[Donnay]

Hello, some of my red onions have run to seed. I have been told to snip the end off, where the seed head is, and it will continue to grow.

Can anyone tell me if this advice is correct, if not do I just pull them up? Also why have some run to seed, they are red baron.

[RookieJim]

I pulled mine up, removed the stalks, chopped up the onions and put them in a gravy 

Jim

[mumofstig]

Yes just chop the flower stalks off, and the bulb will carry on growing. Those bulbs will never dry properly for storage though, so make sure you use those ones up first.

The red ones usually do it more than the ordinary ones, I don't know why 

[Yorkie]

Plants run to seed early usually owing to some form of stress e.g. drought, cold, wet, hot 

And the red onions are more sensitive 

[Flowertot]

Trust mine to be different! My Red Barons are fine but I cant keep up with the flower spikes appearing on the white onions next to them...  

[JohnB47]

Hello, some of my red onions have run to seed. I have been told to snip the end off, where the seed head is, and it will continue to grow.

Can anyone tell me if this advice is correct, if not do I just pull them up? Also why have some run to seed, they are red baron.

Just wondering - when did you plant? Sets presumably?

[Donnay]

I planted the sets towards the end of April!