Join us today for a great Howto video on properly extracting your seedlings from a 4inch pot mass planting method. We also will go over selective choosing when it comes to thinning out the amount of onion plants. Lastly we will go over how to transplant your onions seedlings once they are plucked form the others. Hopefully tis way you will have giant onions too!
MIgardener Store: https://www.facebook.com/MIgardener/app_251458316228
Join the fun on facebook @ http://www.facebook.com/MIgardener
+1 me on Google+ @ http://www.google.com/+MIgardener
Pin me on Pinterest @ http://www.pinterest.com/MIgardenerYT
Follow the fun on twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/MI_Gardener
Send mail to:
PO box 131
Marysville, MI 48040
450+ varieties of Heirloom & Non-GMO Vegetable seeds .99/pack, fertilizer, garden tools, blog & More: http://www.MIgardener.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MIgardener
Instagram: http://instagram.com/MIgardener
G+: http://plus.google.com/+MIgardener
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/MIgardenerYT/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/MI_gardener
Tumblr: http://tumblr.com/MIgardener Check out our new clothing line! http:www.freshpickedapparel.com
would it be possible to do onions in a balcony planter?not really in a good spot to be making a big outdoor garden ^^'
Do you fertilize the seedlings and if so, how do you do it?
Cotyledon: Mono & Di. It sounds funny to me to pronounce it with emphasis on the final syllable. My teachers always pronounced it with emphasis on the third. But, that may be a northern vs. southern thang. (?)
Anyway, I'm going to be transplanting from a flat of Walla Walla into the garden soon. Helpful video for separating and selecting.
Luke, I have a couple onions that came up from last year. They are at least 3 feet tall and have a big seed head on them. They haven't bent over and turned brown. Do I have some super onions or have they gone too far?
Just watched 3 of your onion videos in a row…. basically a long list of you explaining all the things I didn't do with my onions the one time I tried to grow some. Now I'm confident I'll have better success next year. I will start from seed in November or December and do all the things you suggest. Yay! I love onions.
Thanks for this post. It give me courage so to speak.
After watching this some time back I decided to start my onions in plastic (like Solo cups) cups from the dollar tree/general. I got a pack of like 16 for a dollar. And I ended up getting two packs, that were different colors, so I put one variety in one color and the other in the other color. They've done really well, it's almost time to get em planted outside and I don't have to stress over cutting it up, because they were cheaper than "seed starting cups"
How long do you keep them in these pots before transplanting into the garden?
you could re use the plastic for name posts.
JUST like you do those yogurt cup plastic with silver or white sharpe!!! 😀
Thank you for the video very helpful but i do have a question, i sowed my seeds in a a small planter with only about 3 inches of soil and they are grouped together maybe 6-10 stems within a 1 inch area, they are currently about 2 inches long approximately 4 weeks from when i sowed them should i take them out now because i don't think there is enough soil/space for them to grow or should i wait longer until there even bigger and if i wait longer is them being in the small planter going to affect them? any advice would be appreciated ty.
Thank You for the great video and information.
Keep’er movin’
Wow your soil sounds so complicated… Mine is basically just some random soil that wasn't even bought from the store. I hope it still works…
wow>>> very good video!
Do you have a video about beets? I know that your probably not supposed to transplant beets but I was hoping for some suggestions and a how to video
is this even worth it for one green onion in each pot?
It’s is not practical for me. I grow 300 onions for me and I do starts for my parents too. I can’t imagine doing that for over 400 onions.
are the onions then transplanted again after this ?
You high dude?
When I hear the word "discard" I cringe, I never discard my seedlings that don't make the original grade, I repot them and keep looking after them. Last year my peppers and eggplants looked really good and I gave some of my plants to a friend, when it was time to plant I did and was feeling very proud of myself…..then we got a late frost and I lost those plants, after I got over my mourning (I know, I'm weird) I found that my discards have grown nice and healthy so I waited and planted a bit late and got some great peppers and eggplants. My tomatoes did get clobbered and lose a lot of leaves but I still got lots of tomatoes except that they ripened on the vine and I had to keep picking and using, usually I have to go pick them before I lose them to frost. Anyway, I hope this is a help to someone. Thanks for the tips, I've never grown onions as I don't think I have your patience BUT I might give it a crack this year.
Looks like you started these on 2/16 and are transplanting them on 3/7. Wouldn't it be easier to just wait for 4 weeks and transplant plant them outside? I live in northern OH, and start onions around Feb 20th inside, under grow-lights as you do. Then I usually set my onion starts directly outside around 4/20, hardening them off over a few weeks before. They're a little bigger than the ones you've got there, and the roots are more tangled together, but they're still quite young and robust.
I love how thorough you explain things. This is so helpful. Thank you!
I messed up and only have one onion growing per 42mm peat moss pellet. I have 50 single little onions! lol. Since I am still teetering on planting times in 7a, should I start over and reseed to this bunch method?
Thanks this helped lots
I noticed you said water from the bottom, why is that? I thought you always water from the top?
So I read that I should transplant my onions from seed when they are around the size of a pencil lead. Mine are currently that size, but nowhere near as long as the ones you are doing (maybe 2 or 3"). I want to make sure I have them planted in their permanent place in time, but it's already almost mid April? Do I just continue to wait until their as long as yours or go for it now with my tiny ones?
I realise this vid was a very long time ago, but just couldn't get over what you paid for 1 or 3 packets of seeds, you said $50 right. The equivalent in the uk if you were paying a lot would be about 10 bucks. I'd expect to pay 1.49 to 2.50 for a packet of onion seeds. Always interested in the differences of growing in different places..
Thank you for this video!
I was having a hard time trying to find a video about transplanting like this.
Pretty sure they are all going to die through this process.