The growth characteristics of garlic inner bud in normal temperature storage and the optimum starting cold storage date with Songcheng garlic had been studied. The results showed that the dormancy period of Songcheng garlic had passed during the earlier stage of August, or 70-75 d after harvest. When the dormancy period had passed, the garlic inner bud be- gan to growslowly under normal temperature and grewrapidly at the end of August. On September 1st the average length of inner bud was 1.81 cmand it was 2...