This is my second year with garlic.
I planted about 300 cloves Dec 10, which is a little late for our region.
I may have gotten a bit larger if planted earlier.
Somewhere I read to wait until about 3 bottom leaves are dead and that's pretty much what I pulled by.
I hung it the next day, and I've had a fan on it ever since (about 2 weeks). It's almost dry.