Thanks, Richard.
I removed a few small ones, where there were a lot of flowers cw a few topsets, and just left the ones that had mostly topsets and a few flowers. I will just let those mature for planting and not worry about the few little blooms. Most of them seem to be producing a flower on the second stalk above the first round of topsets. They were close enough together to brush a few flowers against one another hoping to get the cross pollination going... haven't seen any pollinators on these although maybe it was the wrong time of day. They have a lot of competition in the herb garden, so many things are flowering just now.
I was reading that there is a topsetting type of shallot.
Now that would be really cool to have! Maybe my shallots will produce some flowers next year, or eventually! on a year that the Egyptians do, and if/when that happens I'll try to create one.
Your white skinned bulb looks pretty cool btw. Look forward to see more of your growout.