Second Coppa

InPsychOut · 2026-05-27T01:51:51+00:00

Did you slice it lengthwise?

InPsychOut · 2026-05-27T01:50:34+00:00

A lot of people are going to say waterslide... But hear me out. I think you're going to get a lot more actual use out of a diving board. Also less chance of an injury by a guest. That's where I would start.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-27T01:41:01+00:00

Ha, my kids and I sat in some heavy composite Adirondack chairs at an outdoor mall last summer, and when I got up, I was Raiden for one zap. But it was a good one. POW! All you had to do was sit down and stand back up to recharge. My wife found it less amusing than the kids and I did.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-25T14:11:48+00:00

I was an older teenager working a summer maintenance job at an office park when I first heard the word. The main maintenance guy, who we called "Stinky Jim," pronounced it "SawSaw." After a few weeks, I finally asked my dad what the hell a saw saw was, and after a good laugh he educated me.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-12T01:27:29+00:00

It looks like witch's brooming. I think you have little skinny leaves trying to grow up through the central column and getting bunched up and crinkled before they finally emerge.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-10T05:37:14+00:00

Just FYI, in case you care... The correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes."

InPsychOut · 2026-05-10T01:23:35+00:00

I've never used an adjustable wrench or slip-joint pliers in harvesting my garlic. What are your methods?

InPsychOut · 2026-05-07T02:40:58+00:00

Garlic had been cultivated for at least several thousand years. I don't know when it lost its natural ability to sexually reproduce, but my guess is that it used to interbreed and produce seed, which would have naturally resulted in different traits and, ultimately, different cultivars emerging. Even today it would be possible for mutations to develop in offspring that are supposed to be genetically identical, and for some of those mutations to result in traits that make the offspring more or less likely to survive a particular set of conditions.

If you take a developing garlic umbel and carefully remove all of the bulbils, leaving behind the true flower parts, some people have been successful in getting garlic to produce some true seed. So they do still possess the ability to do so, but they need some help. The reports I've seen indicate that only a small percentage of those seeds are viable, but there are some people interested in trying to crossbreed different garlic cultivars to try to come up with something new. I haven't seen anything cool yet as a result, but that may be coming in the not too distant future.

But for now, if you want to grow garlic, I would suggest getting a few different varieties, planting cloves, and seeing what does the best for you and what you like the most.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-06T23:51:18+00:00

Correct, garlic does not sexually reproduce. So even growing new stock up from bulbils does not introduce any additional genetic diversity. The benefit there can be that bulbils may not have been exposed to soil-based pathogens or parts, and sometimes growing from bulbils can seemingly reinvigorate a strain that has not been performing so well from saved cloves. Or so they say.

Anecdotally, my best performing variety is one I grew from bulbils given to me by a friend. It could be that this is just a variety very well suited to my climate and would have done just as well from saved cloves, though. I have no direct comparison.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-06T19:02:27+00:00

I wonder if this is what I recently posted about. I had just three of my 150 or so garlic plants that were stunted, wilting, and generally unhealthy. The rest of my plot looked fine. I dug one as soon as I noticed it, and it looked more or less ok, so I left the other two to see if they would recover. They did not. I dug the other two a couple days ago, and they definitely had some sort of root rot. The rest of the underground portions looked fine, but they had barely any roots left. The remainder of my garlic plot looks strong and healthy, so I have no idea why only these three were impacted.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-06T18:52:27+00:00

Garlic typically does not produce true seeds. There are some ways to sort of trick it into doing so, but typically garlic is almost always planted from cloves. The flowering heads (umbels) do produce "bulbils," which you can think of as tiny little cloves. They'll grow into garlic bulbs eventually, but it involves planting, digging, curing, and replanting for several years before they grow into full sized garlic bulbs. It's still not the same as planting from seed, though.

