Growing Garlic From True Seed
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Garlic is typically grown from clones, but it is possible to grow from true seed. Join Joseph Lofthouse, author of Landrace Gardening, in his garden in Utah has he talks about why, and how.
I tried my hand at letting a couple of my garlic plants go to seed using the "clear away the bulbil" method. They managed to produce about 24 seeds between them. Right now I have two healthy-looking seedlings of my German hardneck. We'll see how they do this summer! Pretty darn excited, I have to say. It's only a start...I have new varieties planted last fall and plan to help some go to seed for next year.
Thanks for sharing, that's a big accomplishment. Do you have multiple varieties that can cross pollinate this summer? That might give you stronger plants and more to choose from in the future.
@@landracegardening5631 Last fall I planted an additional 4 varieties to the previous two and plan to help a few more produce seeds. With any luck, I'll have a small start to a southeast Montana garlic landrace that can easily produce true seeds.
It's been about a year. How are things coming along?
I just "harvested" some bulbils and I'm going to let 4 plants (hopefully) pollinate and go to seed. I'll do much more next year, but it's to late to apply what this wonderful video just taught me this year.
One of the two seedlings survived and produced a round so it is growing out in my garlic bed this year. The mother plant was a German porcelain and the round I planted had the white bulb look but the plant growing looks more like the other variety I had growing at the time (Fireball from Territorial Seeds) which is a weaker stemmed purple stripe or marbled type)...so I'm thinking I have a cross. So far so good. I planted a few new to me types this year and am letting one plant of each complete their scape cycle. I have about ten scapes starting to uncurl and stand up straight....getting ready for the action! Last summer's seed production was a bust due to an untimely microburst with heavy hail that damaged all of my garlic scapes.
@@hullbarrett One of the two seedlings survived and produced a round so it is growing out in my garlic bed this year. The mother plant was a German porcelain and the round I planted had the white bulb look but the plant growing looks more like the other variety I had growing at the time (Fireball from Territorial Seeds) which is a weaker stemmed purple stripe or marbled type)...so I'm thinking I have a cross. So far so good. I planted a few new to me types this year and am letting one plant of each complete their scape cycle. I have about ten scapes starting to uncurl and stand up straight....getting ready for the action! Last summer's seed production was a bust due to an untimely microburst with heavy hail that damaged all of my garlic scapes.
I have run into tons of people talking about your work with garlic but none in detail. I would really appreciate some longer videos about the history of garlic and how we got to where we are now as well as more detail about your process of how we can get seeds back from you if it's a video you have time to make!
Hey Comrade Bumblejack, (Julia here) thanks for this recommendation, I'll see if Joseph wants to! If you're interested in vegetables in general, consider signing up for the online course and community :) Lots more content and seed swapping too. There's a scholarship option for anybody worried about the cost. modernLandraces.com
I am going to try this. I had good luck with garlic when farming in Washington state but since we moved to France, my garlic expertise is not working. I don't know why. I do better with my own cloves year on year but they are still small. I will let some go to seed and select on them over the next few years. BTW, I have been doing research on landraces for over 25 years, but I learn something new every day. Thanks Joseph.
I didn't realize you had a RUclips channel. You just got one new subscriber.
Wow! So glad David the Good shared about your work.
Great work! Keep it up!
Going to try this out
This sounds like truly great work! getting new variants is as important as being able to keep individual variants. you can only adapt variants to regions with sexual reproduction. I love this story! I longed to know if it was possible to sexually reproduce garlic for a long time and you answered this! Thank you!
I really want to do this. I’ve got my true potato seeds which I collected and would love to get some true garlic seeds too. I tried bulbil removal on my one garlic scape last year, but sadly no seeds 😢
I have a single garlic plant that scaped on my allotment. Hope I get some viable seeds especially if they crossed with other allium on the site.
I can’t even find garlic seed. I’d love to try it!
I have always used cloves, will have to look at my garlics this year and see if I can get any seeds from them.
Good luck! Let us know how it goes. The Garlicana website is a good place to learn more about which varieties are more likely to produce seed
@@landracegardening5631how are things going with the garlic seeds?
Elephant garlic being more towards a leak do you think it could produce seed?
What variety of garlic did U use?
I’m gonna try my hand at this, ordered some purple stripes because I read they are the most ancient type most likely to seed. growing them over the winter here in socal. maybe with selective breeding I can make a adapted hard neck cultivar to my area that could grow better in hotter conditions
How did it go?
@@xaviercruz4763 still growing, they’re getting bigger with summer on the horizon. fast too. They were nice and squat all spring and winter. then may comes and they get way taller. I’m expecting flowering to happen somewhere in June or July. When that happens I will remove all the bulbs that form and hand pollinate. I already harvested my soft neck garlic. chesnok red is the hard neck I planted
Hello you have an idea about how many garlic plants are needed to make viable genetics. I’m actively trying to get garlic seed for 2 years now this year looks super positive, but my question is for example corn you need 100+ plants but broccoli rhabi is 12 or more I think what would you say is garlic? I would love a consult on this how can I get in contact can I get a email possibly? Thanks love the video and I subscribed🤙🏻
So corn needs more than one plant to make viable seed?
Can you recommend any extremely cold hardy varieties of garlic to work with? I live in a zone 2 climate. Also, where could a person purchase varieties that have been started from true seed?
look in to hardnecks that produce bulbilles,garlic comes naturali from some of the coldest places on earth;)
Garlic is already naturally cold hardly they are used to freezing central Asian winters
Do I understand, two different hardneck cultivars can cross-pollinate to create a new cultivar?
any 2 cultivars of same species
I accidentally got some true seeds. Wondering when to plant theses seeds. Thanks.
Plant them in the spring if you live somewhere cold so they can form their bulbs and over winter. if you live somewhere hot like me you plant them in the fall or winter.