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I was under the impression that only green onions can be harvested from it. Now I know that one needs to spread them and replant them. This is new and useful information that I have learned today. Thanks so much.
I grew up in the country, with my granddad having a large garden. I have been wanting to start my own small garden, but there are so many different ways on TH-cam to plant. I’m not quite sure which way go! recommendations on a for easy gardening, please share! ❤
Thank you for your 150-days experiment and your detailed results. Many presenters lack all the footage details of their work. You have everything....even the possible errors that can be made and how to avoid or mitigate them. Excellent indeed! You taught me something so I will go look for onions to start my journey to never having to buy onions again.
I agree with what you said. He really took the time to demonstrate the right and wrong way of growing onions. I really appreciated this video as onions are so darn expensive. Well done. He has got me hooked.
This was an excellent video. You planned it out for nearly 6 months! You showed the growth over time, what to do and not to do, and showed the difference between dividing and not dividing, and how they grow in different environments. Thank you so much for your thorough information!
@@margareteyo9878 I think you can transplant it to a garden. I am currently trying it out now and it works. I live in grow zone 3, so we have lots of snow snd temp can reach -40C here. I first tried his bottled meter. I tried to stop the onions from sinking, and they did. But they are rotted out. So O started a new batch. But because I wanted to start all of them alike, everything I cut the bottoms during cooking, I saved them in a zip lock bag and put tiny water in the bag, just to prevent dehydration. I kept the bag by the door of the fridge. This went on for about 3 weeks to 1 month. When I checked them before planting them out, they were already showing bumps and bulges. I transplanted them into a pitting mix in a bowl together, and they are sputing green leaves now. Very few are rotting and moldy, but majority are sprouting. I am doing all this inside the house. I am not using any special heat and my house is not the warmest in winter. I just put them close to a bright window for sunlight during the day. That it. We have a short growing season, so starting now for me is good. I will follow it and probably post the update. Thank you for the video. Very helpful.
Estheir(81yrs) Kullu. Thank you very much for sharing your practicle experience...very simple and helpful. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ,my Brother.
I bless you? who the fk are you God? If you're going to be a religious nut at least say it right...Jesus bless you...God bless you.. But you don't have anything you're not god.
Every once in a while I find an amazing video on the internet. Today is one of those days. I have been gardening for several years and never knew I could grow onions this way. THANK YOU!
Son, this is amazing. I just pitched a bunch of onion 🧅 bulb that I kept in my refrigerator. I should have just started them like this. I probably have 200-300 onions growing in my little greenhouse. I'm going to propagate them trying your way.
I really like how you include footage and explanations about what happens if you do it the "wrong" way. Like with the water bottle and separation of bulbs.
What is interesting is that "Size Matters" and some of us have only one or two mouths to feed. That means that more often than not a large onion has to be halved and sometimes even quartered for a meal then the the rest wrapped in something hopefully protective and placed in the refrigerator where it sits "Until Needed". This gives what appears to be an abundant supply of fresh onions that wait in the garden where they should be until you actually need them. If you space your plantings out so there's always new ones coming into their peak of freshness as you use up the old(er) ones that are are fading, this method should workout just fine.
I just bought two 25 lb bags of onions for a $7 each. That's not the normal price. I was just lucky when I found them. Thank you for the video. I will give this a try.
I do this with green onion and chop the green part 4-5 times after they grow again and again and plant it in the garden if weather is good to that 😊I would try it with regular onion this summer 😏
A good tip for when the onion is growing is : keep firming the soil around the onion . This appears to make the onions larger and firmer . Great video : )
Been doing this for years with all varieties of onion leeks etc. Works really well. And the thing I would add to this is instead of digging up the onion then replanting the root vase, I use a very sharp knife to carefully cut the onion out leaving the base in place for it to grow the next batch. It doesn't always work but I'd say 8 out of 10 times it's successful. And most of the time you get twice the amount too. Definitely worth following the instructions in this video. I've even tried doing this growing the onions in nothing but water with just the roots sat in the water and the growing onion raised above it. I've managed to grow some onions doing this, but quite small. I just need to adjust any additives or feed I use until I get it right. This should result in bigger onions once I get it right. This video also works for garlic.
@Dr. OBi's Garden I would love to be able to set up a camera that takes footage over the whole growing time and upload it to show it works. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody already has, but I've not come across any yet. I think the easiest one to do are spring onions, which grow a lot quicker and after 3 weeks with the roots dangling in a glass of water they will get a good 3 or 4 inches of growth, that's without even planting them yet! Hydroponics seems like a good way to grow onions, I've seen a lot of TV shows where they have vast water farms with things like onions lettuces etc planted through a floating 'oasis' type material with onky the roots sat in the water, with fish living in the water to both clean the water and add nutrition back in to it, a bit like why they add fish species in to rice paddy fields for similar reasons. Like I said, I've managed to grow a few smaller onions in nothing but water. There's lots of different ways to grow things, and it's only by experimenting that you find these ways. I only discovered this way shown in the video to regrow onions because after I threw some onion bottoms away in to my compost heap, after a few days the ones on top had grown really long roots where it was sat in the damp (it had been raining a lot) and the shoots had grown out of the cut end, so I retrieved them and replanted them and it worked. I told my dad a few years later about this and found he had done it a lot himself over the years. Definitely worth trying. You can do this very same thing with pineapple crowns (the top bit) once cut off but it takes around 2 years or so to bare fruit. I've managed to get the initial plants growing for about a year but then we had a big storm one night that knocked roof tiles on to my greenhouse and ruined them! So I haven't tried again yet. I'd love to try it again. A lot of my garden isn't grown from bought seeds, I like starting my growings from shop/store bought items. My initial tomato plants are from various varieties of tomatoes I bought for salads cooking etc. Some I even grew from seeds I took from a burger I bought that had a very tasty tomato on it, so I collected the seeds from it and planted them. Now every year I harvest the seeds from my own grown tomatoes from the previous year and I get lots of very tasty tomatoes. I have a melon wall where I grow my melons all from a few store bought melons. My peppers all from peppers bought in Aldi or Asda. Even my lemon trees came from a chunk of lemon that I got on a Greek kebab from a takeaway. It had 3 seeds in it and I managed to get 2 to grow. My strawberry plants all come from punnets I've bought. The only seeds I buy are ones I really want or that are hard to get here, such as thornless raspberries and blackberries because I don't want my grandkids hurting themselves when picking them. Grafting is something else I'm getting in to. I have an apple tree that last year i grafted two new apple varieties and a pear variety to, which all seem to have taken because they have growth but won't know about any fruit until later in the year, and this year I'm going to be grafting a few varieties of plums, peaches, apricots and cherries on to my Victoria plum tree, the one I really want to grow are green gages. Hopefully they will take well. 1 tree growing many fruits still blows my mind, and takes up no more space than the one original tree.
@@chiomaumunna4832 I just use a mixture of home compost, well rotted horse manure, fish bone and standard tomato feed plus rain water from a water butt collected from my greenhouse roof, I place the compost fish bone tomato feed mixture in to the water butt, let it sit for a few months then use it to water my garden plot and my greenhouse contents. I do this about once a month and just leave it to the rain, or at dry times, just a going over with the water from the hosepipe, and that seems to be enough. I'm going to try adding drops if this mixture to the onions I grow just in a water bath. You just need to make sure only the roots ar submerged and not the onion. Itself. A good thing to use is the oasis stuff the florists use for flower arranging ir a piece of packaging polystyrene. You need to get the roots growing by placing the onion cutting in a shallow tray if water for a week or so, then when the roots are a few inches long, make a hole in the oasis ir polystyrene and gently pull the roots through the hole, and sit on top of a container of water, add a few drops of the feed from the water butt and let nature do its thing. I just leave mine in the green house but you could place some perspex or glas or something to cover it and leave it in the garden if you wanted. Normal varieties of onions and leeks etc will take the same amount if time to grow, but spring onions/scallions seem to grow very quick using these methods. Whether growing in the garden or in water, the trick is to not pull up the onions, but to cut them away from where they are planted, leaving the rooted base behind to grow again and again. Perpetual onions.
Fantastic tutorial! I understood that this could not be done, and would give up after sprouting the green tops as I am already growing long green onions & scallion. Not only did I smash that like button, the video is saved & shared. Thank you.
Honestly! This is amazing! My father will be so proud of me to pull off this onion planting project Successfully. I hope to come back to relate my success. Thanks so much
This is common knowledge. Isn’t it great - free food! Great to see a video of the process to inspire others. You can also do this with spring onions too - put straight into the earth and watch it grow.
Very interesting. I also do this but didn't know how and when to harvest, so I left them to go to seed! Now I'm sharing the seed with other vegetable gardeners
This is amazing! Wish I had found this channel earlier! Great efforts! You are very generous to share your precious knowledge and experience! Thank you Dr. Obi 🙏
You teach well and show plenty of detail. It is motivating for new growers and anyone who doesn't know how to do these things. Important type of video to watch these days and be prepared and capable independently.
Thank you so much...this video comes just in time as I'm wanting to start my own veggie and herb gardening and need a few lessons. Your teaching method is simple and you explain well so I'm ever so grateful. God bless you!
Great info! Smaller onion take the cap off and invert into bottle. You can adjust the water level in the bottle for the onion size to just sit on the water. Win win another onion to sprout.
A generous Doctor. Nature needs good people and TH-cam to share its secrets. Unestimated in value to reduce famine. etc etc I think it'd work for garlic and other species in the family. Thanks again I'm a subscriber
So i just moved to a house woth a backyard and plan to start backyard farming. Imagine my relief when i came accross your channel. You gained a subscriber
This was so helpful . I watched another opinion video where they never separated the bulbs. Instead they chopped up the leaves and used them for seasoning. I was so confused!
Glad it was helpful! Separating the bulbs ensure that they can grow bigger. You can cut the leaves for use as green onions but the bulb will take longer to form.
i'm not sure why youtube suggested this video to me but i'm glad they did! you make onion-growing look easy enough... and it's not going to cost me anything to try. thanks so much for the inspiration!
I really appreciate the time and thought processes that you invested in this life experiment. I love onions, so this will really assist me in my preparedness. We use the tops to add additional color and flavor to our meals and also dehydrate a fair amount of our vegetables. Thanks and Happy New Year to you and your followers. I am now one of your fans! 🇺🇸⚔🇬🇪
Hey I am trying this with an onion practically straight from the fridge. I was a bit skeptical when I saw you scraping the root base but by golly it works. I am using a small shot glass as the mouth is small enough for the onion to rest comfortably without falling in and I am getting baby roots sprouting after only one night! Thank you so much for this video. Can't wait for shoots to sprout. I am using a regular yellow type onion. But we have some red-skinned ones in the fridge, I'm going to try those too.
I think you can transplant it directly to a garden. I am currently trying it out now and it works. I live in grow zone 3, so we have lots of snow snd temp can reach -40C here. I first tried his bottled method. I tried to stop the onions from sinking, and they did. But they are rotted out. So I started a new batch. But because I wanted to start all of them alike, everytime I cut the bottoms during cooking, I saved them in a zip lock bag and put tiny water in the bag, just to prevent dehydration. I kept the bag by the door of the fridge. This went on for about 3 weeks to 1 month. When I checked them before planting them out, they were already showing bumps and bulges. I transplanted them into a pitting mix in a bowl together, and they are sprouting green leaves now. Very few are rotten and mouldy, but majority are sprouting. I am doing all this inside the house. I am not using any special heat and my house is not the warmest in winter. I just put them close to a bright window for sunlight during the day. That it. We have a short growing season, so starting now for me is good. I will follow it and probably post the update. Thank you for the video. Very helpful. I used the yellow onions too.
Waaauuu this is good and easy, u dont even have to go and buy onion seedlings. Thank you very much for this video, we need more if these. God bless you. Zambia
This is very interesting. You have really tried, you exercised patience, the teaching is well detailed, understood and practicable. I eat onion so much, you have shown me how to achieve my long time desire. I have tried to plant it but could not get it. God bless you. Well done.
This is very much helpful! From start to finish(harvesting bulb), thanks for your patience and sharing it with us. Onion is very pricey nowadays in our country 🇵🇭. It could be a special price for game contests and gift for those who loves to cook. 😅
Thanks so much for taking us through the whole process! I'm going to give it a try. Now that I've grown my own onions, I can never go back to the store-bought ones!
@@kurtmagnus5243 If first you don't succeed try, try again. I redesigned my Permaculture garden and rebuilt it with hugelkultur beds expecting the same thriving garden but that didn't happen at least not yet. That was in 2019 and I am still developing the garden. In the original 10 year old garden if I threw down seed or planted it grew. Not anymore. The first year I tried sweet potato slips they all failed. The last two years I've had slips but all I get is roots no potatoes. Gardening is the easiest when watching gardening videos.
I have some onion ends sitting in the plastic container from store bought mushrooms for a few weeks waiting for me to get around to putting them in water. It is cold here in the 40's during the day and the room where they are kept is only heated to 45 degrees unless I am working in the room. I have done this before. Saved ends and didn't get to it right away and they usually shrivel dry up but that was during warm weather.. But not all of them this time so maybe it's the cooler temps. I noticed today out of 12 ends 6 are dried up, the other 6 have sprouted. The ones on top of the others not against the plastic have sprouted. Just placing the onion in soil may work.
Excellent video. I liked how you maximised the space and love the way you started the growth using plastic bottles. Excellent tutorial and appreciate the time you have spent in making it.
I think you can transplant it directly to a garden. I am currently trying it out now and it works. I live in grow zone 3, so we have lots of snow snd temp can reach -40C here. I first tried his bottled method. I tried to stop the onions from sinking, and they did. But they are rotted out. So I started a new batch. But because I wanted to start all of them alike, everytime I cut the bottoms during cooking, I saved them in a zip lock bag and put tiny water in the bag, just to prevent dehydration. I kept the bag by the door of the fridge. This went on for about 3 weeks to 1 month. When I checked them before planting them out, they were already showing bumps and bulges. I transplanted them into a pitting mix in a bowl together, and they are sprouting green leaves now. Very few are rotten and mouldy, but majority are sprouting. I am doing all this inside the house. I am not using any special heat and my house is not the warmest in winter. I just put them close to a bright window for sunlight during the day. That it. We have a short growing season, so starting now for me is good. I will follow it and probably post the update. Thank you for the video. Very helpful.
Thank you for this video. It is well done. Instructions are clear and the video shows EXACTLY what to do and how the plant looks at each step. I have planted onion bottoms before but this method yields many more new onions. My timing is perfect. I have onions and it is springtime here right now. Since I am planning to make a stew tonight, I'll have onion bottoms ready to plant tomorrow. Thanks again. This is one of the clearest gardening videos I have seen yet. Excellent job!
Thanks for the kind compliment. If you've not already started, I'll recommend you watch our newest video before you start. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/z4JG1SGcrSQ/w-d-xo.html
@@dr_obisgarden I will indeed, and I have already seen several listed on your channel that interest me. We need this kind of advice, especially these days. Thanks again for all your effort in producing these videos.
Oh i love this. Since my country tries to fool us all with these planned fairytale prices i decided to start growing some food myself ❤ also potatoes seem to work similar as onions. Ive heard people writing that they use just bad potatoes they have at home and harvest a lot of potatoes from them.
So long as the potato isn't rotting, it will produce more tubers for you. Even when prices aren't skyrocketing to the point that home-grown potatoes are actually viable, growing at home is a good way to get fingerlings.
