Godawgs, it would appear that this forming of bulbils in the pseudostem can be done by a number of different groups within the weakly bolting garlics, there are four different groups that make up the weakly bolters, the Asiatics, Creoles, Middle Eastern and Turbans. Of interest to note, several garlics imported to Oz as Middle Eastern are now considered non-bolting Artichokes and produce the stem bulbils you have. Not sure if leaving them in the ground for an extended time had anything to do with the bulbils forming, weather while growing may have had more to do with it.
Those that you have that have opened up and started to side shoot would have kept growing if left. Those cloves would have grown very large and as long as you can cure them will keep as well as a standard globe, good for home use. Jaden some Monaro Purple do that 2 or 3 years ago, cloves were about double the size of the best normal cloves.
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