What happens if you plant a store bought onion?
Can you cut it into pieces like a potato?
What happens if you plant a store bought onion?
it might flower if the conditions are right.
On 6/9/2021 5:38 AM, songbird wrote:
What happens if you plant a store bought onion?
it might flower if the conditions are right.
Since the onion contains a LOT of food it will likely flower.
Expect the plant stem to be six feet tall with large round flowers.
They stink. But the bees love them.
it might flower if the conditions are right.
it may not be suitable for your soil or climate
(they usually like pretty good soil).
By any chance would green onions and yellow onions
cross pollinate each other? Should I separate them
away from each other if collecting seeds?
On 6/9/21 3:38 AM, songbird wrote:
it might flower if the conditions are right.
it may not be suitable for your soil or climate
(they usually like pretty good soil).
I want them to flower so I can collect the seeds.
And, judging from my war on weeds, the weeds
like what I have done with the place. I forget
one week to weed my ground pots and, oh my ...
:'(
T wrote:
What happens if you plant a store bought onion?
it might flower if the conditions are right.
it may not be suitable for your soil or climate
(they usually like pretty good soil).
Can you cut it into pieces like a potato?
not quite, you need to make sure there is some of the basal
area where roots come out of (this is common among most bulb
species) whereas potatoes will grow from any point on the
potato that has an eye.
commonly it's just not worth it because the onions often
have so many seeds from flowers that will grow that it's a
waste of something edible to do that.
songbird
if you send me your address in an e-mail i
can send you some garlic to see if it survives there
for you. it survives here anything i do to it and
i can send quite a few small scapes and also some
bigger cloves which will give you bigger bulbs
when they grow.
I'm under the impression that onions generally flower in their 2nd year.
Since I use sets that were grown last year by someone else, they generally will flower, but not all.
Like my garlics, I cut off the flowers to push more energy into the fruit rather than seeds.
That said, I have a lot of success with stored seeds provided I don't hold onto them for a long time and try to keep them cool as in the fridge.
This year, I bought some 'Bunching Onions' for scallions and read that if I leave them in the ground, they will probably winter over and come up on
their own. Anxious to give that a try as I have left onions in over the winter in Zone 4, eastern Maine and they all came up. Oh, and the onions I use as sets are Stuttgart yellow onions. Rather flat then round and hold really well. Still have 5 leftover from last year and they haven't sprouted yet.
The green onions nubs I planted from the supermarket
are certainly thriving. The seeds germinated too
and love my soil. Your seed collecting instructions
worked marvelously.
I plan on the same thing with
the yhe yellow onions. Bet the germinate.
planting
out a store bought onion and expecting it to survive
a winter here isn't likely to work well though in
comparison.
store bought onions may not be hardy enough but
you won't know until you try.:) good luck.
On 6/10/21 4:00 PM, songbird wrote:
store bought onions may not be hardy enough but
you won't know until you try.:) good luck.
They sure do grow perfectly in the filds five miles away!
I think the farmers won't put up with the ...
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