If you want to use potatoes from the store for seed potatoes, especially in the spring, buy organic potatoes. Many growers of potatoes spray them with a sprout inhibitor, in the spring, to stop people from being able to grow their own...sometimes, even a potato peeling will grow, if it is thick enough, and it has an 'eye' on it.
That is assuming that you won't eat any of the onions and that defeats the purpose of this video. If you're considering anything close or more than an acre, then you're veering into commercial production in which case the technique shown in this video may not be appropriate. For commercial production, it's best and faster to use seeds, sets or purchase seedlings. Happy gardening.
Just watched ur vid & placed 2 half bulbs in water. Now I wait & watch. Ty much. I've been thinking about planting onions & ur vid was so easy it was all the encouragement I needed. So again, ty.
Thanks for watching. Turn on closed captions. Watch this video before you try to grow onions from bulbs th-cam.com/video/z4JG1SGcrSQ/w-d-xo.html. Additional tips for growing more onions from onions can be found here th-cam.com/video/FMocxweZnXQ/w-d-xo.html . Feel free to leave a comment or question and I'll get back. Please like and share so more people will benefit from it. Kindly subscribe if you're new to this channel and turn on notifications so you get notified of new video/ posts. If you can, kindly join our Patreon to support our work here:
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@@davestevenson9080 Thank you for sharing. I am looking forward to having a go. Blessings
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@@MrTwige I'll just assume you don't know what you're talking about. Have a nice day.
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FINALLY!!!!! A clear and simple video that actually produces real onions. I love it! Thank you sir.
Glad you love it. You are very welcome.
I was under the impression that only green onions can be harvested from it. Now I know that one needs to spread them and replant them. This is new and useful information that I have learned today. Thanks so much.
I subscribed to you @trouble ent
I had the same impression. Just learnt something new.
I see it thats is why my union doesnt grew bigger it because it is buried deep
Me too ... at first i thought the green ones is the only thing that i can harvest
I will try for sure...tq for ur information
I know a lot about growing. I’m a country girl, and I’ve studied plants many hours. This video taught me more and is very well presented.
take a ekstra look, to me they look like mutiplyers\potatoonions\shallots
And hard as rocks.@@janericvelure6883
Take a rest buddy go and study about basal plate of bulb 😂 LoL
This is a great idea, for using onion roots for regrowing again and again. Researchers must work on this idea for potato
I grew up in the country, with my granddad having a large garden. I have been wanting to start my own small garden, but there are so many different ways on TH-cam to plant. I’m not quite sure which way go! recommendations on a for easy gardening, please share! ❤
Thanks for showing how to actually get the real onion and not just chives. Thank you so much. Really appreciate.
My pleasure 😊. Glad that you find it useful.
You welcome much love
I love the way he left the last bottle for the hard headed people that don't listen 😂
Just trying to cater for everyone 😂
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Thank you for your 150-days experiment and your detailed results. Many presenters lack all the footage details of their work. You have everything....even the possible errors that can be made and how to avoid or mitigate them. Excellent indeed! You taught me something so I will go look for onions to start my journey to never having to buy onions again.
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It is so useful video good mathad thanks
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If you can get this many onions from 1, it's gonna be a bountiful harvest if I grow more. Thanks for sharing.
You bet
You are very smart man Obi,I will try this for onion to add to soup. May your harvests be great my friend.
So nice of you. Thank you very much.
I tried this method and it does work. 5/21/23. Thank you.
Great to know that it worked for you. You're welcome.
I WILL try this method how to for I can plant Bombay Onions
Me too I will tried this method
There's so much joy I'm feeling from watching this
One of the best videos for using scraps to regrow vegetables that I have ever seen, and I've watched a lot. You were so thorough! Great job!
Thanks for the compliments.
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I agree with what you said. He really took the time to demonstrate the right and wrong way of growing onions. I really appreciated this video as onions are so darn expensive. Well done. He has got me hooked.
This was an excellent video. You planned it out for nearly 6 months! You showed the growth over time, what to do and not to do, and showed the difference between dividing and not dividing, and how they grow in different environments. Thank you so much for your thorough information!
It's always a pleasure to share. Thanks for your support.
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You did not indicate the conditions necessary for germination, must it be planted in a container or can also be planted on lawn please help out thanks
@@margareteyo9878 I think you can transplant it to a garden. I am currently trying it out now and it works. I live in grow zone 3, so we have lots of snow snd temp can reach -40C here. I first tried his bottled meter. I tried to stop the onions from sinking, and they did. But they are rotted out. So O started a new batch. But because I wanted to start all of them alike, everything I cut the bottoms during cooking, I saved them in a zip lock bag and put tiny water in the bag, just to prevent dehydration. I kept the bag by the door of the fridge. This went on for about 3 weeks to 1 month. When I checked them before planting them out, they were already showing bumps and bulges. I transplanted them into a pitting mix in a bowl together, and they are sputing green leaves now. Very few are rotting and moldy, but majority are sprouting. I am doing all this inside the house. I am not using any special heat and my house is not the warmest in winter. I just put them close to a bright window for sunlight during the day. That it. We have a short growing season, so starting now for me is good. I will follow it and probably post the update. Thank you for the video. Very helpful.
@@onlinethings9238 please share the update as it goes
this is the most detailed video you can find in youtube on how to plant onions. Great video deserves more views.
