My Goldfinger bloomed for the first time, but looks like it will fail to make any fruit. The first flowers it made do not look like normal female flowers, from what I can tell.
This plant had some nutritional problems: boron deficiency that was exacerbated by calcium application. And I fertilized too little because every time I did (until I worked out the boron thing) the emerging leaves were all screwed up (bent and floppy). I assume that's why I'll be getting no fruit from this plant this year.
Have any of you experts seen this happen before?
First flowers on raceme:
Raceme about 6 weeks later:
