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No, because of generations of clonal reproduction, it’s actually kind of rare for most garlic to produce true seed. This is an insidious problem because it leaves one of our most important spices wide open to the threat of extinction.
This is why TGS people are working to breed the garlic varieties which DO produce seed, and sometimes wild garlic collected from its native region in Central Asia.
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