Just a question regarding Illustrator and Path Blends

If you draw using the pen tool two paths, and convert these paths to guides, you are able to blend colours from one path to the other, which is great when using gradients, as photoshop does not have this benefit, but rather just linear or radial.

HOWEVER

I am having a few slight issues with it. Looking at the gradient where the two points closest all looks well until the points are seperated, thats when the gradient is then split into lines and it looks ver poor.

Have a look at the attached sample.

Can this be resolved, and if so how do you get a gradient to follow paths in a smooth output?