Garlic is a seed that can flower, and garlic seeds on top of garlic can be planted.

Why not plant garlic seeds? To answer this question we need a rudimentary understanding of garlic reproduction. Garlic seeds, that is, garlic seeds, in the production of seed meaning is different from the meaning of botanical seeds, production, will be able to develop into a plant of all things can be called seeds.

That is to say, there are two kinds of garlic seeds, one is the garlic cloves used in our current production, which is only the vegetative body-organ of garlic from the part of garlic. And there was also a so-called true seed, which was the seed produced after garlic bloomed! Never seen garlic bloom? No wonder, most people have never seen it, but garlic farmers have seen it, which is the small garlic cloves that bloom on the garlic sprouts after forgetting to sprout in the garlic fields, very, very small!

Don't think this garlic doesn't have the ability to grow and develop. Like garlic cloves, it can also develop into garlic plants. But why don't garlic cloves above garlic sprouts be used for planting in current agricultural production? There must be a reason, the following scientific agriculture will come to say for you.

Those who had seen this kind of garlic cloves should know that garlic cloves were very small. After sowing, the most intuitive reaction was that the seedlings grew weak. Even if the nutrition supply was good in the later stage, it was difficult to harvest larger garlic cloves at the time of harvest. Even if the nutrition was not sufficient, single garlic cloves would appear. In this case, it would become a single garlic. This situation is obviously not worthwhile for farmers who aim to harvest garlic, and it is certainly not possible to obtain high production efficiency.

Garlic cloves underground become another alternative, relying on vegetative organs to reproduce. Garlic cloves are rich in nutrients, including the bud center in the middle, which provides rich nutrients for germination. And vegetative reproduction has another big advantage: there is no genetic change, that is, there will be no genetic segregation due to genetic variation in successive years of planting, and there will be low-yield garlic. More factors affecting yield were transferred to environmental factors.

However, the situation is very different for garlic petal reproduction based on garlic stem, because the upper part will accept foreign pollen due to flowering and flowering, and the middle will undergo mutation due to chromosome recombination. This does not guarantee garlic production.

To sum up, we can see that the garlic seeds at the top of garlic are not suitable for garlic seeds.

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