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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: jesssands on September 01, 2013, 14:19:36

Title: whats happening to this onion?
Post by: jesssands on September 01, 2013, 14:19:36

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/jesssands1/2013-09-01125945_zps4c0983af.jpg) (http://s7.photobucket.com/user/jesssands1/media/2013-09-01125945_zps4c0983af.jpg.html)


Looks like its having babies out of its bottom?!!
They have been drying in the shed since july.

Title: Re: whats happening to this onion?
Post by: gavinjconway on September 01, 2013, 19:52:59

Just a bit of nature .... they sometimes split like that..

Title: Re: whats happening to this onion?
Post by: Hi_Hoe on September 01, 2013, 20:10:06

I think its trying to regrow! in the right (...or wrong....?) environment, garlic does the same. Ive had this before - use these onions first!

Title: Re: whats happening to this onion?
Post by: squeezyjohn on September 02, 2013, 23:21:10

Agreed!

It's not dead or dormant and has been left upside down and is trying to grow in the opposite direction through the split in the roots

Title: Re: whats happening to this onion?
Post by: ed dibbles on September 03, 2013, 19:20:50

Many ornamental bulbs can be propagated using this "damaged basal plate" technique.

Hyacinths are the obvious example but you can see how it would work with alliums too.

Best to eat what you can of this one though. :happy7: