Can you regrow leeks you bought in the supermarket from the chopped off end piece? Yes, of course you can! Full transcript of video here: https://tikki.co/regrow-supermarket-leeks-easily/
In this video I regrow the supermarket leeks three different ways, and you will see which way worked the best. Never throw out those ends again, regrow them instead!
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I love your videos! I'll be doing this next time we buy leaks! Thanks! 😀
What kind of net cups do you use? The 2 inch ones or the 3 inch ones? Can anyone help me? Thanks!
Great video, thank you
So how do you know when they are ready to harvest and eat the new growth?
You could use black art paper and make a tube and put the leek in side that way dirt will not be a problem
Leeks grow crazy fast, it's insane. However they need to grow for 90 days before they reach the "fullness" of a store bought one.
I'm glad your video has a whole portion of seeing the various ways of regrowing and what those methods resulted in.
Thanks, I'll give it a try too! I suggest trimming the old bearded one so it could regrow a new root system instead of fighting to regenerate one that got dried out.
Very good video, I learned a lot, thank you
The hairy roots wanted dirt… the water drowned them. The bare one grew those roots for water so they stayed safe.
This is the Best video on the topic that i have seen so far, but one question, how long in average does it take to achieve full size during the regrowth period ? 4 months ? 5 months ? Thank you for your time
Hi i'm also trying this i wanted to know how to water them please like how many times a week?
can i leave them in the grown all winter long ??????????
This is the quality content I crave. Thank you for the thorough video and including your learning process with the hilling!
Wow. Your supermarket leeks have a much greater ratio of white to green flesh.
Please do a video on regrow cabbage from scraps
isnt she dead?
Leeks will regrow back to almost full size in about 1 1/2 months. It is important to note that leeks are a "winter onion," which means they spread at the root. Leeks put off tiny baby leeks at the bottom bulb, and they will grow up slowly. Break the off and replant them, eat the mother plant, save the end of the mother plant and re-grow it yet again.
There are a lot of other kinds of winter onions that spread at the root, "multipliers," which are the big onion in the bag from the grocery story, which if you save the roots and a little of the top, soak it in water, replant them, more than on onion will grow back up attached together, as this is how it will reproduce, and the same with the little green onions in the pack from the store. When replanting the small green onions from the store, save the bottom 1/2 to an inch at the end where the root is, and replant it, water it, and 2 baby onions will shoot back up, in a few weeks will be a full size onion, here is a note though, it will have 2 in one, wait until it is almost full size to separate it where they are still attached together at the root, at least until they are half full grown or it will kill both of the onions. When you separate a multiplier, it is difficult to make sure that all the new baby onions get a piece of the root, so cut the root into with a knife.
Potato onions, which grow baby onions on under the dirt at the bulb base of the onion, akin to how a leek reproduces, is probably the best kind to have, and the hardest to attain…
The topset onions have little babies on the top of the plant, and when the top dies and falls over, the little onions will hit the ground and take root. They are Egyptian walking onions, and top set onions. These are not easy to attain either, no one wants to give their up to sell them.
The multipliers are easy to get, just buy the onions in the store and regrow them, and when regrow them they will multiply. I would add with those, if you do not cut them down to the bottom 1/2 to 1 inch at the bottom and regrow them, they will not multiply, will not make 2 onions. If you just plant them straight into the ground, at least the little green onions, they will live over winter in most areas, but they will not multiply until you cut them down about 1 inch or 3/4 of an inch from the root… Just a note on it. We have left them in the ground and just cut the tops off, if you have a big bed of onions, and cut off part of the green stalk on several onions, it turns out to be enough to flavor many dishes, and does save one money.
I planted two leeks in pots snd put them outside. They are both growing and now have little bulbs growing in the green tops. What are these ? They look like they might open up and be flowers. We will see,
How often should you water them once in the soil?
Thank you ! My leeks went to seed fast this year ( due to the cold and hot back and forth). Your video answered so many question. Thanks
Another quality video! There may be something about a gardening podcast I listened to recently where the guest was adamant about differentiating the difference between roots started in soil and roots started in water. Maybe beardy was a strictly soil root, given a curveball when emerged in water? But I am grateful for your work, you do a great job in so many dimensions. Even if your a Folgers drinker ;P
I realize the comment stream here is old, but this video was great for me! I just went to a farmers market and bought a bunch of leeks planning to use the stalks for something though I actually bought them to replant the tips so we could always have them available. I've done this with green onions for a while now and it's great to have them always there when we need them. One thing I was a bit concerned about was that these had been mostly chopped off at the tip, so wasn't how they'd do. You answered my question, and I also didn't know about hilling. Very informative, thank you and I voted up and subscribed and will check out your other stuff.
seems like you can always start roots in water – and go from aquatic to terrestrial, but you can rarely go from a root that grew in soil to a root in water. I suspect it wouldn't have gone much differently for the 'bearded one' had it been planted in overly wet soil (mud) and kept that way. Low O2 levels, and could be that the mychorzial fungus that was living symbiotically w/ the roots started rotting out under water too, taking the root with it. I would be interested to see what would have happened with a direct planting of that one right into some nice garden soil. I'm thinking it would have done great.