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Post by brian1985 on Feb 22, 2019 15:34:11 GMT
Hey guys do you think its time for these onions to be transplanted to a solo cup? Also any way to fix there legginess?
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Post by feather on Feb 22, 2019 15:38:31 GMT
Hey Brian, excellent looking onions!
Trim them with a scissors to 2 inches. When I plant my transplants in the garden, I have them in trays like you do. I don't transplant to dixie cups or anything. The roots are generally twisted and bound together but they do eventually pull apart. (I plant them in the bottom tray of seed starting trays 20x10 inches.)
How long until you can get them into the garden?
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Post by brian1985 on Feb 22, 2019 15:44:25 GMT
That's what I'm wondering. I've heard onions can take a frost? My average last frost date is may 15. I was told about a month before that? Then someone said in 8b they wait until end of April. So I'm wondering if April 15 is pushing it?
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Post by feather on Feb 22, 2019 16:01:21 GMT
I've heard they won't be stunted by a frost. I'm in zone 4-5, so we don't plant until the end of May.....but we've put in onions before that.
I hope someone in your zone knows what works in your area. Nice job on the onions.
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Post by brian1985 on Feb 22, 2019 16:07:50 GMT
Gave them a haircut. Hopefully I didnt go to short.
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Post by feather on Feb 22, 2019 16:14:56 GMT
They look good, now you can give up your day job.
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Post by Skandi on Feb 22, 2019 16:28:59 GMT
I put mine out 2 months before last frost, but after the chance of hard frosts as it were.
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Post by Maura on Feb 22, 2019 17:49:34 GMT
I would not hurt to cover them if there might be frost. Just newspaper is fine. You could also top them with loose hay or leaves.I would do this because the roots will not be deep for a while.
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Post by oxankle on Feb 23, 2019 3:53:35 GMT
I suspect that if they are hit by hard frosts and burned back they might bolt to seed when the weather warms.
Onion sets are on sale here, last week of Feb. but no plants to be seen yet. I am going to wait for warm weather.
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Post by bowdonkey on Feb 23, 2019 13:44:13 GMT
You done it perfectly. I have in the past planted onion seeds in pots and placed them out mid February ala Martin. Search for his technique here. I now start them inside for a quicker start and after their first haircut place them out and then plant out once the ground can be worked. Usually beginning of May sometime. Zone 3a here.
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Post by feather on Aug 21, 2019 2:10:43 GMT
My onions are falling over in the garden. We have about 50 drying on the picnic table with a tarp over them until they are dry enough to cut the dried out stalk. The rest of them are still in the garden. I was looking for a perfect storage temperature for long storing onions. It looks like 40 deg F is perfect and 50 deg F is still okay just a little less perfect. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4984720/I'm seriously considering turning my cheese cave refrigerator in the basement, down to 40 deg F instead of its usual 53 deg F. It won't hurt the cheese just slow the aging, but it would be good for the onions. Thinking ...thinking.
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