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Post by jbl4430 on May 23, 2013 19:37:05 GMT -5
I planted elephant garlic corms last November and April two times. April plant corms no sprout and November plant sprout half. Now I digged and confirmed what is hapened in the soil. November plant corms are change colour and useless, April plant corms are still same condition as planting time. Somebody from Tennese told me her elephant garlic corms don't sprout. Who knows why some germinate and some not?  November plant corms.  April plant bulbils. |
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Post by raymondo on May 24, 2013 16:47:18 GMT -5
I'm not sure why this happens. I have left corms in the ground and they have never sprouted. The casing is quite hard. It might be worth peeling a few to see if that makes a difference to germination.
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Post by steev on May 24, 2013 23:46:36 GMT -5
They're barely worth planting unless the hulls are broken; you might try marketing them as "Sacred Himalayan Garlic" for the alleviation of many vague physical conditions, to those with more money than sense.
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Post by jbl4430 on May 25, 2013 5:50:22 GMT -5
I'm not sure why this happens. I have left corms in the ground and they have never sprouted. The casing is quite hard. It might be worth peeling a few to see if that makes a difference to germination. I peeled or broken top skin,but still same. |
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Post by steev on May 27, 2013 23:27:40 GMT -5
It seems odd that a plant would put that much energy into production of something of such limited use. Could it be that the corms are like emergency reserves that need stratification to produce or that they aren't programmed to grow until enough time has passed for the hull to deteriorate, perhaps outlasting conditions that would kill less dormant forms of the plant?
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Post by Drahkk on May 28, 2013 21:32:22 GMT -5
I remember reading somewhere that you could get about 50% germination from them by presoaking for 24-36 hours. Never tested it, though. There's a big clump of the stuff by my fence, and at Mr Prince's place there is a huge clump by the back porch, three smaller ones by the shed, and a row of clumps in the garden on the other side of the peach trees from my tomatoes. Way more than we need; so we've never had a need to propagate it.
MB
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Post by jbl4430 on May 29, 2013 6:28:15 GMT -5
I remember reading somewhere that you could get about 50% germination from them by presoaking for 24-36 hours. Never tested it, though. There's a big clump of the stuff by my fence, and at Mr Prince's place there is a huge clump by the back porch, three smaller ones by the shed, and a row of clumps in the garden on the other side of the peach trees from my tomatoes. Way more than we need; so we've never had a need to propagate it. MB Some country need to propagate it because of seed elephant garlic is really expensive. One bulb cost is 10 dollar,so many gardener buy one to three and try to multiply. |
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Post by steev on May 30, 2013 18:34:48 GMT -5
I bought heads at my produce market at the "dumping-season" price: $2.98@; normal price is $3.98. I regret not buying a bunch when they had rounds by the pound.
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Post by paquebot on May 30, 2013 19:58:29 GMT -5
Elephant garlic corms need no extra care in order to grow. They simply do not all come to life in the same season. I've had them show up as much as 3 years after the last mature plants were removed from a bed. That's also why one sees huge thick feral stands establish in short order. There are more plants which come up from corms than from cloves.
Martin
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Post by grampathom on May 12, 2017 1:38:40 GMT -5
Pay attentionto paquebot. I have some sprouting 4 years after growing elephant garlic in a patch in my side yard. The corms will
sprout when they are ready
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Post by davidp on Aug 4, 2017 19:21:55 GMT -5
Pay attentionto paquebot. I have some sprouting 4 years after growing elephant garlic in a patch in my side yard. The corms will sprout when they are ready Take a nail-clippers tool and cut off the top sharp-peaked top of the corm, so that you can easily see inside at the bulbil within. Soak for 24-48 hours in water, and then plant. You will get sprouts (if planted in early fall or mid spring) within 2-4 weeks. Try it, it works. |
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Post by vashti on Apr 17, 2020 21:08:51 GMT -5
" You will get sprouts (if planted in early fall or mid spring) within 2-4 weeks. "
Thank you so much for this info - it's the only place I've found, so far, that gives an approximate germination time!
I planted 17 peeled corms into a germinating pot, and set them next to my germinating tomato seeds in a heat mat.
The tomatoes were up on day 4, and it's a week later and still buying from the corms. I was starting to worry - now I know not to bother (worrying) fur at least another 3 weeks!
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