"Cerumen" wrote in message
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"shazzbat" wrote in message
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When you grow garlic from a clove, and you get (hopefully) a bulb
consisting of several cloves round a central core, what happened to
the
original clove you planted? Does that one become the central core,
or does
it wither away like a seed potato?

I have always assumed it is the central core that is found in the
bulb.

I think that's true, in simple terms: left to itself, it would go on
producing leaves and finally a flowering stalk if allowed to grow on in
the same cycle. That's why you have to eat it rather than plant it. I
wonder, though, if one _did_ plant it in good conditions, it might
produce some weak new cloves, but after another season, and having used
most of its energy for flowering; but I've never tried, so probably it
just flowers and dies.

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Mike.




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