Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but a garlic plant grows some form of a "seed" head, that will have miniature round bulbs in it if they aren't clipped off that, it's my understanding, when they are planted they'll grow like this in the first year and into a normal garlic bulb year two. I've never experimented enough to know if I'm correct, but if my info is correct I'd guess either one of those got mixed in by mistake, or if your planting in the same spot as the year prior one might've just fallen off.

[–] feedum_sneedson 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

bulbils

not always, but yes

this is a mutation though, and I've seen this kind of "single clove" garlic in the shops

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I got one of those this year. I grow hard neck and must have missed the scape on this one.

The bulb and the "seed head"(?) in the pic are the same plant, just bent in half so both are visible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Missed the whole scape not just one individual bulb I'm guessing? My brain was struggling to piece together what i was looking at lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Haha yeah sorry that's a bad pic. The scape is the curly thing that grows off the top of the plant in the spring, and then and flowers. If you're growing garlic, you'd normally cut the scape so that the plant puts more energy into the bulb instead of the flower. Here's a pic of the whole thing: