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Puckdropper · 02-03-2008, 09:54 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

wrote in
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An onion is classed as a biennial which means it normally takes 2
years to go from seed to seed.
Having sprouted, your onions will be starting their second year and
will want to flower.
They will probably produce an enlarged bulb but, it will have a flower
stock up through the center plus it will be much less dense than a
first year plant. Because of this it will have a very short storage
life.
Better to try again from (fresh) seed.
One other option is to plant your sprouted onions, let them flower and
go to seed, then harvest the seed.

Ross.

How are they going to be on things like insect repellant and appearance?
I could conceivably build a box and put them out by the swimming pool.

Our soil around here is heavy clay, so I'd have to plant them in a box
anyway to get a sand-based soil, as Omelet suggested.

Puckdropper
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