Sandy, by and large, the Creole bulbs tend to run a bit smaller than the hardneck and softneck bulbs. Of course some varieties of hard and softneck are smaller bulbs, but some of what I grow will have 1/4 lb. bulbs. For many decades, the Creole was considered to be a sub-variety of the silverskins, so there really wasn't a category called "Creole". A decade ago DNA research showed the Creole to be a distinct family of garlic and thus there are now three main categories of garlic.
Planting the larger cloves and giving those cloves room to expand into bulbs will certainly produce larger bulbs. I look forward to your harvesting the Creole and telling all of us how they look. Did you tell me that you mulch your garlic in the winter?
Some of my garlic is now easily two feet tall but I am now seeing a bit of browning of some of the lower leaves of the hardneck. I generally will dig up the hardneck a couple of weeks before digging up the Creole and softneck.
