I think you are growing softneck (smaller and not as hot a flavour) and I am growing hard neck. I don't know if you should cut the centre stalk off or not. I didn't know there was two kinds. This is just what I found at the Co-op. Just got lucky. Scape paste is so yummy. Sadly, the community garden group has a communal garlic crop and they threw out the scapes because they didn't know they were edible. 😢