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Post by richardw on Nov 6, 2016 12:07:30 GMT -5
Reed, all that will happen is that the bulbs will send up as many flower stalks as there are "eyes". I've never had less than 3 nor more than 5. A Makó trio thus year was 5-5-4. Didn't keep track of the Amish bottle onions but they are usually 5. I did see somewhat of an exception this year but it was a whole new game. That was a second-year hybrid shallot which sent up a single stalk. Would not have mattered if it had sent up 10 stalks as there were no seeds produced. Martin Not always will a onion send up flower stalks. I grow seed from two onions -Pukekohe Long Keeper and Medbury Red, PLK will in its second year divide into anywhere from three to six and produce a flower stalk from each,Medbury Red on the other hand will still divide but wont produce a flower stalk on all of them, instead these go on a grow another onion of similar size to the parent, quite a handy trait really.
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Post by richardw on Nov 6, 2016 1:45:22 GMT -5
Welcome Tyler, great having so much knowage now within this TGS thread. A look at my dedicated TGS bed, apart from a small rust attack about a month ago i'm quite pleased how they are doing.
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Post by richardw on Nov 5, 2016 12:37:23 GMT -5
yet i've only ever grown onions from seed in the spring.
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Post by richardw on Nov 3, 2016 12:52:25 GMT -5
You could try rolling your beds; works for stones. Something along these lines ya reckon?
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Post by richardw on Nov 1, 2016 12:47:44 GMT -5
Well done, how long should that cedar last for ya reckon?
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Post by richardw on Oct 30, 2016 23:18:12 GMT -5
Looks yummy
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Post by richardw on Oct 29, 2016 23:45:25 GMT -5
Have to let us know what you think.
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Post by richardw on Oct 29, 2016 23:16:01 GMT -5
Today while pulling out wheat plants that were sown after last summers corn, found a few missed cobs that have germinated, i'm amazed that the seed could survive the winter laying on the ground as well not been eaten by mice.
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Post by richardw on Oct 25, 2016 12:25:53 GMT -5
I also have walking onions that I always took the hands off method just letting them do what they want and eating mostly the leaves. I tried actual cultivation with them this year and got unexpected results. They bloomed quite a bit but got no seeds but more interesting, and a little alarming is they made very few bulbils, some made mostly flowers and some made neither one. Left alone in crowded patches they always made lots. The bulbs were not much if any bigger by being spaced out and weeded so I'm going back to mostly letting them take care of them selves. Its so interesting how there are so many different variations in type out there, the fact that you've had some that produced mostly flowers, where for my strain to get flowers was a major mission. For me to have got seed is comparable to getting TGS from a soft neck garlic.
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Post by richardw on Oct 22, 2016 23:59:26 GMT -5
The fruit set has been amazing, i'll have to thin out down to three or four pears and support it with a stake otherwise the poor wee seedling would be flattened. Plans are to get seed from this fruit and see if this extremely early flowering and show again.
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Post by richardw on Oct 22, 2016 23:43:48 GMT -5
Wow what a difference!!,was that ivy had to kill?
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Post by richardw on Oct 22, 2016 23:33:38 GMT -5
I grew out a packet of onion seed a couple years ago that someone sent me which was labeled something like: "Egyptian Onion???" I planted the bulbs this year. Some of them didn't produce a flower stalk and looked more like shallots. Some of of them flowered and looked like regular onions. Some of them flowered and had bulbils on them. Thats interesting, sounds like that someone must has done pretty much the same thing, whither they intended to or not though.A selection trait that I started paying attention to this year, is whether the flower stalk exits the center of the bulb, or around the outside of it. I've started selecting for flower stems outside the bulb. That lets me harvest the onion for food, even after it has flowered. Thats been my selection process over the last 20 years with my walking onion line, i'm now getting 95% of the flowers stalks on the outsides of the bulbs
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Post by richardw on Oct 22, 2016 23:23:25 GMT -5
Interesting see if the WO types really go entirely to blossom or if they have heads that make some bulbils too. Yes good idea.
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Post by richardw on Oct 22, 2016 18:02:15 GMT -5
At the end of the day i really dont want to head down the Welsh onion type but to the top set, so, i really should pull the WO types. I thought selecting towards an onion that grew topset bulbils as well as producing flower/seed on its second tire. This year templeton i'm fortunate this summer not to end up with your problem, ive got no other onions due to flower, next year i will though, and the Green Mountain potato onion seed i give to copse to do.
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Post by richardw on Oct 22, 2016 15:40:24 GMT -5
Yes i'm leaning towards leaving them all together and keep mixing them up as i dont really have a longer term goal, more 'see what happens'
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