I plant green onions in front yard - back yard .
Spring time beautiful flowers- seeds- grove green onions all over my yard.
Estheir(81yrs) Kullu.
Thank you very much for sharing your practicle experience...very simple and helpful. I bless you in the name of Jesus Christ,my Brother.
I bless you? who the fk are you God? If you're going to be a religious nut at least say it right...Jesus bless you...God bless you..
But you don't have anything you're not god.
If you cut the bottle first, then place it over the onion, you can use it to measure exactly where to cut the onion in half.
Finally counting 21 onions made my day... 😅
Amazing technique to multiply the onions.
Separation of onion bulbs to grow bigger size is an eye opener for many of us... 🙏
Every once in a while I find an amazing video on the internet. Today is one of those days. I have been gardening for several years and never knew I could grow onions this way. THANK YOU!
So nice of you. Best wishes with your garden.
Son, this is amazing. I just pitched a bunch of onion 🧅 bulb that I kept in my refrigerator. I should have just started them like this. I probably have 200-300 onions growing in my little greenhouse. I'm going to propagate them trying your way.
Far more comprehensive than expected. Great job.
Thanks
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I really like how you include footage and explanations about what happens if you do it the "wrong" way. Like with the water bottle and separation of bulbs.
Thanks for sharing this.we need new ways of thinking today.continue discovering more and touching humanity.
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This was amazing! You just completed revolutionized how I will plant onions from now on!
Me too!
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I'm going to start this process today!
So awesome, thanks for the detailed information 🙏
Not the best mic quality. But your charm made that not matter at all! A+ video, this will surely help me in my growing journey. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Working on the mic 😄.
What is interesting is that "Size Matters" and some of us have only one or two mouths to feed. That means that more often than not a large onion has to be halved and sometimes even quartered for a meal then the the rest wrapped in something hopefully protective and placed in the refrigerator where it sits "Until Needed". This gives what appears to be an abundant supply of fresh onions that wait in the garden where they should be until you actually need them. If you space your plantings out so there's always new ones coming into their peak of freshness as you use up the old(er) ones that are are fading, this method should workout just fine.
We eat a lot of onions! Add it nearly in every dish or soup. Not the KFS and/or McDonald/hot dogs or so((((
I just bought two 25 lb bags of onions for a $7 each. That's not the normal price. I was just lucky when I found them. Thank you for the video. I will give this a try.
Very helpful . I didn’t know onions could be grown this way.
I'm glad you found it useful. Happy gardening.
I’ve been planting the wrong end 😂
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I do this with green onion and chop the green part 4-5 times after they grow again and again and plant it in the garden if weather is good to that 😊I would try it with regular onion this summer 😏
Your video is great , and enlightening . I have watched it several times , it's better than most .
Wow, thank you! I'm glad you found it useful ☺️.
A good tip for when the onion is growing is : keep firming the soil around the onion .
This appears to make the onions larger and firmer .
Great video : )
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Thanks for the tip.
Thanks
Been doing this for years with all varieties of onion leeks etc. Works really well. And the thing I would add to this is instead of digging up the onion then replanting the root vase, I use a very sharp knife to carefully cut the onion out leaving the base in place for it to grow the next batch. It doesn't always work but I'd say 8 out of 10 times it's successful. And most of the time you get twice the amount too. Definitely worth following the instructions in this video. I've even tried doing this growing the onions in nothing but water with just the roots sat in the water and the growing onion raised above it. I've managed to grow some onions doing this, but quite small. I just need to adjust any additives or feed I use until I get it right. This should result in bigger onions once I get it right. This video also works for garlic.
Happy to read about your success story. Some people think it's fake. Looking forward to reading more about your experiment and results.
@Dr. OBi's Garden I would love to be able to set up a camera that takes footage over the whole growing time and upload it to show it works. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody already has, but I've not come across any yet. I think the easiest one to do are spring onions, which grow a lot quicker and after 3 weeks with the roots dangling in a glass of water they will get a good 3 or 4 inches of growth, that's without even planting them yet! Hydroponics seems like a good way to grow onions, I've seen a lot of TV shows where they have vast water farms with things like onions lettuces etc planted through a floating 'oasis' type material with onky the roots sat in the water, with fish living in the water to both clean the water and add nutrition back in to it, a bit like why they add fish species in to rice paddy fields for similar reasons. Like I said, I've managed to grow a few smaller onions in nothing but water.
There's lots of different ways to grow things, and it's only by experimenting that you find these ways. I only discovered this way shown in the video to regrow onions because after I threw some onion bottoms away in to my compost heap, after a few days the ones on top had grown really long roots where it was sat in the damp (it had been raining a lot) and the shoots had grown out of the cut end, so I retrieved them and replanted them and it worked. I told my dad a few years later about this and found he had done it a lot himself over the years. Definitely worth trying.
