Regrow New Onions From Another Onion? Well, let’s find out. In this video, we revisit the experiment from last summer where we sliced off the root end of a regular yellow onion, suspended it in water until it rooted, then planted it. Apparently that wasn’t good enough and the naysayers said that a true onion will never form again from that sliced end.
Well, ok then. Let’s find out.
Entire Onion Regrow Vlog Series
Part 1: You are already here
Part 2: https://youtu.be/cN4Xm4-t7iM
Part 3: https://youtu.be/acd4U0Pw2Zs
Part 4: Coming after part 3.
Part 5: Proof is in the pudding!
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I watched the video on growing onions from the roots you posted last year and then saw you had an update this year where you planted more roots again. Did you get a true onion to grow from the roots last year or did you just get green sprouts coming out of it?
FYI, I watched your last onion video you reference and since (1-2weeks ago) tried it, so I’m back, to see the results!
Show harvest also
Can someone help me, why is mine shrinking? Looks like it’s dying.
Thank you so much for your helpful tips. Your videos are well done and easy to follow! I’m now growing an onion on my little balcony!
This video was really helpful…. I'm glad that there's someone out there who's willing to give us amazing tutorials on how to grow seeds and other stuff. I tried it and I'm really getting results from my onion scraps. I just hope the third video comes out soon because I really hope I'm not too late to split the onion scraps
How often to change water? Thx
Yes !! I started mine a week ago !
instead of running your mouth so much, why don't you just get on with it and show how to plant the durn thing?
I'm trying this with Spanish and leeks. Starting Oct 22/2020.
I had an indoor garden experiment in 2012, it worked great, but have not done since. Cheers.
Like this
How long do you need to sproud in the water?
Please I hope you see my message, please what type of technology should I involve in onion farming
Thank you, it's a very useful tip! I don't know if you know about another useful thing with regard to onions, which I discovered by accident. That is to make a potent, very nutritious liquid plant feed from the water that you used to rinse an onion with.
During a time of severe water restrictions my family and I began to collect waste water to use it for the garden. We put a small plastic tub in the sink and transferred water from that into plastic buckets. We also rinsed onions under the tap before chopping it up. In this way the little bit of moisture at the cut ends ("onion juice") ended up in the buckets, mixed with the water we used to rinse the onions. After a while we noticed that if the water in the buckets were left to stand for a while, it became more and more smelly.
Natural sciences are not my strong suit, but somewhere I read that fresh onion tends to attract microbes or bacteria from the surrounding environment. It certainly seems that something mysterious happened when we left water that had even a little bit of onion juice in it standing overnight. The water became more and more smelly and cloudy, and plants thrived on it, they were so clearly revitalized.
Since then we've been using it regularly, since we eat onions with practically every meal. At the moment we are considering utilizing it on a larger scale so that more plants could benefit.
It helps that we've never cleaned the buckets — it creates the ideal "breeding" environment for the onion water microbes. The smellier the water becomes, the more nutritious it seems to be.
It's no use dropping actual onion pieces into the bucket — that just creates a particularly revolting smell without noticeably affecting the water it is floating in. It's the juice (even just a tiny bit of it) that is able to turn the entire bucketful of water into potent liquid plant feed.
Wishing you all the best!!
Thank you for sharing!
God bless!
I just plant them directly into my beds and they grow great
I can vouch for it! It does work. I got 6 small onions from an onion bottom. Also some went to seed and now I have seeds for next spring. Well worth saving your onion and garlic bottoms just for the seeds and sets alone.
cutting onions off at the three quarter point make them turn into four onions and then sixteen onion and after that is just gets to big. it would be a big show man. please try it and remember all you have to do it top them and then add compost to the row around it.
But… just NO. The old "squishy" and sprouting onions are perfect to plant.
I've been trying to regrow my onion using this method. Unfortunately, it always fail. The root grew a little, and then ultimately stop, while the onion itself start to dry out. The root is brown in color. Does anyone know what's going on? How do you prevent (and fix) it from happening? Thanks in advance
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I'm such a novice! You're awesome! Thanks for the helpful videos!
How about using a rooting hormone to excelorate more roots faster
Video #3 is now up! https://youtu.be/acd4U0Pw2Zs Time to divide those multi-headed onions if you haven't already!
Where are videos 4 and 5? Can't find them.
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