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Is my garlic OK?


Some of my softneck garlic has started to split into multiple stalks. They are also enormous over 1.5 inches in diameter. They see way bigger than comparisons to videos on YouTube. Is this normal? It’s my first year growing garlic. Zone 10b Southern California. Yes, I planted individual cloves.

Thanks so much!

Edit: SOLVED by cjfb62 below. I did pull it because I was so curious. The bulb was over 3” wide. Each new clove sprouted by itself doing a "witches broom". I guess it's still edible but won't keep as long! Darn nitrogen levels and fluctuating temps!

by AvidTaskmaster

24 Comments

  1. ChildhoodSea7062

    Did it cross pollinate with a leek or something?
    */s

  2. notextinctyet

    I…. don’t… know? What am I looking at here?

  3. YuriTh3Panda

    That’s… a girthy boi…only one way to find out how it is! Plant looks healthy tho, maybe a little toooo healthy.

  4. goddamnit666a

    Ma’am I’m sorry to tell you that your garlic either has gigantism or that is not garlic 🤣

  5. boopspookthrowaway

    PLEASE if you dig one up I need to see, this is incredible

  6. small-black-cat-290

    Update us when you pull it. Want to know what it actually is!

  8. cjfb62

    This may be “witches broom” but I’m not sure because I’ve only seen it in my hard neck garlic.

  9. meatjuicetea

    Did you plant grocery store garlic? Might be elephant garlic which is actually a bulbing leek.

  10. tiiiiii_85

    That’s just a hard neck garleek.

    (I’ll let myself out, don’t worry)

  11. 95percentconfident

    You should have it’s pituitary checked!

  12. AnaneSpider

    I planted a lot of garlic and I’m looking at your leaves and thinking maybe I pulled it out bc I thought it was a weed. Ugh.

    Wish I could say it was the first

  14. Apprehensive_Fox9688

    Is it mumbling by any chance?

  15. Zero_Overload

    That isn’t a garlic it’s a pineapple!

  16. question-asker2048

    I am so glad I read the comments and saw this isn’t garlic cuz I just panicked my garlic hasn’t been growing properly since it doesn’t look like this 😭😭

  17. dbthediabolical

    Did you plant a whole bulb? You’re supposed to separate the cloves and plant each one 3-6 inches away from the next one.

  19. Insert_name_here_9

    When recipes say to add 2 cloves of garlic, this must be the type of garlic they are referring to!

  22. dizzo79

    Looks like elephant garlic that’s been in the ground more than 1 season. The smaller side stalks could be corns from the main bulb.

  24. RescuedJuicebox

    Did you plant an entire head of garlic, rather than a single clove? 🙃

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