You can do this very same thing with pineapple crowns (the top bit) once cut off but it takes around 2 years or so to bare fruit. I've managed to get the initial plants growing for about a year but then we had a big storm one night that knocked roof tiles on to my greenhouse and ruined them! So I haven't tried again yet. I'd love to try it again. A lot of my garden isn't grown from bought seeds, I like starting my growings from shop/store bought items. My initial tomato plants are from various varieties of tomatoes I bought for salads cooking etc. Some I even grew from seeds I took from a burger I bought that had a very tasty tomato on it, so I collected the seeds from it and planted them. Now every year I harvest the seeds from my own grown tomatoes from the previous year and I get lots of very tasty tomatoes. I have a melon wall where I grow my melons all from a few store bought melons. My peppers all from peppers bought in Aldi or Asda. Even my lemon trees came from a chunk of lemon that I got on a Greek kebab from a takeaway. It had 3 seeds in it and I managed to get 2 to grow. My strawberry plants all come from punnets I've bought. The only seeds I buy are ones I really want or that are hard to get here, such as thornless raspberries and blackberries because I don't want my grandkids hurting themselves when picking them.
Grafting is something else I'm getting in to. I have an apple tree that last year i grafted two new apple varieties and a pear variety to, which all seem to have taken because they have growth but won't know about any fruit until later in the year, and this year I'm going to be grafting a few varieties of plums, peaches, apricots and cherries on to my Victoria plum tree, the one I really want to grow are green gages. Hopefully they will take well. 1 tree growing many fruits still blows my mind, and takes up no more space than the one original tree.
What additives do you use please?
@@chiomaumunna4832 I just use a mixture of home compost, well rotted horse manure, fish bone and standard tomato feed plus rain water from a water butt collected from my greenhouse roof, I place the compost fish bone tomato feed mixture in to the water butt, let it sit for a few months then use it to water my garden plot and my greenhouse contents. I do this about once a month and just leave it to the rain, or at dry times, just a going over with the water from the hosepipe, and that seems to be enough. I'm going to try adding drops if this mixture to the onions I grow just in a water bath. You just need to make sure only the roots ar submerged and not the onion. Itself. A good thing to use is the oasis stuff the florists use for flower arranging ir a piece of packaging polystyrene. You need to get the roots growing by placing the onion cutting in a shallow tray if water for a week or so, then when the roots are a few inches long, make a hole in the oasis ir polystyrene and gently pull the roots through the hole, and sit on top of a container of water, add a few drops of the feed from the water butt and let nature do its thing. I just leave mine in the green house but you could place some perspex or glas or something to cover it and leave it in the garden if you wanted. Normal varieties of onions and leeks etc will take the same amount if time to grow, but spring onions/scallions seem to grow very quick using these methods. Whether growing in the garden or in water, the trick is to not pull up the onions, but to cut them away from where they are planted, leaving the rooted base behind to grow again and again. Perpetual onions.
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Fantastic tutorial! I understood that this could not be done, and would give up after sprouting the green tops as I am already growing long green onions & scallion. Not only did I smash that like button, the video is saved & shared. Thank you.
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Same☝️😊
I never knew that I can grow my own onions and I like them so much. I spend a lot of money on them. Now I can enjoy more. Thanks and God bless you.
Honestly! This is amazing! My father will be so proud of me to pull off this onion planting project Successfully. I hope to come back to relate my success. Thanks so much
You can do it! Looking forward to reading about your success. Best wishes and thanks for stopping by.
This is common knowledge. Isn’t it great - free food! Great to see a video of the process to inspire others.
You can also do this with spring onions too - put straight into the earth and watch it grow.
Very interesting. I also do this but didn't know how and when to harvest, so I left them to go to seed! Now I'm sharing the seed with other vegetable gardeners
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You are an excellent teacher!! You explained things in details and in a simple, easy to understand manner! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Always a pleasure to share. Thanks for the compliment and for your support.
Thanks for sharing that video
Its a great one
True!!
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What a good teacher! Spring just started and I am definitely going to try growing onions again.
Wonderful! Best of luck. Thanks.
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These are the type of videos the world needs. Thank you my good Sir for this video and keep up the great work.
This is amazing! Wish I had found this channel earlier! Great efforts! You are very generous to share your precious knowledge and experience! Thank you Dr. Obi 🙏
Always a pleasure to share. Thank you as well.
You teach well and show plenty of detail. It is motivating for new growers and anyone who doesn't know how to do these things. Important type of video to watch these days and be prepared and capable independently.
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This clarified a lot for me. Thank you for posting!
Glad to know that. Always a pleasure.
Thank you so much...this video comes just in time as I'm wanting to start my own veggie and herb gardening and need a few lessons. Your teaching method is simple and you explain well so I'm ever so grateful. God bless you!
In which month onnion should be grown ?
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Best onion growing video I’ve seen. Very informative.
Great info! Smaller onion take the cap off and invert into bottle. You can adjust the water level in the bottle for the onion size to just sit on the water. Win win another onion to sprout.
Great suggestions.
Very helpful tips for growing onions. Thanks for sharing.
Most welcome
A generous Doctor.
Nature needs good people and TH-cam to share its secrets.
Unestimated in value to reduce famine. etc etc
I think it'd work for garlic and other species in the family.
Thanks again
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Wow! Thank you!! Can this method work with shallots?
It should. 😊
So i just moved to a house woth a backyard and plan to start backyard farming. Imagine my relief when i came accross your channel. You gained a subscriber
Thanks so much for subscribing. Welcome to the family. Have fun 😁.
Now I know why I've never get my onions grow bigger than the spring onions. Thank you for this brilliant tutorial. Will try asap.
