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Way to do it Where can I get hold of these seeds ?

The best way to do it is find someone who is growing TGS. there’s a behind-the-scenes movement for this that seems to be slowly growing. You live in India, right? If so I don’t think any of the sources I know of will be helpful at all. You’ll have to find local people who are doing this. Probably a locally based permaculture forum would be your best bet. You’re looking for garlic which was grown from the seeds produced by the actual flowers of the plant, not the bulbs (growing in the dirt) or the bulbils (which come out at the top of the plant where you’d expect to find a flower, and which often crowd out flowers and prevent true seeds from forming). True garlic seed looks like onion seed, small and black, not a white or purple clove of garlic. It needs special treatment in order to harvest and germinate. What I planted are bulbs (what people normally plant when they plant garlic) which have either produced true seed, were grown from true seed, or which are from a variety known to produce true seed. #tgs #truegarlicseed #garlic #garlicstr #garden #grownostr

Awesome!

Gateway garlic farms is awesome. Ive seen his posts on fb for years. Good luck growing on the seed!

I have mentioned to him he should come to Nostr. He belongs here

Ah so you planted the bulb that came from a true seed, I’ll try and find someone with either the bulbs or true seeds So when your garlic is ready to be harvested, can you save some bulbs for next plantation or does your harvest needs to produce seeds ? What I mean is does the new bulbs still considered as “true seeds” if you keep growing them from bulbs or you have to switch to actual seeds from time to time ? I’m in North America for now , so will try and find it locally Thanks

True seed only refers to the black seeds formed from the flowers of the plant. If you sow true seed, the plant that grows would be called true seed progeny. I planted some bulbs of true seed progeny. Garlicana farm in Oregon is currently selling true seed progeny that you can plant as bulbs! You have to physically mail them payment, though, no credit card or Venmo or bitcoin yet https://www.garlicana.com/garlic-varieties/true-seed-progeny/ You can also get your garlic where I did, from Gateway Garlic Farms, and pay with Venmo, but his inventory of TGS-related garlic is much lower. His website is not accurate and you can only reach him through Facebook and Facebook Messenger. These are the two TGS sources I know of in North America, but I’m sure there are more; check out forums like Permies! You can grow clones of true seed progeny by planting their bulbs for years and years if you wish! But ultimately my goal is to assist in the effort of increasing genetic diversity in the garlic crop by breeding TGS-producing garlic varieties and planting their seeds, hopefully producing varieties that easily set much seed, and also have delicious bulbs.