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I've never seen this before and I can find no mention of it anywhere on the internet...

One (and I hope that's all!) of my autumn-planted garlic plants is sending up chive-like shoots. I thought it was grass at first, but then more appeared around the stem.

What's happening, and why?

I'm wondering if it's bolting hun? boo hoo, my autumn planted onions all bolted this week.

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But nothing is happening to the main stem - there is no flower stalk forming.

Occasionally my leeks and elephant garlic do this and it's cos they have an extra bulb (bulbil) forming at the base.
I assume you broke the bulb up into cloves?
Sometimes when you peel garlic there's a extra bulb on the side, maybe the garlic you planted had these (without you noticing?)
Hopefully the cloves forming will be fine, I know when the elephant garlic does this the side bulbs are titchy and they go straight in the compost!

Interesting.

I definitely broke up the bulb - I've grown garlic for several years without a problem.

I remember that they were big bulbs and had a lot of cloves, but then this is the first time I'ver tried Solent Wight.

I am with Vicky , as I got a couple of garlic plant done this last year (this year too) and I harvested more than 1 bulbs from a single clove source. The bulbs form from this splitting are usually significantly smaller than those producing single bulb !

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With shallots, if you plant large shallots you get a lot of small shallots.

Conversely,small shallots planted give you just a few large shallots!

Could be the same with garlic spose?

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Shallots and garlic are opposite - choose the smaller (inch circumference) shallot sets, but the largest garlic cloves.

I didn't think my garlic cloves were small, but there were a lot. I chose 12 and chucked the rest on the compost.

I've not come across that before - do you think that my original bulb - which was very big - could have been a bit of a rogue?

Of course, it's very odd that only one plant (out of a dozen) is behaving this way!!

I don't know the real explanation CC but my garlic has that tendency.
From the last year harvest, I noticed that some small amount of the cloves has actually 2 to 3 cloves inside but wore a single husk / wrapping. I think my garlic plant that split were planted from those twin/triplet clove. Could it be that is what happening to your garlic too ?
Too bad I don't know my garlic cultivar name and can't compare note.

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