How to Easily Grow Your Own Onion Sets at Home
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ต.ค. 2024
- Growing your own onion sets is a great thing if you are someone who uses them. This is because the seed suppliers will sell you onion sets at the price it would cost to buy a whole bag of full sized onions, So you are not getting anywhere with that method, however with making your own onion sets, you now can grow your own onions, at home, organically, for a fraction of the price!
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Way cool! I accidentally did just this! I started more onion seeds than I could get transplanted this year. I have a tray of slumped over onions that eventually got neglected and not watered. Now I will have about 100 onion sets for next year. How awesome.
Sharon Hoyes I never said that onions started from sets do not store, I said onions that form a scape ( seed stalk) do not store, and they do not. The sets have a higher chance of going to seed than growing from seed does, and that was my only point. But to each his own,whatever works for you!
Very good , I collected onion seeds from an onion I let flower last year, first time. Sowed half and they are viable little plants so I will follow your method and grow sets, super free.
Question 2: When would you recommend starting seeds to grow sets for next year?
Thanks for the video. I'm new to seed saving. I have these onion seeds that I want to grow sets to specifically harvest for seed next year. The rest of the seed I'll grow out to see if it's an onion that I like. This sounds like a better plan than taking up garden space. Thanks!
We always plant sets in out gardens. But now i want to try this. Thanks. So helpfull!
Thanks for this video. I grew my own onion sets from seed last year. And am going to experiment this year. I am in zone 2 and have a short growing period and a challenging part shade garden. I get only morning sun and a couple hours of afternoon sun in just a corner of my yard. I also have only a patio and grow in containers. My green onions and leeks did fabulously but the bulb onions remained very small. So I am going to plant them this year and see what happens. If they go to seed and don't cure properly I will freeze and dehydrate my harvest and collect seed of course. I'm feeling hopeful as I grew an onion last year that had sprouted in my pantry. It did great at first and then the greens died back and I thought it was done. What I was hoping for was to get seeds but it didn't flower. To my surprise in the fall when I dug it up I actually had 2 twin onions. They weren't huge but were quite tasty. I just love surprises like that.
Im going to try this because my onions just haven't grown enough and the season is almost over. I'll save them for next spring!
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this video! I am curious how you usually go about planting onions since you prefer not to use sets. I’m going to search your videos as I imagine you already discussed it in a different segment.
Many thanks for that very informative video, I normally use Japanese onion sets for over wintering and seeds for spring planting. You can quite often get onion seeds reduced at the end of the season to clear, so these would be ideal for growing into sets for the following year.
Have you ever tried growing from your own seed stock?
Store..where?...fridge?...open air? What temp is good?
Great video, Luke. I'm going to try this. I'm not a fan of *_buying_* onion sets, but if I can grow them myself....yea!
nov51947 it is very handy, and since they take up so little space, and have so few requirements, its really a great way to go! Thanks for watching.
4 years I am trying onion seeds, tried so many varieties. They die as soon as I transplant in the garden. Done with that.
Thank you, I love the tutorial you made, but, you plant the seeds in spring. How long do you grow in the pots before preparing for sets?
Awesome idea!
This was very helpful.
Well that was really informative. This was my first year growing onions (from seed) but I had also planted one onion from the store I had that had sprouted and the plant grew vigorously, only to suddenly go to seed as you said it would (it wasn't even a set). It produced nothing, obviously. The seed onions are doing great so far and starting to turn to bulbs, so I'm looking forward to harvesting them later this year. Thanks for an informative video and channel.
we had a lot of small onions this year.. which we would like to use for sets for next year. Our question.. is there any special way to store these small onions? Or do we just store them in with those that are big enough to use.?
I came here looking for the same question you are.
Did you end up trying this? I have several very small onions to pull, they never really grew, was going to try.. curious how this worked for you
Hey, love your videos. I have a question, if an onion bolts or flowers after planting the set in the ground should I cut it off, let if go and fully go to flower or ? I just want the onion to get as large as it can before I harvest it and don't know if flowering will stunt it's full potential. Let me know. Thank you. Matt
Hi, it looks like nobody answered you on this, but with the understanding that I'm no master gardener, here's my experience. Due to sequences of weird weather I have twice had a patch of about thirty onions bolt. They hadn't got far into the process, just the top of the 'leaf' started to swell. I didn't really have anything to lose so I just chopped the top seed parts off. The bulbs' swelling were a little slower than usual, but it worked and I didn't lose any of them.