This is one of the best explanations of the process I've seen. Thank you for sharing with us. Self sufficiency is more important then ever.
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This was so helpful . I watched another opinion video where they never separated the bulbs. Instead they chopped up the leaves and used them for seasoning. I was so confused!
Glad it was helpful! Separating the bulbs ensure that they can grow bigger. You can cut the leaves for use as green onions but the bulb will take longer to form.
Can’t beat that for genius... thank you kindly
Thanks.
Thank you! Great instructions and demonstration 🎉
You're most welcome. Thanks as well.
i'm not sure why youtube suggested this video to me but i'm glad they did! you make onion-growing look easy enough... and it's not going to cost me anything to try. thanks so much for the inspiration!
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I really appreciate the time and thought processes that you invested in this life experiment. I love onions, so this will really assist me in my preparedness. We use the tops to add additional color and flavor to our meals and also dehydrate a fair amount of our vegetables. Thanks and Happy New Year to you and your followers. I am now one of your fans! 🇺🇸⚔🇬🇪
Thanks for subscribing. Welcome to the family. I'm glad to know you like our videos. Happy gardening.
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Wow, had no idea! I will be using all my onion ends to start other onions.
Salam Dr Obi thanks 🙏 for your time and support for this video. ❤❤❤❤❤
It's my pleasure. Thanks as well.
You, Sir, are a VERY patient gardener. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
You're most welcome 🤗. Thanks for the kind compliments. Gardening really requires a lot of patience.
I learned so much from this video. Thanks a lot.
Glad to hear it!
Hey I am trying this with an onion practically straight from the fridge. I was a bit skeptical when I saw you scraping the root base but by golly it works. I am using a small shot glass as the mouth is small enough for the onion to rest comfortably without falling in and I am getting baby roots sprouting after only one night! Thank you so much for this video. Can't wait for shoots to sprout. I am using a regular yellow type onion. But we have some red-skinned ones in the fridge, I'm going to try those too.
So what is the update on your onions..? Did it work?
I think you can transplant it directly to a garden. I am currently trying it out now and it works. I live in grow zone 3, so we have lots of snow snd temp can reach -40C here. I first tried his bottled method. I tried to stop the onions from sinking, and they did. But they are rotted out. So I started a new batch. But because I wanted to start all of them alike, everytime I cut the bottoms during cooking, I saved them in a zip lock bag and put tiny water in the bag, just to prevent dehydration. I kept the bag by the door of the fridge. This went on for about 3 weeks to 1 month. When I checked them before planting them out, they were already showing bumps and bulges. I transplanted them into a pitting mix in a bowl together, and they are sprouting green leaves now. Very few are rotten and mouldy, but majority are sprouting. I am doing all this inside the house. I am not using any special heat and my house is not the warmest in winter. I just put them close to a bright window for sunlight during the day. That it. We have a short growing season, so starting now for me is good. I will follow it and probably post the update. Thank you for the video. Very helpful.
I used the yellow onions too.
@@onlinethings9238 You can also try putting the onion bottoms on seed starter mix or potting soil for fairly good results.
Thanks for the effort, especially showing us the result it really helped us since vegetables here are expensive thank you so much!! ♥️♥️
Waaauuu this is good and easy, u dont even have to go and buy onion seedlings. Thank you very much for this video, we need more if these. God bless you. Zambia
You are most welcome.
I considered my self lucky to find and watch this video, thank you very much, may God bless you ☺️
So nice of you. God bless you too.
Thank you! That was very helpful and informative. I'm going to watch your other videos now.
This is very interesting. You have really tried, you exercised patience, the teaching is well detailed, understood and practicable. I eat onion so much, you have shown me how to achieve my long time desire. I have tried to plant it but could not get it. God bless you. Well done.
Thanks. I'm glad you found it useful.
This is very much helpful! From start to finish(harvesting bulb), thanks for your patience and sharing it with us. Onion is very pricey nowadays in our country 🇵🇭. It could be a special price for game contests and gift for those who loves to cook. 😅
You are most welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the video ❤
Thanks
I'm trying to do same so, wull be watching more of your videos. It's simple
Hi from Paris… simple easy and exhaustive approach to give a full understanding of the onion growing process… thank you! 😊
You're welcome. Thanks as well.
Thank you very much for this very helpful video. You have explained everything so well and it has inspired me!
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful.
Thanks so much for taking us through the whole process! I'm going to give it a try. Now that I've grown my own onions, I can never go back to the store-bought ones!
Sounds great! Best of luck.
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we need more people like you
This has to be the best video I've watched on onion gardening. Thanks so much
Wow, thank you! I'm humbled.
New follower😎✌🇬🇭
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Hi. I really enjoyed your video. I would just like to ask, what kind of soil did you use to grow these onions? Thank you!
Very good video. This will help me save lots of money and reduce waste. No more throwing away onion bottoms!
Glad it was helpful!
exact and enough information . i loved your video
Glad that you love it. Thanks.
Wow! Really great the way you show the different experiments! Clear and comprehensible! Thank you!
You're most welcome. Thank you as well.
The dedication and providing the theories is so top notch!!!
Thanks 😊
Cut the bottle shorter and use less water and or fill only the bottom of the bottle so the onion won't rot.
Good suggestions... Thanks.
