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Originally Posted by Durgan
Most garlic is very similar. If you have a good crop perpetuate that. There is never any new breeds of garlic since all crossing is impossible because the seeds are sterile. They produce but perfect clones of the parent. Go to a garlic festival and look around. Almost all garlic is the same. Some is a little different in size but this is normal depending upon growing conditions. Rhetoric looks after the rest.
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There are people working to breed new garlic varieties. The actual seeds take some effort to produce, but they're not sterile. They're usually referred to as "true garlic seed" (or TGS) because many people will refer to the bulbils (little bulbs) as "garlic seed". The bulbils grow out of the flower head and produce the perfect clones of the parent plant that you described.
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