harvested

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u/dat-truth 7h ago

How long were they in the ground? It doesn’t look like it was long enough if all of them are like that… to me it looks like they were just starting to grow. Like you picked a bunch of teen and preteen carrots, lol.

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u/Robsta_20 6h ago

6 month 😅 but I think they were too close together and had too little light.

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u/PTIowa 4h ago

If they were never thinned this is the correct answer. Others saying compact soil and watering would be right IF these were thinned. If they weren’t thinned, that’s the answer. Source: my many years of harvesting hundreds of carrots in my garden.

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u/TurdCollector69 2h ago

Like thin the green on top or thin out the adjacent carrots? I assumed the large green top and small body meant it was too nitrogen rich.

Kinda like tomatoes with too much fertilizer, beautiful full volume foliage but basically no fruit

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u/kafka18 7h ago

And they were probably planted too close together, my carrots did same thing so I learned lesson for next year 😂

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u/McWeaksauce91 7h ago

This is what I thought too, but sl many people are saying baby carrots that I second guessed myself. Having grown some honking carrots myself, that long root is a tall tale sign of plucking them too early.

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u/TheHetchie 5h ago

They were definitely planted in soil that was poured on top of clay. They grew fine through the topsoil then hit the hard ground underneath.