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Post by Al on Mar 20, 2015 10:04:48 GMT -5
This is the closest I have ever seen to the evergreen bunching salad onion I have grown for years & tentatively i.d. as perutile onion. Mine flowers very very rarely. See avatar picture.
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Post by Stump on Mar 20, 2015 10:21:19 GMT -5
Maybe it's a smaller form? The onions that I recently purchased as Perutile are larger with red stem bases
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Post by templeton on Mar 21, 2015 19:07:13 GMT -5
Looks like what I'm growing and calling A.cepa perutile
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Post by robertb on Mar 24, 2015 5:10:21 GMT -5
It does look like perutile. Could be another variety, of course.
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Post by Stump on Oct 19, 2015 6:00:16 GMT -5
Unknown OnionThese onions have now flowered, and have different flowers to my perutile. They have much smaller flowers, and appear to be topset? Any ideas? Perutile flower
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Post by Al on Oct 19, 2015 12:53:07 GMT -5
Do you mean you are getting top-set bulbs? My Red Welsh Onions which I've grown from seed, look a lot like this mystery multiplier, they have flowered enthusiastically this summer. There seems to be a bit of variation in these Welsh Onions, this may be due to cultural variations? One plant developed a couple of shallot sized bulbs, another divided into a mass of small salad onion sized plants. Flower scapes were mostly extremely long & seem to be setting nice seed capsules, but no top-set bulbs or plantlets.
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Post by Stump on Oct 19, 2015 13:51:55 GMT -5
I think they might be forming bulblets. There is a link to the pic. My Welsh onions have flowers the size of cricket balls on them. Have started to collect seed from them. We have had an unusually hot spring. More like summer. Even the green mountain onions that I grew from seed in autumn are flowering
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Post by Stump on Nov 3, 2015 3:10:24 GMT -5
I think that I have now solved this mystery. It has purple flowers now, and they look to be Onion Chives. The flowers on my perutile are producing the odd seed on some flowers, so have collected about a dozen so far.
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Post by templeton on Nov 3, 2015 4:38:52 GMT -5
some of my green mountains are flowering as well. most of the autumn planted selections are not, but some other lines from bulbs one season long left to overwinter in storage then planted in early spring are sending up flower stalks. might just be a variety thing , since there is a lot of variety in the phenotypes.
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Post by Stump on Nov 3, 2015 14:12:00 GMT -5
some of my green mountains are flowering as well. most of the autumn planted selections are not, but some other lines from bulbs one season long left to overwinter in storage then planted in early spring are sending up flower stalks. might just be a variety thing , since there is a lot of variety in the phenotypes. T Yeah I only have 20 mature green mountains, (thanks) and 3 of them have sent up stalks from my Autumn plantings. I planted the rest of the seed out in September, and have around 100 seedlings that are almost ready to plant out in beds |
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Post by templeton on Nov 3, 2015 17:01:17 GMT -5
I've got so many GrnMtn seedlings in plugs I've left them to die. Ran out of space. If they form little bulbs, I'll transplant them next autumn. Yesterday I planted out the dry bulbs left over from last summer - most had sprouted, but a couple of white ones were firm and solid. Great storage onions. I had a bit of trouble getting similar ones to regrow after planting this spring - sat in the ground, and some rotted. was hoping for a bulb increase, but not going to happen. One survivor of my selection, and it is vigorously flowering rather than bulbing. I'm thinking of letting some mass cross with Holly's red Mill Creek onions, some of which are flowering in their first year but otherwise doing very nicely. Would be nice to get some red into the mix I've got. I'm not really familiar with potato onion culture, so not really sure what to select for.
I should make another thread.
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