Cristo garlic

Don't grow Cristo myself but I checked a number of garden bloggers who do and none show pix of multiple stems, only a single stem.

But, one blogger says his Cristo is more for foliage, so obviously he gets a lot. No idea why.

Sounds like it's these particular bulbs then. Not sure how useful the crop will be from them, but I guess that's a good reason for doing a few different varieties.  I grew Marco for a couple of years but although they gave a decent crop I never seemed to get very big bulbs from them. Thermidrome and Iberian Wight are my current favourites because both have been giving me some very big bulbs and cloves for the last couple of years.

yes, on all 4 varieties

Well, unless Cristo are a bit more or less tender than the other 3 varieties, I don't know how it could be temps or stuff like that because all of them were planted at the same time in the same bed. I have a feeling Cristo were the first to show and the only ones with much shoot above the ground when the snow and bad weather hit, but I'm not sure. But of the two rows of Cristo, I think there's just one that's a normal single shoot and all the rest have two or three shoots, which is bizarre. One or two I could believe, but almost all of them?

Not sure about the variety but I also have a few plants with multi stems . I planted about fifty cloves in late October about half a dozen have multi stems . They all came from the same stock given as a gift by another plot holder the year before and they all grew well so I saved a few to plant out this season.
I have planted some round the boarders and some in a bed all the ones in the bed are normal just the odd one in the boarders have the milti stems.

I planted 4 varieties of garlic last autumn, my old favourites Iberian Wight and Thermidrome, plus 2 new varieties, Cristo and Music. All of them are growing on well, but I'm puzzled by the Cristo. Almost every clove of Cristo has put up 2 or 3 shoots per clove. It can't be environmental because none of the other garlics have done it, so it must be related to the variety or the specific bulbs. Has anyone grown Cristo before? If so, did you get multiple shoots from them?

Hi. As I understand it the cloves, while appearing to be large singles when planted, can sometimes consist of several cloves within. I always end up with a few which have 'split' and never noticed that it happens with any particular variety. Regarding the colder weather having an effect I believe that garlic really loves a period of very cold weather at an early stage.
Apart from several other varieties, all autumn planted,  I have planted Thermidrome for the first time and looking forward to seeing how they have done. They were certainly the first to shoot and have continued to be, or appear to be, ahead of the rest.