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One of the heads of garlic I grew turned out to be just one solid clove (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by thrawn21 to c/mildlyinteresting
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[Image description: a perfectly round peeled bulb of garlic on a cutting board, with unpeeled normal cloves behind it.]

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[โ€“] Pheral 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm actually second-guessing my elephant garlic thought... I planted my first clove this year and it took a month and a half to sprout!!! I thought it had died due to heat, but I finally saw its thumb-sized sprout coming up a couple days ago. My normal garlic only takes a week or so to sprout over here in AZ. The elephant garlic seed leaves look more like an iris or tulip coming up. That one commenter was probably on point, saying the bulb was too young to start segmenting into cloves. That was news to me and I'm over the moon about it! Thank you so much for posting about this in the first place!!!

[โ€“] thrawn21 2 points 4 months ago

I had the exact same experience with the elephant garlic, they took forever to sprout, long enough that I actually dug one of them up to check that they hadn't been eaten or something.