Elephant Garlic (can it be grown from true seed?)
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Can you grow Elephant Garlic from true seeds? Cloves can be used and so can be bulbils for propagation. Anyone out there doing it with True Seeds? Leave me a comment, please.
Yes, I bought True seeds from a grower in Ontario and planted them this spring. They were very small but have sprouted very well and I hope to harvest, dry and continue growing them for 2 more seasons until they reach full size. I'm in zone 9A. So far so good.
That’s awesome!
How did you go with this?
Here in the south we call the bulbils, the things on walking onions Bulbils & corms the dark brown thing found on the roots.
Never tried "true seeds" on Garlic, the flower makes the cloves smaller. It maybe alright for one or two plants, but we remove all scrape (flower buds) from our garlic, in spring & cook with them or sale them.
Nice video and much enjoyed, thank you, but I must correct a couple of minor points.
Those ‘teeny tiny’ things are not bulbils (bulbils look similar but they develop in the neck of the garlic and not around the bulb). What you describe as bulbils are actually corms.
Also, the flowering stem is not produced from the flat part of the single ‘mono-clove’, the roots emerge from that part so that part must be planted downwards. The flowering stem actually emerges from the pointed part of the mono-cloves just as it does from all cloves.
Yes that seed is viable and will take 3yrs to get to fill sized bulb stage. Plant, grow on, pull and store each growing season for 3 years. Grow just like onions.
Sometimes the individual flowers can be planted rather than pick out the black seeds because the whole little flower begin getting roots already if there is rain on the seed head.
But that garlic isn't very big! To me those cloves are just normal sized.
An Elephant garlic clove is as big as an apricot and the whole bulb would just fit in a soup bowl.
Thank you for sharing the info.
So I have some wild elephant garlic growing on my land and they have grown to seedling at the top like this video shown. Right now is July 17th, 2021, I don't want to grow from the flowers cause it takes too long so I am wondering if I can dig the bulb up while the top is seeding and plant the bulb...if I can, when should I plant the bulb? I do need to know soon please. Thank you.
@@mandiegarrett1706 You could give it a try. No harm there. Whether the bulbs sprout straight away is anyone's guess. Usually garlic prefers to grow in it's proper season. So it is put in the ground at the end of autumn, sits there through winter with little moisture then booms away in spring when the rain comes, then is ready to lift in early summer with the heat.
So the wild garlic you are seeing is ready to lift, but not to replant just yet.
Lift most of the bulbs. Leave some to keep the wild plants growing, plant a few bulbs and hang the rest until another 6weeks has passed so the bulbs are mature.
They will begin sprouting once mature. Just plat the long flower stems together and hang the whole thing in your garden shed or where you store your garden tools. That should be a dry warm place. The whole of each corm will dry out a bit, the leaves go crispy, then you will see the bulbs seems to swell a bit before sprouting.
That is the time to plant into slightly moist soil. Following what nature does is the best way for semi-wild plants. Asking them to grow out of season, is not advisable for best results.
But plant some now and save the rest. Also save the seed and get half going when it falls out of the flower head, let the other half dry for making salad sprouts.
If you sprout seeds for eating fresh, they are yumm in salads, on pasta or to brighten vegies for a change if you are vegetarian.
@@mandiegarrett1706 I wont elephant garlic seeds
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It means if we grow very little pink flowers which comes on the very top of the elephant garlic plant .. We can get the normal garlic crop after 2 or 3 years practice of sowing little pink flowers..?.? Please reply.. I am waiting your valuable answer ....
Your bawang* flower head seems very fresh.
Leave the plant in the ground until all of the fruits (seed head/fertilized flowers) have started to dry out and go papery. That's the better time to harvest for seed.
Those are "corms" not "bulbils". Yes, there's a difference.
That single, onion like bulb is a "round".
Corm >> Round >> Head (with cloves).
Treat the seeds as you would any other alium seed.
*Bawang, Russina Galic, Kissing garlic, Elephant garlic, Giant garlic, Buffalo garlic
Yes they do but it will take a long time but patient is the key of success all the best
yes it would. Same with green onions ! I had regular store bought garlic i didnt have time to harvest and they went to seed. this year i have loads of garlic chives. all clumped together. ill have to separate them at some point. but they will indeed grow and take some time. at this point they are very small bulbs. coincidentally the green onions did the same and im about to harvest those now.
That’s good to know. Which gardening zone you are in?
@@GrowWithMeUsa 10A
From a friend that shared seeds with me this year, she said she does grow them every year this way. I will see myself I just planted my seeds today. I will see if my will start to grow in fall or spring of next year. Should be ready for harvest around July she says. I'm in zone 8a. Time will tell.
Hope you have a great harvest. Good luck.
Cool. Did they grow? I mean have they sprouted yet?
Good luck! Please let us know how it goes.
I want to try planting elephant garlic seeds, too!
the flowers will grow , if pollinated. good info thanks
Thank you thats a great idea about the small bulb hanging off the roots
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They say Elephant Garlic is related to leeks , Interesting Question.. Following
I let a few dozen plants from the normal hard neck garlic 🧄 varieties (not sure of the exact varieties) go to bloom this year. I just finished going through the dried out blooms and out of probably 40-50 heads, I got one ☝️ seed.
I agree this is very interesting, they were all the same type of garlic as far as I know but I live in the city, so other types could be within pollination range, and I’ve seen many smaller wild garlics growing in the untrimmed fields of the “shutdown” summer of 2020 in Michigan.
I’m not sure if I should plant this seed now, or in the spring to give it the best shot at surviving, but I’d like to learn more about this process. I’m very interested to see if you make another video, and maybe try growing a few verities of (elephant) garlic or maybe even leeks next year.
I will definitely do so. Thank you for the idea.
Garlic is Sterile, unless you are going to undertake a very tedious process you will not produce "true seeds" the flower head "Umbel" contains identical clones of the mother plant "Bulbils". There is no pollination.
Awesome video!!
good question , I think it is like having ciclamen... you can produce garlic from seeds and it will be a little different from the mother but a little bit strongher. I don't know the time ... try to let seeds grow by them self under a tiny layer of soil.
All of these will grow from the seed head. If it will get to a seed head, it will reproduce. I have wild ramps (Triangular thin grass like filled with a gel) that reproduce from the seed head well. And its literally going to even germinate later in that same year. However I have wild onions that have a round stem much like spring onions but smaller, that never get a seed head. I dont know how they propogate, but they do come up in different spots year over year.
Thank you. Unlike the onions flowers, this elephant garlic flower did not produce the actual seeds from the pods. Wonder if I pulled it out of the ground too soon before the seeds can develop in the flower pods. I am going to give this a try this year as well.
@@GrowWithMeUsa The ones I am talking about were triangular stalk leaves with round stalk "stem" with the seed head. Not all in a single stalk. I've not found exactly what its called. I just call it a wild garlic. The flower looks like yours but much smaller, like dime sized with 100 or so tiny mustard seed sized garlic pearls.
So nice
Thank you!
Yes.
I left many elephant garlic to flower this year. Ive seen bees on them and seed pods form, but no seeds developed inside. So disappointing outcome. Needs a rethink, still just planted cloves for next year's crop so I will be interested in any other feedback you get.
The flower I showed in the video has no seeds in it either.
@@GrowWithMeUsa There was no garlic mate around. Cloning garlic from cloves, bulblis and corms killed the need to propagate sexually - flowers not producing seeds but cloning (bulblis). If you get garlic seeds the germination is 5-10%.
Hi sir, I'm I Canada . How I buy from you elephant garlic.
Did you plant the seeds of the elephant garlic?
Please help me and my quandary .On the top of my scapes the flower has turned into a pocket of tiny little cloves and i cant find out if i can plant these tiny cloves to get a new whole plant or are they just edibles for a salad if anybody can help id be grateful,cheers.
Hi @siv heed, those tiny little cloves are called bulbils. You can plant them and get a full head of garlic in a 2-3 year timeframe. They are smaller and takes more time to mature as opposed to cloves from garlic heads. They take only one year to produce a full garlic head. Bulbils are edible. And yes, salads and stir-fries are good applications. Hope it helps.
@@GrowWithMeUsa Hi thanks for the reply most helpful.
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Can we grow garlic from very little flower seed , that flowers which are on the top of elephant garlic plant top.? Plz reply شکریہ
Hello, if you look through the comments, some folks mentioned it is possible. However I have not tried it.
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Are you from australia..? Can i get elephant garlic seed.?
@@chaudharymahmood1876 I have elephant garlic Seed from Pakistan
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Do you have a video of you planting the seeds yet?
Not yet!
Now?
Have you found out about the garlic flower seeds??
Not yet. It remains an open question.
Can we cut one single onion like bulb into 4 to 6 pieces and plant them . Will they grow up and produce multi clove bulbs??? I think its a fair question ⁉️
This have my curiosity now. I think it’s worth trying.
@@GrowWithMeUsa Kindly get botanical opinion on this! Does all the bulb have clove-like properties in it; i think it has! A scientist can verify it emperically
The answer is No
Yes, you will get a first single clove, but you leave it, then in 2 years will get a full size head
Yes after 2 years you will get a head of garlic
Can this be grown in the tropics?
Probably not.
No they need winter
@@adamroman4426 Who told you that?
@@averykleon Experience
No, they don't need ''winter''. They are native here in Cyprus island and at my location we have average 18 celcious winter with no frost. They just grow, no watering and no fertilizer. @@adamroman4426
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