This is my first year growing onions. I'm growing Copra storage onions.
Planted the onion sets a week ago. I noticed the tops are bending over
and trying to bury themselves in the ground. Some of the tops buried
themselves so deep that it uprooted the actual onion bulb. Each day now
I check for buried tops and gently pull them back out so they are above
the ground. Is this a normal thing that onions do?

Rich

Just bringing this post back up hoping for an answer to this onion
problem

Rich

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(EVP MAN) wrote:

Just bringing this post back up hoping for an answer to this onion
problem

Rich

No.
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On 4/29/2010 8:42 AM, EVP MAN wrote:

Just bringing this post back up hoping for an answer to this onion
problem

Rich




Is there any chance they got sprayed with 2,4-d weed killer?

Bob

zxcvbob wrote:
On 4/29/2010 8:42 AM, EVP MAN wrote:

Just bringing this post back up hoping for an answer to this onion
problem

Rich




Is there any chance they got sprayed with 2,4-d weed killer?

Bob


Whether that's right or not, Bob, you deserve a hat tip. Never thought
of that, but it does sound like it could, indeed, have been 2,4-d poisoning.

Tony

Nope, no weed killer at all. I got the onion sets one day and planted
them the next. They were planted in the same place that I grew tomatoes
last season. This is really strange and sure has me puzzled about the
onions.

Rich

EVP MAN wrote:
Nope, no weed killer at all. I got the onion sets one day and planted
them the next. They were planted in the same place that I grew tomatoes
last season. This is really strange and sure has me puzzled about the
onions.

Rich



You didn't plant them upside-down did you? ;-)

Bob

Put the bulb in the ground with the green part up! LOL