Leek Bulbils - Lieven Leeks

[12540dumont]

So, I harvested all the leeks. OMG now I have 300 bulbils.

I cannot find any information as to when to re-plant them. In my gut I feel like if I replant them now, they will go to flower. So do I hold them over to Fall? Remember I'm on the West Coast. If anyone finds any scholarly articles for replanting LEEK bulbils on the West Coast, let me know. Everything I could find was UK or VT. Which of course doesn't help as the sun, the heat, everything is different. I normally plant alliums twice, once in the spring and once in the fall. The fall leeks are what I just harvested. Dare I re-plant the bulbils?

Should I experiment and plant half now? Ack. I have never gotten Leek bulbils before. Lieven Lieven Lieven, all these bulbils came from your Leeks. Help!

[mnjrutherford]

Why not put a few to ground now and the rest later? Can you afford the time/space/labor for such an experiment?

[trixtrax]

Just plant the bulbils at a depth twice the diameter of the bulbil. Mark them since they take a while to come back up. But, really you don't even need to replant leek/elephant garlic bulbils if you want to create a nice clump. Btw are these from the base bulbs or are they aerial bulbils?

[12540dumont]

These are all from the base. Some of them started to sprout greens, but most of them were within the first layer of skin of the mother leek.

[ilex]

I've seen some sprouts flower, more or less at the same time the mother does. These are more plants dividing before flowering, than true bulbils.

I don't think bulbils will flower so early. Just think that you can leave them in the soil and they will come up sometime and flower the follwing spring. Some sprout right away, without making a bulb, while others make a bulb and do a summer rest, sprouting late summer, early fall.

Unless you are eating those leeks, I prefer to leave them in the soil longer to get more/bigger bulbils.