Garlic formed clusters of cloves not bulbs?
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Comments (5)I am fairly new to growing garlic and have only grown softneck and a few heads of elephant garlic. Are you sure that this is not elephant garlic? It makes small bulblets at the base. I imagine that commercial growers remove the bulblets and ugly heads (where the bulblets are under the wrapper) to sell separately. There are many different types of garlic that you might enjoy growing more than store-bought - check out the allium forum for a lot of information. Best of luck! Here is a link that might be useful: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/allium/...See MoreGarlic cloves/bulb formed at soil surface, why?
Comments (4)Those are bulbils bursting through the stem (actually "pseudostem"). This sometimes happens with softneck varieties that have partially bolted. See: http://books.google.com/books?id=Hsf-43XvEnkC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=bulbils+bursting+through+pseudostem&source=bl&ots=mA9EIImrF2&sig=El2U8wak4c84bVLBaG7MTX_DO6c&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false TomNJ...See Moresingle clove garlic
Comments (62)This is an interesting thread. I am going to guess that there are several "single clove garlics". I think I have one, too, but it is a standard garlic that stays single clove by apparent culture. I planted very small cloves off full bulbs at the beginning of June this past summer. This particular type seems to produce scapes and cloves very easily if fall planted to winter over, but the cloves I planted in June never were cold treated. They were last of the previous years harvest of a feral I collected in Iowa. Original bulbs were tiny with very tiny cloves. Proper spacing and fertilization has increased the size for fall plantings very nicely. Bulbils are about the size of a pea; so they are nice sized, too. Back to the June planting. Every clove sprouted very quickly and grew to about foot to 14" tall. Not one ever sent up a scape, and the plants never went dry. Nor did any of them ever divide. Just this past week I dug a few and found two distinct types, both still very well rooted by the way - I couldn't pull em I had to dig em up. About half looked more like scallions with very little bulbing and these had the thicker stems. The thinner stems had singleton rounds up to close to an inch and a quarter, larger than even the first true bulbs I originally collected. Not one of this planting has divided nor scaped and the plants are still normally green going into winter. I am leaving about half of the original bed in place to see how they handle the Minnesota cold from a summer planting. They took care of themselves just fine in the zone 4 of NW Iowa for almost 30 years; so I am not too worried their hardiness. This seems to be one of several ways to grow solo garlic (I hope). I definitely expect that different kinds of garlic respond to vernalization differently or require different types of vernalization and probably respond differently to day length as well. I am going to try spring planting on some spare tulip bulbs, too, next summer. A little more size going into autumn would be nice for my Appeldoorns, hoping I can add bulb size, if I sacrifice the vernalization needed for the flowers....See MoreDo You Always Try to Grow Garlic with the Largest Cloves?
Comments (3)I have two favorite varieties of garlic that I have grown for at least 15 years. When I started growing them they formed good sized bulbs with multiple cloves per bulb. By selecting the largest cloves of the largest bulbs and using them as my planting stock, I was getting a product that I was more and more happy with. Then I noticed, the larger the cloves got, the fewer there were per bulb. I now have selected these two varieties to consistently produce a significantly larger bulb, that has only 4 cloves, sometimes a rogue fifth clove, but not very often. It definitely pays to select for traits that are important to you when choosing planting stock. Steve...See Moreseysonn
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