Re: Onion sets or plants
[Re: Bigfoot]
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04/25/19 09:33 AM
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always used sets and have tried plants once or twice without much luck.sets were tough to find here this year but i finally got all i wanted put in.
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Re: Onion sets or plants
[Re: Bigfoot]
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04/25/19 10:50 AM
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Oddly, my best onions always came from seed. Sets and plants never seemed to do as well.
"The voice of reason!"
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Re: Onion sets or plants
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04/25/19 11:04 AM
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Plants do better, and don't go to seed on you like sets will, and they get bigger onions, IMO. I have planted seed to get plants and then just put them in a row. I works fine. The best way is to use a pinch of seed, in each of an 18 cell deep flat filler, ;and let them come like chives...plant like that with 1/2" of soil over the seed. When they get healthy looking, just plant out the biggest ones in a row. I have sold thousands like this in flats, and it is not a money maker.
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Re: Onion sets or plants
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04/25/19 03:04 PM
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i thought sets and plants were the same thing... the others are bulbs and seeds
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Re: Onion sets or plants
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04/25/19 03:41 PM
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looked it up sets are bulbs.... never too old to learn...
The only place you find free cheese is in a mousetrap !
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Re: Onion sets or plants
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04/25/19 06:21 PM
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I always called them sets and slips. I guess slips are what you are calling onion plants. We always plant slips/plants and have great luck producing hundreds of pounds of onions a year.
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Re: Onion sets or plants
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04/25/19 07:39 PM
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Sets for green onions, plants for big onions. same here.
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Re: Onion sets or plants
[Re: MikeC]
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04/26/19 09:05 AM
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I grew some Alisa Craig for the first time last year. Ate the last one this week. They keep well but was disappointed in the size compared to the Candy onion. I sell all the 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pound onion2 I can raise. They just don't seem to get there as well as Candy onions. Mike One thing I haven't had much luck with Ailsas is keeping them- although that may be for other reasons. Where do yogurt your seed/ stock for the Candy Onions?
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