Doris wrote:Are you talking about bulbils from the inflorescence? If that's it, I put them when planting my garlic, that is to say ideally at home in January. No need to rush, in the first year it is only for the consumption in green and the harvest of the big single cayeux, which will give you a head the following year.
There are some "at the end" of these false inflorescences, but sometimes also in the middle of the stem. I've had quite a few of this second type this year. I wonder if this is not a "second growth". The number of pods having been determined very early on, the foot is found with biomass that it does not know where to move ??? Pure guesswork on my part ...
Yes, I will plant them in the early spring (winter exit), to make single bulbs, to consume or replant to make split heads ...
[Remember that garlic multiplies vegetatively and that there is a risk of "degeneration" which is in fact the development of diseases (viroses) or parasites (nematodes, which survive on the heads / pods in the "roots "). Gradually, the yields decrease (it is variable according to the varieties, some having tolerances). The "bulbils" we are talking about make it possible to "regenerate" a variety, knowing that vegetative reproduction strictly preserves the genetic heritage, which is therefore not involved during this "degeneration"! It just takes a bit of organization to know, in the pods that we use for breeding, who is who - so who is 1st generation, 2nd, 3rd, etc ... It seems obvious, but every year when I'm going to plant, I don't know anymore because I don't label the "crates" in which I keep my garlic. The easiest way is to separate your "seeds" immediately after harvest, and to label. I know the solutions, but who knows why I don't do what I say!]