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Post by raymondo on Jan 19, 2016 16:35:04 GMT -5
Happy accident.
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Post by richardw on Jan 19, 2016 17:45:33 GMT -5
I received some of that F1 grown garlic too but grew them in my tunnelhouse which was not a good idea for when i put them outside in spring a frost knocked the top down and the bulbs went rotten, might have to grab some more cloves off ya Megan and try again.
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Post by philagardener on Jan 19, 2016 19:25:16 GMT -5
What does everyone else plant at?? Mine are spaced about 8 inches (20 cm) apart.
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Post by meganp on Jan 21, 2016 2:56:02 GMT -5
I received some of that F1 grown garlic too but grew them in my tunnelhouse which was not a good idea for when i put them outside in spring a frost knocked the top down and the bulbs went rotten, might have to grab some more cloves off ya Megan and try again. will tag the bulbs that have lots of flowers and set aside a few cloves from each bulb for you. i'll leave the bulbs in the ground for as long as possible to give the flowers the best possible chance so they may be a bit the worse for wear!
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Post by richardw on Feb 28, 2016 12:59:36 GMT -5
Pulled apart a pod and found white seeds, so looking like i will have seed, but will any grow?
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Post by kazedwards on Mar 4, 2016 13:08:58 GMT -5
It looks like you will at least have a few!
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Post by richardw on Mar 4, 2016 13:31:56 GMT -5
Should do kazedwards then it comes to seeing if any will germinate. I had another TGS plant that didn't quite make it the flowering department, when its scape started to turn yellow i noticed a green shoot sticking out of the ground at its base, i dug the whole bulb up and found that there were five cloves regrowing (remembering this is the middle of summer),four were replanted into next growing seasons garlic bed and one was put into a large pot to go into the tunnelhouse for the coming winter. So effectively the dormancy period on this one plant was no more than a month,these plants are going to be huge going into winter.
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Post by richardw on Mar 13, 2016 13:43:44 GMT -5
Disappointed!! the pods had no seed in them, trying to grow TGS is proving to be harder than i thought,at least ive got a lot more varieties to play with for next summer
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Post by reed on Mar 25, 2016 4:45:09 GMT -5
I still only have three sprouts from my garlic seed that kazedwards sent me. They nice strong looking but growth is slow. I moved them out to a cold frame which actually isn't that cold, I'm having to leave it vented most of the time. I would be happy with just them assuming I can get them to maturity and reproduce by bulbils so I can worry about more seed later. I think my method may have been flawed in that perhaps I planted too deep but I haven't given up on the others. Ah Ha, I saved back about 25 or so and am going to plant them today and not bury them at all, just push them down tight to the surface. I'm thinking they may be one of those things that needs light to sprout.
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Post by kazedwards on May 11, 2016 11:11:24 GMT -5
The winter sow seed that I sowed has done nothing yet. I don't think it will. I used two different containers. One was a big 3 gallon water jug and the other two containers were ice cream buckets. The big jug would dry out too much. The ice cream containers would stay too moist and started to mold so I don't think they let enough light in. The dog also got into the ice cream containers after I took off the lids.
On 5/1 I sowed the last of my seed. So far 14 out of 500 have come up. The first ones came up on Monday. I now have them under lights. I am already thinking about hardening them off but I will probably wait a few weeks to let more come up first. So far two more have come up everyday. They are growing very slowly as expected.
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Post by kazedwards on May 12, 2016 12:27:00 GMT -5
Here is the TGS today. Up to 15 now.
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Post by kazedwards on Jun 29, 2016 11:42:58 GMT -5
So far both garlic varieties I am growing have had some scapes open. reed's Indiana Homestead opened first and does have flowers. The it's time I start removing bulbils from them now that they have started to get some color to them from the sun. The bulbils are much larger than on Chesnok Red which I am very pleased with. On the other hand there are far less flowers. The Chesnok Red has only had a few scapes open so far and has many more to go. The ones that have opened seem really strong. I can not see any bulbils yet from the numerous amount of flowers. I'm sure now that the flowers can spread out some and light can get to the bulbils they will turn color and be more noticeable. So far the scape has not straightened out on the TGS plant. Perhaps a week or two before it opens.
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Post by garand555 on Jun 30, 2016 13:43:32 GMT -5
I'm a noob on this site, so welcome all! I have an interesting tale with regards to garlic. Several years ago, I had purchased some softneck garlic bulbs from Albertsons, and had planted it in the spring. (I know, you're supposed to plant it in the fall.) I harvested most of it, but there were a couple that I had left in the ground and neglected. The ones that I harvested most certainly were softneck. Oddly enough, several weeks later, I went back to the bed, and that softneck garlic that I had left in the ground had decided to bolt, and it had fully developed bulbils on it! Being interested in producing true garlic seed, I hoped that there was some epigenetic stuff going on, and the bolting would be passed on to its offspring, so I collected all of the bulbils and planted them two-ish years ago. Fast forward to this spring, and every single one of them started scaping! I have diligently pulled all of the bulbils off of most of the plants, and did this about six days ago. I've been worried that the flowers have not been changing color, and this morning, I saw my first hint of purple. It gives me hope that this softneck turned hardneck might yet produce seed. I would estimate that I have around 40-50 plants. I'm going to let a few produce bulbils again in case this doesn't work this year, maybe something will change in the future. I might store some cloves in the fridge and plant next spring, in case doing things how I'm not supposed to somehow acts as a trigger, but that is assuming that I get no seed from whatever cultivar this is. I also have a cultivar that I have gotten seed from in the past that I will use to cross pollinate roughly half of these, just in case it is male sterile.
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Post by philagardener on Jun 30, 2016 20:54:27 GMT -5
Welcome, garand555! I've had softnecks scape occasionally when the plants were stressed; they just do so a lot less frequently than hardnecks. Sounds like you have some interesting things going! Good luck with those flowers!
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Post by garand555 on Jun 30, 2016 23:15:49 GMT -5
Welcome, garand555 ! I've had softnecks scape occasionally when the plants were stressed; they just do so a lot less frequently than hardnecks. Sounds like you have some interesting things going! Good luck with those flowers! That brings up an interesting thought: I've seen weeds go to seed faster when water stressed. I live in NM, and do grow some native and otherwise drought and heat tolerant plants, such as locally adapted cultivars of melons, watermelons, NM chile, tepary beans, etc... I might water my chile every 5-7 days with temperatures getting into the upper 90s, which tends to stress some of the weeds on occasion, and the next thing I know, I have a bunch of creeping spurge that went to seed. If I don't get any seed this year, I might plant separate plots of the stuff and see if I can't subject them to varying levels of stress, light, etc... to see if that doesn't kick off some sort of response. IMO, stress can be a thing that causes some plants to not produce a lot (or any) of seed, but with other plants, it might very well be a signal to produce the seed NOW, before it dies.
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