onions- male or female?

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onions- male or female?
« on: April 06, 2008, 10:06 »
Some of the onions I planted (tiny plants not sets) have grown into nice onions but a few have only grown into small white onions and I noticed yesterday they had a pointy flower head type thing come up.  I broke it off, hoping the onion would get bigger, any thoughts?  I think that in the back of my mind there is something about onion flowers being male or female? Shall I just pull up the onions which are only the size of a large pickled onion!
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onions- male or female?
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2008, 10:18 »
Onions are unisex, the ones with flowers have 'bolted'. They will probably grow bigger, but not store. Use these first after harvest.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?


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