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Post by templeton on Aug 20, 2013 0:27:41 GMT -5
got hold of some Green Mountain potato onion seed last Autumn. about a dozen seedlings emerged, and they have overwintered in both my garden and in a pot. I've just potted them on, resting comfortably in the greenhouse. Unfortunately the ones in the garden don't seem to have a label anymore, and might have got mixed up with my topset onions, and one topset that I'm growing from seed. So I'll need to keep a close eye on developments in that bed. Forgotten my picassa login details so no pic, sorry. No, just found it. does this work?
<https://picasaweb.google.com/tjuringa/August202013?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLzu1uubo9KuGQ&feat=directlink>
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Post by templeton on Aug 20, 2013 0:44:35 GMT -5
no, can't get links to work, ah well, minds eye...
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Post by ilex on Aug 21, 2013 3:33:02 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Aug 21, 2013 14:44:44 GMT -5
Looking good,using your own pot mix too i see.
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Post by templeton on Aug 21, 2013 19:33:17 GMT -5
Looking good,using your own pot mix too i see. half compost, half recycled stuff from some of my greenhouse pots. |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Aug 28, 2013 14:09:32 GMT -5
Nice job. I had a small pot of Green Mountain seedlings this spring. Of about 30 seedlings that emerged, two survived. I have them growing on in the field. One of them appears to be yellow skinned, it has already divided into three or so plants. The other appears to be white skinned and is currently a single bulb. I'm fairly pleased as I am horrible at keeping onion seedlings alive. I'll try and get a picture.
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Post by nicollas on Aug 29, 2013 9:26:55 GMT -5
I managed to kill all but one of my seedlings of Kelly's seeds. It gave me one "big" onion of 5cm/2', not quite as big as kelly's but not bad given that it emerged late and was grown in a pot. I'll see what it will give next year.
I've also two more seedlings the size f ilex ones that was sown latter than the first one.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Aug 29, 2013 16:44:39 GMT -5
Here we go. The three yellow bulbss on the bottom all split off from the same seedling. The white seedling is up above.  The Green Mountain bulbs that went to seed are getting close. It seems Green Mountain is reasonably self fertile after all.  |
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Post by templeton on Aug 29, 2013 18:09:45 GMT -5
I'm pretty excited to see how mine go. Just checked my spring sowing from a week or so ago, and have got another 8 seedlings up so far. The self fertility is good - will be able to spread the joy this side of the pacific. Already had two enquiries from local growers interested in some material - not sure how they found me, re directed by kelly i think.
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Post by richardw on Aug 30, 2013 2:36:21 GMT -5
will be able to spread the joy this side of the pacific. T What about this side of the tassie T, please please  |
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Post by templeton on Aug 30, 2013 17:08:38 GMT -5
Soon as they mature I'll let you know, Richard. Will need to be seeds, I suppose?
I note on Kellys blog he reports a top-setting line in his recent growouts - he hasn't grown them out to maturity yet, but nice to know that the topsetting trait is in there somewhere.
I did get one seedling from my de-bulbing flower heads on topsetters that i did last summer. doesn't look any different to the parents, so far, but it's small.
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Post by nicollas on Oct 6, 2013 10:00:55 GMT -5
Here is the picture of my "big" bulb get from what i've sown at the beginning of the year. I've potted it today. It seems more pinkish than Green mountain. Can't wait to see what will happen !  (scale might not be relevant for a lot of people, its about 2' wide) |
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Post by raymondo on Oct 6, 2013 17:15:33 GMT -5
My potato onion seedlings are stubbornly refusing to do anything. They're in a large pot with plenty of room. I might try transplanting them into the garden somewhere to see if the'll start growing.
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Post by templeton on Oct 8, 2013 17:29:45 GMT -5
My potato onion seedlings are stubbornly refusing to do anything. They're in a large pot with plenty of room. I might try transplanting them into the garden somewhere to see if the'll start growing. Ray, my September sown little seedlings have responded to potting on, and the increasing warmth in the greenhouse seems to have kicked them into gear. The autumn sown ones are doing well in the garden - just noticed the first 'division' in the biggest one - about the size of a bunching onion. The bulbils you sent me of the flowering topsets are shooting now too. The one seedling topset from my de-bulbing exercise last summer seems to be just like all the other topsets. Ah well, I'll wait and see. T |
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