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Post by kctomato on Apr 12, 2013 11:25:24 GMT -5
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 12, 2013 12:52:04 GMT -5
Interesting. I never knew that. Now I will be counting onion leaves every year.
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Post by gixxerific on Apr 12, 2013 16:29:49 GMT -5
I love Dixondale they have great service and product. And as you see ton's of great info on their site including videos. Don't forget the monthly newsletter. LOL
Didn't read the link but guessing from Lin'd reply it is about each leaf being a ring on the onion.
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Post by txdirtdog on Apr 12, 2013 18:16:44 GMT -5
I love Dixondale they have great service and product. And as you see ton's of great info on their site including videos. Don't forget the monthly newsletter. LOL Didn't read the link but guessing from Lin'd reply it is about each leaf being a ring on the onion. I agree about Dixondale. They seem to be good folks. And yeah, the video is about the number of leaves equaling rings and the number of leaves and size of leaves having bearing on size of bulb. They said 13 is the target number with 9 being ok. I had to look and have a few 10s, a lot of 11s and thought I saw just a couple of 12s. No 13s. Although some of the onions are still putting on new leaves from the center despite already a goodly start on bulbing. Good article. Thanks for posting it KC.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 12, 2013 19:11:01 GMT -5
Yours are better than mine, but then I know already my soil is not "there" yet. I have a few 12s and 11s, some 10s, a bunch of 9s, and sadly a bunch that I already knew were not doing well (most of those are in one brand new bed...all were kept watered and weeded, and given the exact same fertilizers, so there is something going on in that bed.) Hopefully I will get a few jumbos, a few larges, and a bunch of medium ones, and do better next year. The itty bitty ones should still taste good, right?
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Post by whistech on Apr 27, 2013 20:07:26 GMT -5
I planted dixondale transplants in early February. One bunch each of Southern Belle, Texas 10=15, and Red Creole. I don't have any 13 leaves and doubt I will get any. I do have several 10s and 9s, but mostly 8s. I do have some good sized Southern Belle and 10-15 onions about baseball sized. The Red Creoles are about between a golf ball and a tennis ball size. I don't know how much longer they will keep growing, but they have really put on a sprint of growth in the last 2 weeks.
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Post by gixxerific on Apr 28, 2013 8:16:25 GMT -5
Don't forget a good dose of Nitrogen garlic and onions need a lot of nitro. You basically treat them as you would a leafy green. The more leaf you have the more energy there is to form a bulb.
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Post by txdirtdog on Apr 28, 2013 8:28:29 GMT -5
Hey Whistech, in our area, December is the recommended time for the transplanting sets like from Dixondale. I'm around December 10th time frame. You would either be the same or a couple weeks later - not quite sure.
My reds and whites are significantly smaller than the yellows bulb-wise right now. So much so that I'm thinking of planting the reds and whites seperately from the yellows next December so that I can continue feeding them with a high nitrogen fertilizer after the yellows have started bulbing and are switched to a different fertilizer. I've definitely noticed that having them spaced farther apart is affecting the size of the yellow bulbs at this point. The ones that I've got 4 inches apart and also pulled the dirt back some from the bulb have grown significantly larger than the ones I haven't thinned (2 inches apart) or pulled some dirt back from.
Good luck!
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