Bulbils on Cardamine bulbifera. A bulbil (also referred to as a bulbel, bulblet, and/or pup) is a small, young plant that is reproduced vegetatively from axillary buds on the parent plant's stem... WhatareBulbils? So you may be wondering, whatarebulbils? Simply put, bulbilsare the offspring of their parent plant. How to Grow Bulbils. Growing garlic from bulbilsis relatively straightforward. They may be planted at a similar distance as garlic cloves, roughly 4-5 inches apart. GROWING FROM BULBILSBulbilsare planted at the same time as your cloves of garlic, around mid-October here in the Ottawa Valley. Make a furrow about an inch deep, with the rows... Whatarebulbils?Garlic bulbilsare also edible! Peel them and cook them how you would any garlic. They’re sweeter and milder, and make excellent additions to pestos, salsas, or chilis. On some occasions, I offer bulbils for sale. Whatarebulbils- can you plant them, can you eat them? I’ll answer that all with a simple “yes” to start and then offer some caveats. When bulbils detach from the parent plant and fall on the ground, they germinate into new plants and serve as a means of vegetative propagation. In Agave and Allium... A bulbilis not a true seed, but a clone of the parent plant, therefor no pollination is involved in the process. You can be sure that the bulbils will be true-to-type of the parent plant. Whatarebulbils? The usual method for growing garlic is to break each bulb (the part that grows under the ground) into cloves, and to replant the cloves separately in autumn. One garlic plant can produce over 50 bulbils but may only grow between four and ten cloves. Bulbilsare more available, although they take a year or two longer to reach a full bulbing size. WhatareBulbils?Bulbil Formation. Bulbils form through a process called adventitious budding, where certain plant tissues undergo specialized growth to develop into new structures. (This article discusses top-setting garlic bulbils, which many people call “garlic seed.” They’re technically clones of the parent plant, rather than true seed produced by sexual... A bulbilis a little propagule, a little bit of clonal vegetative propagation material. Essentially, it’s a seed of garlic. But here’s the thing, it’s not an actual seed. Select them from the cultivar's product page drop-down menu. Each product page provides information about how many bulbilsare, on average, contained within each umbel.