All of my onions rotted 😔
@@kurtmagnus5243 If first you don't succeed try, try again.
I redesigned my Permaculture garden and rebuilt it with hugelkultur beds expecting the same thriving garden but that didn't happen at least not yet. That was in 2019 and I am still developing the garden. In the original 10 year old garden if I threw down seed or planted it grew. Not anymore.
The first year I tried sweet potato slips they all failed. The last two years I've had slips but all I get is roots no potatoes.
Gardening is the easiest when watching gardening videos.
I have some onion ends sitting in the plastic container from store bought mushrooms for a few weeks waiting for me to get around to putting them in water. It is cold here in the 40's during the day and the room where they are kept is only heated to 45 degrees unless I am working in the room. I have done this before. Saved ends and didn't get to it right away and they usually shrivel dry up but that was during warm weather.. But not all of them this time so maybe it's the cooler temps. I noticed today out of 12 ends 6 are dried up, the other 6 have sprouted. The ones on top of the others not against the plastic have sprouted. Just placing the onion in soil may work.
@@RayH- noted. Will change up things a litter. Maybe it’s because I’m here in Jamaica and actually left them in the sun
This is great. Thank you ☺️
Sir thank you so much. I just corrected my mistake because of this video! 🙏🏽
Amazing! Thank you for sharing this video. Greetings from Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.
Dr. Obi, thank you so much for showing us this! I will do as you have shown, looks like fun!
My pleasure! Have fun.
Eine sehr gute Idee, Dankeschön für das Video ich werde es ausprobieren
Schön, dass es dir gefallen hat. Vielen Dank.
Excellent video. I liked how you maximised the space and love the way you started the growth using plastic bottles. Excellent tutorial and appreciate the time you have spent in making it.
Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you liked it.
I think you can transplant it directly to a garden. I am currently trying it out now and it works. I live in grow zone 3, so we have lots of snow snd temp can reach -40C here. I first tried his bottled method. I tried to stop the onions from sinking, and they did. But they are rotted out. So I started a new batch. But because I wanted to start all of them alike, everytime I cut the bottoms during cooking, I saved them in a zip lock bag and put tiny water in the bag, just to prevent dehydration. I kept the bag by the door of the fridge. This went on for about 3 weeks to 1 month. When I checked them before planting them out, they were already showing bumps and bulges. I transplanted them into a pitting mix in a bowl together, and they are sprouting green leaves now. Very few are rotten and mouldy, but majority are sprouting. I am doing all this inside the house. I am not using any special heat and my house is not the warmest in winter. I just put them close to a bright window for sunlight during the day. That it. We have a short growing season, so starting now for me is good. I will follow it and probably post the update. Thank you for the video. Very helpful.
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Amen!
I am so much impressed with your teaching on how to plant onion. I really enjoyed it. God bless your handwork sir
So nice of you. Amen to your prayers. God bless you too.
@dr_obisgarden YOUR SOIL LOOKS SO GOOD!
Thanks.
Thank you for this video. It is well done. Instructions are clear and the video shows EXACTLY what to do and how the plant looks at each step. I have planted onion bottoms before but this method yields many more new onions. My timing is perfect. I have onions and it is springtime here right now. Since I am planning to make a stew tonight, I'll have onion bottoms ready to plant tomorrow. Thanks again. This is one of the clearest gardening videos I have seen yet. Excellent job!
Thanks for the kind compliment. If you've not already started, I'll recommend you watch our newest video before you start. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/z4JG1SGcrSQ/w-d-xo.html
@@dr_obisgarden I will indeed, and I have already seen several listed on your channel that interest me. We need this kind of advice, especially these days. Thanks again for all your effort in producing these videos.
Oh i love this. Since my country tries to fool us all with these planned fairytale prices i decided to start growing some food myself ❤ also potatoes seem to work similar as onions. Ive heard people writing that they use just bad potatoes they have at home and harvest a lot of potatoes from them.
So long as the potato isn't rotting, it will produce more tubers for you.
Even when prices aren't skyrocketing to the point that home-grown potatoes are actually viable, growing at home is a good way to get fingerlings.
If you want to use potatoes from the store for seed potatoes, especially in the spring, buy organic potatoes.
Many growers of potatoes spray them with a sprout inhibitor, in the spring, to stop people from being able to grow their own...sometimes, even a potato peeling will grow, if it is thick enough, and it has an 'eye' on it.
What is the best soil to use for planting onions?
Great video! Thanks for showing the entire process, including the alternative scenarios.
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Good job Dr. Obi. Your illustrations are so detailed. You are a seasoned teacher.❤
Many thanks for the compliment.
Much love from Kenya
This video is super helpful
Thanks.
In 5yrs I can have 4084101 onions. I just need to find 41 acres of soil to grow them in.
That is assuming that you won't eat any of the onions and that defeats the purpose of this video. If you're considering anything close or more than an acre, then you're veering into commercial production in which case the technique shown in this video may not be appropriate. For commercial production, it's best and faster to use seeds, sets or purchase seedlings. Happy gardening.
What fertilizer did you provide to the plants
Just watched ur vid & placed 2 half bulbs in water. Now I wait & watch. Ty much. I've been thinking about planting onions & ur vid was so easy it was all the encouragement I needed. So again, ty.
Wonderful! Best wishes.