|
Post by kazedwards on Aug 28, 2017 19:43:16 GMT -5
I just found 14 nice looking seeds on a dried up scape of Chesnock Red that I originally got from kazedwards. I didn't keep good enough track to know if it was one of three plants from his seeds last year or one of the others. If I did anything to encourage seed formation it would be neglect. Weed competition, no watering, no bulbil removal. That's great!
|
|
|
Post by joeyd on Aug 28, 2017 21:18:28 GMT -5
So, I was not at all hopeful in collecting any seeds, but when I checked my drying umbels today I found a few seeds. So, out of the 40 plants I grew on the side of my garden for seeds only about 10 did not have their umbels just dry up and of those I found a few seeds on only three of them. In all I collected 21 seeds. Now, this is my first year growing garlic and I was only growing one variety. So, even getting a few seeds was a nice surprise as I was only growing one variety. I doubt that any will ever germinate, but I will give it a try in a few months. I'm going to plant a few more possible seed producing varieties for next year and hopefully get better results. Overall I had a good experience growing garlic for the first time; got a few seeds and almost 10 pounds of garlic from the pound I planted.
|
|
|
Post by steev on Aug 29, 2017 0:35:27 GMT -5
A good initial experience is always very encouraging; best of luck.
|
|
|
Post by bryajw on Sept 13, 2017 21:45:07 GMT -5
Last year I was able to produce about 2,000 seeds from Chesnok Red using the cut scape in water method. This year I have some in water and some still on the bulb. Both years I've noticed that the most promising looking flower heads have one or two bulbils that I had missed removing. Many of the flower heads have withered away, but few of them had residual bulbils. It appears to me that the residual bulbils have kept the flower tops alive, without affecting the production of seeds.
Almost all of the scapes still on the bulb have some swollen ovaries, but they are a couple weeks behind the ones in water. There are a few swollen ovaries on flower tops that did not get bulbils removed. About half of the scapes in water have withered away.
|
|
|
Post by richardw on Oct 18, 2017 13:07:10 GMT -5
Noticed that the first scapes are showing, these were cloves from bulbs that only had a 6 week to 2 1/2 months dormancy period, these are a month earlier than the first scapes last spring, could this be the year??? Nine months of vegetative growth
|
|
|
Post by bryajw on Oct 22, 2017 16:13:42 GMT -5
I only produced 3 garlic seeds this season. They all came from seed tops left to develop on the bulb. None of the ones in water buckets produced this year.
|
|
|
Post by richardw on Oct 23, 2017 23:56:46 GMT -5
Thats 3 seeds more than what ive managed so far, this is the year though, i can feel it
|
|
|
Post by steev on Oct 24, 2017 0:53:22 GMT -5
There you go, richardw; your feeling will be the assurance they need that their seeds are welcome; gotta encourage.
|
|
|
Post by richardw on Oct 24, 2017 3:06:52 GMT -5
Don't want to sound ungrateful but i'll expect more than just three seeds though.
|
|
|
Post by frstgrl on Oct 29, 2017 9:09:52 GMT -5
Does anyone know where I may buy some true garlic seeds? They aren't easy to find. Thanks!
|
|
|
Post by steev on Oct 29, 2017 19:22:59 GMT -5
Have you checked the "Seeds for sale or trade" posting?
|
|
|
Post by fliver on Oct 29, 2017 23:15:16 GMT -5
You might also try www.garlicana.com it doesn't look like they have seeds for sale but they have garlic that has a tendency to form seeds.
|
|
|
Post by richardw on Nov 2, 2017 23:58:09 GMT -5
Ive discovered reasonably interesting, the first photo is of TGS grown garlic cloves sown in early autumn, they are now very large plants but only just showing the first signs of scape development, the second photo down is of cloves that started to regrow mid summer 10 months ago, these are now smaller plants than the later sown cloves but are far more advanced in scape development. vgy.me/IDpB9X.jpg vgy.me/6gptVA.jpg
|
|
|
Post by ericbernhard on Nov 6, 2017 16:09:07 GMT -5
Does anyone in this thread live in Europe? I have planted garlic the past three years and it has yet to form scapes for me. It might be a cultural error on my part or I am just not planting the right varieties. Perhaps someone else in Europe has better luck than me and would be willing to pass some garlic cloves my way.
|
|
|
Post by richardw on Nov 6, 2017 18:21:11 GMT -5
Sorry i'm about as far away from Europe as you can get, anyway, you may well have one or both of the softneck types that dont generally produce scapes, these are Artichokes and Silverskins. But i do have a softneck growing my in garden this year that came from a friend who had some of hers send up a scape with bulbils, she finds it difficult to get enough water onto hers during summer (off grid & windmill for water pumping)there for the stress can sometime make them produce a scape, i'm going to give them back again and see if the stress can make them do the same again.
|
|