CAULIFLOWER: CURD INITIATION AND TIMING OF PRODUCTION IN A HIGH-TEMPERATURE GROWING SEASON

Some cauliflower cultivars initiate curd formation at about the same rate whether they are grown under cool or very warm weather conditions.
Other cultivars require more than twice as long a time to form curds under high-temperature conditions than under cool or moderate temperatures.
The delay or retardation of curd formation is the result of a lack of sufficient growing time during which the temperature is below a critical value.
This critical temperature appears to vary with different cultivars.

Symposium on Timing of Field Production of Vegetables

A. Liptay

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1981.122.5