1. Apr 28, 2020
  2. 10:12:00 AM
  3. 1 Days
 🌼 Success

#24: Regrow Garlic From Kitchen Bulb

  1. 🌱 Garlic
Garlic Kitchen

Regrow Garlic for greens.

Select a good sized and healthy looking garlic.
Select a good sized and healthy looking garlic.
Remove the outer layer. Batch #002 shows that clove grow faster if you remove all the skin and expose the white flesh.
Remove the outer layer. Batch #002 shows that clove grow faster if you remove all the skin and expose the white flesh.
Don't use the tiny cloves in the center, as they have low yield.
Don't use the tiny cloves in the center, as they have low yield.
Separate into individual cloves. Select a good-sized clove.
Separate into individual cloves. Select a good-sized clove.
I maintain the basal plate of most of the cloves, to see if they make any difference.
I maintain the basal plate of most of the cloves, to see if they make any difference.
I use an plastic egg container to grow the garlic bulb in water, so that it could easily stand.
I use an plastic egg container to grow the garlic bulb in water, so that it could easily stand.
Water should cover 0.5 to 1cm of the clove base.
Water should cover 0.5 to 1cm of the clove base.
I grow them indoor near the window this time.
I grow them indoor near the window this time.

Day 2 -
  1. Apr 29, 2020
  2. 1:05:00 PM

I decide to change water daily.

Some ants are eating the garlic.

Day 3 -
  1. Apr 30, 2020
  2. 10:32:00 AM

Change water daily.

Day 8 -
  1. May 5, 2020
  2. 1:19:00 PM

Experiment

One of the cloves skin turn dark, so I peel of the skin to see if anything turn bad in the inside. It seems fine.

Let's see if this glove with peeled skin actually grow faster.

Day 18 -
  1. May 15, 2020
  2. 10:21:00 AM

Experiment

It has been a long time with no roots growing. #2 grow roots within 7 days.

Internet says garlic germinate around 10 to 20C, and will not sprout if temperature above 25C. #2 which germinated within 7 days was put at the balcony, which is much hotter than indoor temperature.

I will experiment putting a few cloves at the balcony to see if it makes any difference.

Original cloves indoor near window, not roots.
Original cloves indoor near window, not roots.
A container for the new experiment.
A container for the new experiment.
I pick 3 cloves to put outdoor, remove the skin for one of the clove.
I pick 3 cloves to put outdoor, remove the skin for one of the clove.
Dip bottom 1cm of the cloves in water.
+2

Day 22 -
  1. May 19, 2020
  2. 10:45:00 AM

Lesson

One of the cloves moved outdoor has grown roots. The roots grown on top of the basal plate (so it means the basal plate is pretty much useless and should be removed).

Maybe some heat or sunlight also help garlic sprout faster.

Day 25 -
  1. May 22, 2020
  2. 8:17:00 PM

Move the remaining cloves outdoor to see if they roots faster.

Day 28 -
  1. May 25, 2020
  2. 11:38:00 AM

Root Sprout

1 clove with roots and sprout.
1 clove with roots.
1 clove (without skin) nothing yet.

Day 29 -
  1. May 26, 2020
  2. 11:58:00 AM

Transplant

Create a planting box for garlic green.

2 of 3 cloves has grown roots.
2 of 3 cloves has grown roots.
Plant the clove with roots in pot to harvest the green.
Plant the clove with roots in pot to harvest the green.
Another clove with roots.
Another clove with roots.
This egg shall pot is too shallow and the water evaporated too often.
+2

Day 29 -
  1. May 26, 2020
  2. 12:19:00 PM

Fertilize the planting box with coffee grounds.

Day 39 -
  1. Jun 5, 2020
  2. 10:19:00 AM

Not sure if they are doing well or not.

Day 39 -
  1. Jun 5, 2020
  2. 10:28:00 AM

The remaining garlics are not growing roots.

Day 44 -
  1. Jun 10, 2020
  2. 2:49:00 PM

Root

Some cloves start to grow roots.

Day 50 -
  1. Jun 16, 2020
  2. 10:57:00 AM

Root

Most of the garlic has grown roots, and some has sprouted.

Day 56 -
  1. Jun 22, 2020
  2. 5:38:00 PM

Transplant

All the garlics has sprouted roots, will transplant them in soil together with #40.

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