I don't know what the official word is on this method, but for me it worked. Happy gardening. :-)
Thank you!
Question 1: I planted an onion from the store that sprouted and now it's producing seed. Can I harvest the seeds and use them to grow sets for next year?
Dave Sterchele yes
Great! Thank you Luke
What season did you start planting for your onion six autumn winter and I enjoyed the video thanks for that kit
Do you peel off the outsides protective skin that’s dry before you plant?
Great information, so helpful. Thanks!
thank you
After planting the onion seeds for making onion sets, do you then treat them like any other plant? Watering & sunlight etc?
Thanks for the video. I am interested in doing this so I can plant sets to collect my own seed. I did not want to buy a big bag of sets when I only need a few bulbs. I will try this out this year hoping to get some seed the following year. Zone 5b Ontario Canada
Hey neighbour!! Also Ontario Canada
Great videos! Thank you!
Thank you so much
I have some onions that didn't grow super well, so they're just tiny, tiny onions. So I'm hoping they can be onion sets for next year, hence why I'm here!
Lol, me too!
U said biennial, is that why my onion sets dis bad last year and they look good this year? Some of the bulbs felt mushy though
I'm done with onion sets. They hardly grow for me. Will try the seed, thanks!
How did u store the bulb sets overwinter .. put them in pest
thank you
I was wondering about this! thank you for sharing! :)
Pretty cool and easy method :-)
How do we create a base for next year's crop, maybe letting some flower for seeds but I heard that they won't produce a large bulb? I'm confused. I'd like to create a perpetual onion garden.
Side: note: Onion, garlic and the like, their bulbs don't spread out like with a bulb flower?
After an onion has bolted, are the seed heads good for anything? Do they become sets?
So, can I plant the leftover onions as sets, that I grew from seed last year, but haven't eaten yet( some are small)?
You can but they will probably go to seed quickly
Do you / can you reuse soil?
Thanks buddie. Cant wait untill next spring.
how long can you store these onion sets? I'm trying to figure out how early I can start them.
Rivka Flashner - pretty sure as long as you can store a regular onion, a little 6 months ?
i put 3 onion sets in one container should i seperate them they are pretty small?
also how often should i water them?
I ordered onion sets, but I feel I have too many. Can I half of them and plant later? What's the shelf life of the onion sets?
+Jean Hudson Plant them all and you will love them. We always regret not planting more onions. However if you don't want to plant them all you can save them for 3-4 months.
@@MIgardener I agree. There's no such thing as too many onions.
Hi, how can I grow onion sets for commercial purpose. I want to produce in quintals.
Im definitely done with onion sets, that are year olds. Going to do half from seed, and half from plants that someone else started from seed that havent gone through dormancy yet. I can get onion sets dirt cheap, but they just arent doing it for me.
Yep, I warn everyone, but it is something you have to find out for yourself.
Interested in doing this to be able to create my own seed.
Now I have learned how i
If purchased onion sets are predominately failures, why are they sold for us to plant? I want to be successful, as we use an onion a day in my cooking sometimes more. Please help
if an flowers it reduces the self life but is still good to eat if you have onion the flower and other that do not make sure you use the flowered ones first
Can you instead of letting them die plant them outside?
your video are very good and clear thank you for posting keep posting please
+fortbumper Glad you liked it. They were very easy to make and they did quite well in the garden.
how long do they store?
they will store when completely dried on the outside for over 7 months. They may begin to sprout green tops by then, but that is totally natural. Just pop them in the ground!
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perfect! now I tried growing some of mine from seed this year and several stayed tiny to small and their tops have died off. Think these will do for sets as well? if so whats the largest you would save?
Misti Rose I would save no more than something the size of what I saved. Any bigger and they will go to seed the next year for sure.
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great, thank you!
unthawed is the opposite of thawed. Thawed means to unfreeze hence unthawed means to freeze. So you are saying we can plant our onion sets when the ground freezes in the fall?
Nooo, I would definitely recommend planting in the spring.
I don't understand onions at all! Which for some reason makes me think of Shrek. I don't know where I'm going wrong. First, I thought it was not enough fertilizer and poor soil combo. Now, I 'am growing in both a large pot and in good soil. Have tried buying local sets and planting from seed. It is a crazy disaster. HUGE greens, with beautiful fennel-like folds and no bulbs whatsoever. Season isn't over, so I'm just awaitin', but 4 or 5 plants went to seed. I am confused as to whether I should plant long-day or short day onions in Florida. Can you recommend a type for me to purchase that will work. Or, tell what I'm doing wrong?
