The Allium Thread

[Snadger]

.........................[Snadger means 5 days longer, not 5 days - usually between a week and 2 to germinate, so don't panic...it's only been 13 days so far for you].

Just checked, mine started to appear after 5 days and all that were going to grow were up by 8 days!

[Snadger]

Taking my Golden Bear onions to the allotment to go into my trickle heated tent thingy tonight.
Next ones to sow and put in the propagator will be my Rossa Lunga Di Firenze!

[Bex]

My leeks seem far slower to germinate than my onions were, is this normal?

[zazen999]

My leeks seem far slower to germinate than my onions were, is this normal?

Yes - leeks can be a bit annoying like that!

[northepaul]

Finally....!!

Can you bring them indoors for a few days?

I've got some that have taken a while; they come through eventually. Older seed usually takes longer anyway.

[Snadger means 5 days longer, not 5 days - usually between a week and 2 to germinate, so don't panic...it's only been 13 days so far for you].

I looked today after moving them into the spare room by the window & radiator and have about 8 shoots so far....thats 19 days. Still I am just glad they did something

[Herbie]

All the onions have germinated. They are just past the crook stage so will need to sort them this week. Going to sow some leeks next. It is great to be sowing at last Even though the dreaded snow may be on its way back.

[Rocketron]

I sowed onions on 2.1.10 in a heated propogator. Today I potted on. When should I plant into the ground? Are they like leeks, in that you wait until they're pencil thick?

[chriscross1966]

Finally managed to get my first batch sown today, about three weeks later than intended but between the weather and the outdoor socket getting used for outdoor lights over christmas...

120 seeds assorted large onions in individual modules (mix of Kelsaes, Giant Spanish and Russian Size), two/three seeds per module of Tropea, Sturon, Aisla Craig, White Spanish and a Finnish strain of Walking (tree) onion (total 60 modules) and finally (for the moment) 5 seeds per module of Long Red Florence (40 modules).

There'll be another sowing of Sturon, Tropea, Sweet Spanish, Aisla Craig, and LRF before the propagators get turned over to other veg.

chrisc

[Bex]

My onions aren't doing too well, they look a bit sick. They started off fine and now they seem to be going a bit wilty at the ends, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[zazen999]

My onions aren't doing too well, they look a bit sick. They started off fine and now they seem to be going a bit wilty at the ends, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Where are they - too warm? too wet?

[Bex]

Where are they - too warm? too wet?

On a bedroom windowsill, could it be they are too warm?

[zazen999]

On a bedroom windowsill, could it be they are too warm?

Yes. As soon as they are germinated, at about an inch tall; they need to go outside, a cold greenhouse, a coldframe, an upturned plastic container.....if they are too warm they can fall over or wither away.

Check out 'damping off', which happens due to poor airflow, which you can get if they are indoors too long.

[Bex]

Yes. As soon as they are germinated, at about an inch tall; they need to go outside, a cold greenhouse, a coldframe, an upturned plastic container.....if they are too warm they can fall over or wither away.

Check out 'damping off', which happens due to poor airflow, which you can get if they are indoors too long.

Would my tent cloche, be ok to keep them in? I hope so as I'm running out of room at home.

[Incy]

Will they recover if they have wilted a bit?

[chriscross1966]

My onions aren't doing too well, they look a bit sick. They started off fine and now they seem to be going a bit wilty at the ends, any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Too warm for the light available, possibly under/overwatered (the first if the soil is bone dry, the second if it is in anything but dry), damping off (cure with coppe-based fungicides but best avoided by using Cheshunt Compound at sowing) or an outside vote for Botrytis cos it can be a bugger in a greenhouse, imported into the GH annually with the overwintering flowers that I'm not allowed to spray with anythign that might fix it.....

chrisc