Garlic Arrow Removal

The shoots of garlic are green shoots in which seed bulbs ripen in their inflorescences. When there is no goal to grow a vegetable crop to obtain seeds, it is only important to achieve high yields, gardeners remove the shoots to get large garlic heads. They do this at certain times and according to certain rules.

Arrows at the garlic

Why remove the arrows

At the winter garlic planted in autumn at the very beginning of summer, feathers are fully formed and green begin to grow arrows with inflorescences at the top.The beginning of the arrow is taken in the middle of the foliage, from the neck of the bulb. As a result, everything climbed biological elements begin to redistribute from the bulb towards the process, supporting its active development, therefore, among the main reasons why it is necessary to break the arrows of garlic, note:

• a decrease in the yield of a vegetable crop by about a third,
• chopping the heads of garlic,
• a delay in the ripening of the crop for 2 weeks or longer.

The shoots of garlic require a large amount of nutrients, therefore for full ripening seed is the outflow of biologically active substances, zade buckle arrangement of garlic heads.

Many gardeners note that if you remove the bulk of the shoots of garlic, the onions begin to grow and grow again, but some prefer to leave a few green shoots that act as an indicator of the ripening of the garlic and determine its maturity, receiving seed from the left seed boxes in the future.

Deletion dates

It’s necessary to remove the arrows on time

If you need to break off the arrows at the garlic, select This is one of two approaches:

• In the first case, it is recommended to start the process of cutting off the green shoots as soon as possible, as soon as they become noticeable. As a result, plant growth and head formation occurs without interrupting developmental stages. This method of cutting off the arrows has a drawback: even early plucking of a barely appearing process does not prevent its further growth and development without the tip. The procedure for tearing off the arrows has to be repeated, sometimes more than once.
• In the second case, tearing off the arrows is advised when they begin to twist. This method of removal eliminates their secondary appearance, because they do not have time to grow again until the time of harvest.Here, too, there is a drawback: during full development until the time of twisting, the green shoots manage to take a lot of useful biological elements from the plant, which will certainly affect the size of the future crop and its ripening period.

The most optimal to remove the arrows is the time when they reach a length of about 10-15 cm. In this case, there is a chance that they will not have time to grow again. At the same time, the green shoots managed to take not so many mineral components from the plant.

Removal rules

There are several methods for how to properly break the arrows, which do not fundamentally differ from each other friend. The basic rule is accuracy during the procedure in order to preserve the integrity of the plant:

• the arrow is not pulled out to avoid tearing the plant stem, which leads to its subsequent drying out and affects the yield,
• process do not pull out from the stem so as not to damage the root system and not tear the plant together with the root.

In the first embodiment, they are not torn off, but removed by breaking off with the hands or pinching at the very base, where the arrow is more fragile.

It’s better to work with the secateurs

In this The removal method has its drawbacks:

• when pinching, an uneven cut is formed, which takes a long time,
• there is a danger of damaging the plant along with the root system.

The second option for removing garlic shoots is done by pruning with pruning shears or clippers, especially when the shoots are already numb. Young people are easily trimmed with simple stationery scissors.

Regardless of the method chosen, the best time for picking arrows from garlic is morning. It is more advisable to do this in sunny weather: this will make it possible to cut the plants to dry. The shoot is not cut off at the very base, but at a distance of about 1 cm from it. This prevents damage to the stem.

When you do not need to be removed

In some circumstances garlic shoots do not remove.

You do not need to pick off the arrows at the garlic if you need to rejuvenate the crop. The rejuvenation procedure is carried out every 3-5 years to obtain good yields.

Shoots of winter garlic can produce several hundred bulbs with seed material.

For receiving seed in the summer leave several shoots for their further maturation.They need to grow until mid-August, it is by this time that the seeds ripen. Plants are collected in bunches and suspended to dry for 3-4 weeks. The dried boxes are cut from the stems, put into paper packaging and stored until planting.

The use of shoots

Gardeners actively use cut garlic shoots on the infield as a means against some pests, including aphids and spider mites. For this purpose, their week insist in water at the rate of 0.5 kg arrows per 3-liter volume of liquid, then strain and fill with water to a 10-liter volume. Garden crops are sprayed with the resulting liquid at four-day intervals.