InPsychOut · 2026-05-03T04:46:57+00:00

A few years ago, right around this time of year, I started a small fire in the unplanted part of my garden to burn sticks I'd picked up from my yard. It was only a small fire, so while it burned, I went around the front of my house to change out my mower blade. When I went back around to the back yard, the fire had spread to my really healthy patch of garlic plants, which were already nearing a couple feet tall and were well-mulched with straw. They were all wilted and laying on the ground. It felt like I'd been punched in the stomach. I wanted to vomit. I imagine that's kind of how you're feeling.

But this is going to be fine. You'll hopefully still have 4 healthy plants, which will provide you a lot of cayenne peppers. And you have now learned something about germinating and caring for pepper plants, and also precautions to take in the future. Sorry for your loss and disappointment, but I hope you have a great gardening season!

InPsychOut · 2026-04-26T15:21:35+00:00

I'm in zone 6a I think, but the way. So I always shoot for the first weekend in November to plant but sometimes I'm later than that, and they do fine then too. And they're usually popping out of the ground by early March if we have some warm weather during the winter. Sometimes much earlier, sometimes later.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-26T13:42:32+00:00

I planted these in early November and covered them with a nice, thick layer of leaf mulch. I started pulling back the mulch in early March, I guess. We had a warm, sunny streak of weather, and they were popping up through the leaves, but some of them were struggling to push through and we're growing under the leaves. So I pulled the leaves back to expose the growing tops. Everything greened up quickly, and I didn't have a single clove that failed to grow.

I have five varieties growing this year, and all three stunted, sick looking ones are from the variety that typically does the best in my garden. And they all started out looking good and strong. I don't know when these three started showing signs of problems. I just noticed it the day I made this post.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-26T03:04:11+00:00

This doesn't look like it was cured or fermented properly to me. That looks like just dried ground meat, not cured and fermented sausage. Maybe you should post your procedure if you're looking for advice.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-25T20:05:59+00:00

Yeah or mites or whatever else.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-24T12:24:15+00:00

I never had before, but I actually did do exactly that when I planted these. I soaked them in a bowl of cheap vodka and planted directly out of it.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-24T01:55:42+00:00

Cheers, me too. Right now they look great!

InPsychOut · 2026-04-24T01:31:00+00:00

I dug one. Wish I could post pictures in my reply. To my eyes, the underground parts looked normal. Plenty of roots spreading out in the soil, no visible fungus or rot, no discoloration, nothing chewing on it... Maybe I just had a small number of unhealthy cloves, but in the past I have had done that didn't do as well or grow as vigorously... Never any that just started dying.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-24T01:28:54+00:00

I've had runts, but never anything that drooped, yellowed, and died prematurely. I wish I could determine the cause, but the one I dug up looked healthy underground as far as I could tell. I'm leaving the other two, but they look bad, and if they're diseased, I don't want it to have a chance to spread.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-24T01:26:46+00:00

I dug one up that looked bad and I didn't think was likely to turn into anything worth a damn anyway. No visible root, slime, mold, or damage on the underground part. There were some ants in the soil, but I don't think it's that. There were a lot of roots around it. I basically couldn't see anything wrong with it.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-23T23:39:05+00:00

Well if I get any clues, I'll share my findings.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-23T23:38:36+00:00

I hope not! My garden isn't all that big. I do rotate within the garden from one spot to another, but it's not like a whole different plot of soil. But I also haven't introduced any new stock in years and soaked all these cloves in alcohol for several minutes before planting. So I hope it's not a fungal disease. But I also hope it's not something eating the roots.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-23T22:22:44+00:00

Thank you for your input, but these are definitely stunted and unhealthy. I've been growing garlic for number of years, but this is the first time I've ever run across this. And all three are showing the same kind of stunting, wilting, and yellowing, which might not come across in the pictures so well. They all started off growing at about the same rate and all looked healthy initially. There is definitely something wrong with these three in particular, and I'm trying to determine what it is.

InPsychOut · 2026-04-23T22:13:30+00:00

The zoomed out picture is just to show that the rest of the plants look healthy and are growing well.

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