[prakash_mib]

I regularly pay a visit for my winter onions. The yellow ones (shenzui) are good and red ones are very thin and doesnt want to grow at all. I am trying a variety of shallot (vegetable store bought) which is from south india to make a sambar. I put them in a seed tray two in a hole and filled with compost and let it in the cooler bedroom. They have longer stalks than the winter one planted outside in october last year. Is this sounds acceptable??? should i feed anything to the outside onions now?

[Trillium]

Even a cool bedroom can be warmer than outside, so longer shoots is very possible. As for feeding outside onions, I wouldn't, not just yet, as you'd stimulate growth in a still cool time when the plants are just coming out of dormancy. You don't want them spurting into growth just yet. When things warm up a bit more then you could think about feeding them.