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Hi All,

I grew my summer crop of onions from seed for the first time this year. I dont know if this is down to the weather we had but most of them developed the thick seed shoots. I picked off the seed pods as they appeared in the hope they would be ok.

Can anyone advise me if this was down to the amount of wet weather we had or should I have taken earlier precautions to prevent this.

Thanks

Steve

Youre not the only one and Id say bad weather to blame. I read somewhere that onions only absorb an inch of water per week, but over the last 4 mths we seem to have got twice that per day!?

A seed head is sent up when the plant is stressed, or it thinks it has had its day (ie time to reproduce) and our poor crops this year have had a lot to cope with. only last week I noticed seed heads on my leeks?!! Even noticed sprouts developing already!! Yup, its been a shi-ite year, better luck next season hey?!
:-\

I've grown onions from seed pretty much the whole of my life on and off and this year is the first I've seen bolting amongst seed grown onions....

Thanks for the advice will try again next year. Glad to see this has been a problem due to the weather.