Great video with great information. Onions are one of my favorites because they are so useful in so many dishes and can keep all winter depending on type. Thanks for sharing your knowledge as I’m trying to improve my onion growing skills and know how!
I enjoy watching your channel SO much! I use yellow candy onion seeds, heavily seeded in a four-inch pot, for growing chives throughout the year (no matter the weather) under my indoor grow lights and they make the best chives my wife and I have ever had! They are so much more robust than the chive seeds you can grow and are very good on potatoes and just about everything else you can imagine. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about onions with us! ~ Your neighbor in Kansas ~
Great in-depth info about onions! I had so much trouble with onion sets in the past, I had given up on onions. Last year, I tried some Sweet Spanish Utah from seed mostly because they help repel pests from the garden, watched a couple of videos, and had some success with them. I learned a lot about the common mistakes, many of which I made. I've had my onion starts under lights with my peppers and I wondered about the 16 hours of light...I'm still not sure if I actually need a separate timer for onions or what is best. I think when they are really young, maybe it doesn't matter so much. They seem to look ok so far and will be going in the garden very soon.
Thanks! Awesome job growing your own. I looked into the process of what triggers onions to bulb and found this article from Dixiondale farms where we get our onions. It looks like there is both a daylight length requirement and a thermal time requirement. Temperature is important to growth. My plants all start growing faster when the weather warms up. You calculate growing degree days by taking the average temperature minus the base temperature and then just summing it up per day. The base temperature is the point where growth happens. It’s different for each crop. For onions that is 45 degrees F. So Maximum temp + minimum temp/2-base temperature (45)for onions. Easier math is that Dixondale farms says it takes 160-200 heat units for an onion to how a new leaf. And you need to accumulate about 2200 heat units to start to bulb by transferring the carbohydrates in the leaves into the bulb. So if your onions have less heat units than that you should be fine! Here’s the link www.onionpatch.dixondalefarms.com/heat-units-in-onions/#:~:text=The%20basis%20for%20onions%20is,)%2F2%2D45%3D15.
@@iowabackyardfarmer2952 That's a pretty interesting article. I am well acquainted with the concept of growing degree days for corn and beans, and it makes perfect sense that it applies to basically all plants. I don't remember if you mentioned or if I saw someone else talking about how days to maturity for vegetables are driven by growing degree days. If you get good growing weather for the plant, they mature much faster. Thanks for the link! I really appreciate the depth that you guys go to in explaining techniques to succeed with different types of plants.
Thank you! We could find onion bulbs at most home and garden centers. For the onion starts, Earl May usually has a good selection as well. They carried a few that we didn't have but they probably also order in their boxes from Dixondale who is the largest onion grower or somewhere like that in Texas. For some varieties I could only find seeds.
Please try not to interrupt one another. There is room/time for each of you to speak and for your viewers then to appreciate what you both have to say.
Great video with great information. Onions are one of my favorites because they are so useful in so many dishes and can keep all winter depending on type. Thanks for sharing your knowledge as I’m trying to improve my onion growing skills and know how!
I enjoy watching your channel SO much! I use yellow candy onion seeds, heavily seeded in a four-inch pot, for growing chives throughout the year (no matter the weather) under my indoor grow lights and they make the best chives my wife and I have ever had! They are so much more robust than the chive seeds you can grow and are very good on potatoes and just about everything else you can imagine. Thank you for sharing your knowledge about onions with us!
~ Your neighbor in Kansas ~
This is a brilliant idea! I can see how that would taste awesome. Thanks for the suggestion and good feedback!
Great in-depth info about onions! I had so much trouble with onion sets in the past, I had given up on onions. Last year, I tried some Sweet Spanish Utah from seed mostly because they help repel pests from the garden, watched a couple of videos, and had some success with them. I learned a lot about the common mistakes, many of which I made. I've had my onion starts under lights with my peppers and I wondered about the 16 hours of light...I'm still not sure if I actually need a separate timer for onions or what is best. I think when they are really young, maybe it doesn't matter so much. They seem to look ok so far and will be going in the garden very soon.
Thanks! Awesome job growing your own. I looked into the process of what triggers onions to bulb and found this article from Dixiondale farms where we get our onions. It looks like there is both a daylight length requirement and a thermal time requirement. Temperature is important to growth. My plants all start growing faster when the weather warms up. You calculate growing degree days by taking the average temperature minus the base temperature and then just summing it up per day. The base temperature is the point where growth happens. It’s different for each crop. For onions that is 45 degrees F. So Maximum temp + minimum temp/2-base temperature (45)for onions. Easier math is that Dixondale farms says it takes 160-200 heat units for an onion to how a new leaf. And you need to accumulate about 2200 heat units to start to bulb by transferring the carbohydrates in the leaves into the bulb. So if your onions have less heat units than that you should be fine! Here’s the link
www.onionpatch.dixondalefarms.com/heat-units-in-onions/#:~:text=The%20basis%20for%20onions%20is,)%2F2%2D45%3D15.
@@iowabackyardfarmer2952 That's a pretty interesting article. I am well acquainted with the concept of growing degree days for corn and beans, and it makes perfect sense that it applies to basically all plants. I don't remember if you mentioned or if I saw someone else talking about how days to maturity for vegetables are driven by growing degree days. If you get good growing weather for the plant, they mature much faster. Thanks for the link! I really appreciate the depth that you guys go to in explaining techniques to succeed with different types of plants.
Who do you buy your onions from besides Dixondale? I'd like to try some of the onions you mentioned. Thanks... love your channel!
Thank you! We could find onion bulbs at most home and garden centers. For the onion starts, Earl May usually has a good selection as well. They carried a few that we didn't have but they probably also order in their boxes from Dixondale who is the largest onion grower or somewhere like that in Texas. For some varieties I could only find seeds.
Please try not to interrupt one another. There is room/time for each of you to speak and for your viewers then to appreciate what you both have to say.
Thanks for the feedback! We will definitely try to do better :)