The genus Allium is FUCKING HUGE, and people will refer to virtually every species in it as 'onions'. There are big onions, there are small onions, there are bulb onions, there are leaf onions. There are red onions, white onions, yellow onions. etc
If you are having unexpected results you need to first verify exactly what it is you planted, and that the seeds or sets you planted are of a variety which will produce the type of onion you want. As far as growing them, onions are not hard to manage, most require almost no care, and unless you live in a desert will get by just fine on rain water once or twice a month.
Green onions or scallions are a perennial onion which are harvested for their scapes (leaves) and, for some people, the white part close to the roots. These do not bulb up significantly if at all.
You have to know what you want. Do you want BIG carving onions like in the stores, do you want small onions for dicing or canning? Do you want leaf onions for garnish, spice, soup greens like shallots, chives, or scallions?
Also, don't use sets. It's like planting hamburger in hopes to harvest a cow. Sets represent a year's growth. Especially if you want bulb onions, which are harvested in the first year. All a set will do is put it's energy into going to seed, because it is in its second season. The only use for sets, is to get a mass of cheap seed. That's it. If you're hoping for large, huge grocery store onions, you will not get them from a set as Large onions are grown that season from seed.
The growth cycle of most types of onions, bulb/non-bulb from seed is: the seed germinates, growth emerges from Bud 'A' in spring and produces vegetation. Towards summer and fall, that vegetation dies back and a bulb develops. Inside the bulb, the onion is creating new apical buds B,C,D which it will use in subsequent years. This is the point where most 'bulb' onions are harvested for commercial sale. Also this is when sets are pulled to be sold. If left in ground over winter, the following year Bud A will send up another set of vegitation which is somewhat different from the previous seasons scape. This scape is to produce flowers and seed. The seed should be viable by early summer. Bud 'A' then completely dies. Winter sets in, then spring. It's now the third year. Growth will then emerge from bud 'B' or 'C' and the process will repeat just as it did in the first season. If you want seeds, buy sets. If you want to harvest 'fruit' that season, then you'll need to buy seeds. And from those seeds, if you just leave some plants to over winter in the ground, they will seed the following year. And you need to make sure that the variety you plant in the first place, will produce the type of result you expect anyway.
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@@maxdecphoenix excellent! Thank you!!
"Unthawed?" So...wait for the ground to freeze, then? Sorry, I couldn't resist. Thanks for the informative vid!
+Frank Burns LOL, I know.. I am bad with that.
My Gawd where are you buying onion sets? Guernys? Walmart prepackaged? I just bought mine. 1.27 for one large scoop. I didn’t count them but there were certainly more than a hundred. I planted 20 foot row every 3 inches and had a third left over. Any Rural King, farm store, and probably most private garden centers sell them that way.
When I had a seed and feed store locally I would buy them by the Oz. or Lb. scooped from a bin. They have since sold their property as the city over ran them their property became more $$valuable. There aren't any locally now, they're an hour away. So Sad!
Don't forget a lot of people outside the US watch these videos, and many locations don't get the choice you do in the USA. My wee plot is in a commercial growing area where there's virtually nothing available smaller than a sack of seeds or tools smaller than a tractor. I asked for onion sets, but ended up having to explain what they were - much to everyone's amusement ("You need WHAT?").
Ok, frustrating at times, but great fun learning and I'm grateful to this video for saving me several failures.
I bought 100 sets for $2.99 today.
Since onion sets are basically just small onions...would fully grown onions also work as sets? And if not, where's the cutoff point, approximately? Also, can you create a set from a set, or since they're biannuals, would the plant grown from the set be the end of the life cycle, and its bulbs not produce more life at that point?
+Frank Burns small onions really are the only thing that will work. Big onions will just go to seed.
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How and where do you store onion sets??
This is not Luke's First Rodeo !!!
i wish i had room to grow onions
Under the tomatos
Mark Ronson?
$15 for 200 onion sets? Were that the case, I would not bother growing onoins. Typically I pay $1.50 /hundred. I am upset because recently it was $1/per.
Where do you get onion sets for so cheap? Where I live you get a bundle of 25 sets for $5-$6. So 200 sets cost about $40. It’s cheaper to buy onions at the store and you don’t have to work all summer to get a harvest. I’ve been successful growing onions from sets but not from seed and am about to give up because it isn’t cost effective here.
Have You tired to build a tower onion using 5 liters plastic bottle ?