A Seed Saving Question.

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Potiron

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A Seed Saving Question.
« on: March 03, 2009, 17:40 »
I would like to have a go at some seed saving. Here is the question.
  How do you produce Onion sets to plant as sets the following year  ?   ???
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Salmo

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Re: A Seed Saving Question.
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2009, 18:23 »
You plant onion seed very close together so that stunted bulbs are formed for planting the next year. The exact details I do not know but I imagine that if you plant the seed too early they will all bolt to seed the next Spring and if planted too late they will not form bulbs at all.

A proportion of sets you buy always bolt anyway unless you pay a little more for heat treated ones where any embryo flowers have been killed.

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Re: A Seed Saving Question.
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2009, 20:03 »
Thanks Salmo.  Just might give it a try, nothing ventured, nothing gained.  :nowink:

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Re: A Seed Saving Question.
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2009, 09:33 »
The phrase heat treated comes to mind in association with onion sets, don't know what they actually do to them though, so as you quite rightly say, you might as well give it a go.
(And let us know how you get on.  :D ;) )
I demand the right to buy seed of varieties that are not "distinct, uniform and stable".


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