Single garlic

I found out that single garlic is grown from garlic seed, not bulbs. In the first year, the seed grow into a round ball without division. It is in the second year of growth that they grow bigger and split into cloves.

Single garlic are good in making black garlic, easier to peel, but only if they are big.

According to information, only Rocambole variety of garlic gives big size bulb. 

 

Rocambole garlic seed

Rocambole garlic shoots

So I ordered the seed and grow them last November, I harvested the bulbs now, the biggest ones are only size of small grapes!!

It is good that after years of growing garlic from bulbs, I learned to grow from seed, but disappointing to find these single garlic so small. May be weather and soil are not good enough. 

Rocambole garlic one year bulbils

I will plant the bigger bulbs this November and collect the seeds next summer, and try the experiment again.