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Post by richardw on Dec 5, 2013 3:37:25 GMT -5
Did you get it to grow T??
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Post by templeton on Dec 5, 2013 5:57:21 GMT -5
Did you get it to grow T?? yep. one robust plant. photo soon. t |
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 5, 2013 11:21:33 GMT -5
Wow! Now those are some BEAUTIFUL onions!
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Post by richardw on Dec 5, 2013 11:49:20 GMT -5
Did you get it to grow T?? yep. one robust plant. photo soon. t Oh good stuff. Will be interesting to see if i can get seed from this strain which appears to be different to yours. By using the netting this year to hold the stems/bulbils upright it allows me to be able to keep them growing for much longer,in past years they all ended up laying on the ground,the weeds end up taking off which i can pull out with out knocking off the bulbils,so i would harvested them early to avoid this. |
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Post by richardw on Dec 5, 2013 11:50:30 GMT -5
Wow! Now those are some BEAUTIFUL onions! Thanks Holly,yep they've done well so far,put it down to record warm spring |
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Post by templeton on Dec 10, 2013 16:46:42 GMT -5
Richard, my one seedling topset onion. I went out to my other garden yesterday, and the topsets there are huge! So maybe I've just been too tough on mine in the past, that's why they've been small. There's prolific flowering at garden no 2 as well, but I didn't get to them in time to de-bulbil them, and the flowers have shrivelled. This pic shows the seedling topset - the fat one - with some of Mr winterton's Green Mountain F1 seedling spud onions alongside. The topset has set bulbils, too so I 'll try and get round to planting them.  |
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Post by richardw on Dec 10, 2013 23:42:10 GMT -5
It's done amazingly well T,be interesting to see what the new bulbils do.
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Post by zeedman on Dec 10, 2013 23:53:43 GMT -5
Templeton, that is an impressive stalk... looks like some of the larger bunching onions. It will be interesting to see if the plant divides at the base, and whether the stalks of your seedling will be larger than the parent as clumps form.
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Post by templeton on Dec 12, 2013 19:28:32 GMT -5
Templeton, that is an impressive stalk... looks like some of the larger bunching onions. It will be interesting to see if the plant divides at the base, and whether the stalks of your seedling will be larger than the parent as clumps form. Z, The last couple of days indicate that it is going to divide. It is already much thicker than most of my parent plants growing in this garden, although it's not in the same bed, so conditions aren't identical. Keep you posted. T |
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Post by steev on Dec 12, 2013 22:43:53 GMT -5
Assuming you refer to the plant by your hand, that looks big as a leek! Wow!
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Post by templeton on Dec 13, 2013 0:11:49 GMT -5
Assuming you refer to the plant by your hand, that looks big as a leek! Wow! Yep, pretty impressive. Might be something in this sexual reproduction thing. I must investigate... T |
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Post by steev on Dec 13, 2013 2:22:49 GMT -5
Can't say sexual reproduction ever made anything of mine grow larger, other than temporarily.
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Post by richardw on Jan 4, 2014 0:02:29 GMT -5
ive carried out a fair amount of bulbil removal on some of my Walking onions,but some clumps haven't produced any flowers at all,so its the ones with the most flowers that have removed all the bulbils.The good news is now that some of the flowers are opening they appear to compete with the male stamens so ive been going about hand pollinating.   |
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Post by templeton on Jan 4, 2014 2:53:48 GMT -5
I've de-bulbiled a few plants as well.
Richard, who do you sell your bulbils to?
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Post by richardw on Jan 4, 2014 4:01:11 GMT -5
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