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!!
Wow!!!! This is very interesting!!!! We too eat onions with just about everything. We have a friend who told us he is allergic to onions....I was like...HOW???? I had never heard of anyone be allergic to onions!!!! How do you cook without onions?????? They do not eat with us...we eat out with them...hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! But I LOVE the ONION WATER idea!!!!!
I have half of a red onion thriving in the darkness of my crisper drawer. I’ve left it there as a bit of an experiment. Time to split it up and plant it in my garden.
Great video.. I’m giving it a go myself.. by the way, if you use narrow jars like the ones with herbs and spices you can just sit the onion base on the top without having to use the sticks to suspend it
I have an onion end that I'm going to put in water today!!!! Thank you for sharing this! I've wondered if they will grow if you just stick them in the soil, but I guess its better to go with the water first and then soil!!!!
That's great I'm glad it inspired you to try it. I think it could possibly work, the only problem would be if it rots or dries out before the roots establish. A full onion definitely would, it's just a big bulb after all, but not having the full skin for protection might cause problems. Maybe I'll give it a go in the future!
As long as the plant is alive it won’t rot, so as long as you grow roots before planting like with the onion it will be fine. Unfortunately broccoli is the flower of the plant and it’s a lot more difficult to try and grow as it doesn’t have the parts needed to regrow already there.
I’ve started about a dozen onions this way but none of them have developed bulbs, even 6 months on. Rich green stalks and extensive roots but no bulbs. Any comments or suggestions here?
Im glad you liked it! The updates were in other update videos but there’s an 18 month update here: ua-cam.com/video/7-AgjQ0ljLM/v-deo.htmlsi=sYMfTrlzJsYIOHxL I’m going to put them all in one video in the next week or so.
Hi Tina, it's still going! It's just started growing again now after winter. It looks like it's growing three or four plants so I'm considering splitting it, but I might grow another one to test that incase it doesnt work. You could definitely try cutting it into sections as long as each part has roots and a stem it should work.
Hi i am starting to learn gardening i want to do it indoors with either kratky or hydroponics what brand seeds do you recommend i have loads from wilko . Thank you 😊
Hi it's still going and i've fed it a couple of times. It hasn't grown as big as regular onions would and it's starting to flower, but it's growing well. You can see the updates for it in my April tour video and the May one going up later today.
Hi yes the most recent update is during this video: ua-cam.com/video/kl34R9xSCms/v-deo.html The onion flowers are starting to open at the moment, but i'll possibly fit in another dedicated video over the next couple of weeks.
Hi it's dormant at the moment over winter so I'll be repotting it ready for it to start growing as it warms up, but it's still going! I'll definitely be doing an update on it in a couple of weeks!
I mean I have made multiple update and progress videos of this onion plant that would suggest otherwise. You can literally find out how it works in this video, but don’t let facts get in the way!
Thanks for checking out this video, don't forget to subscribe to my channel here for loads of new videos about gardening and plants!
Is the next part out yet?
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!!
Thanks for such a great and detailed tip, I'll have a look into that!
Wow!!!! This is very interesting!!!! We too eat onions with just about everything. We have a friend who told us he is allergic to onions....I was like...HOW???? I had never heard of anyone be allergic to onions!!!! How do you cook without onions?????? They do not eat with us...we eat out with them...hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!! But I LOVE the ONION WATER idea!!!!!
I have half of a red onion thriving in the darkness of my crisper drawer. I’ve left it there as a bit of an experiment. Time to split it up and plant it in my garden.
It’s always impressive how resilient they are. They look good when they flower if nothing else!
Interesting and nice to learn the skills.
Great I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Great video.. I’m giving it a go myself.. by the way, if you use narrow jars like the ones with herbs and spices you can just sit the onion base on the top without having to use the sticks to suspend it
That's such a good idea, now that I think about it, I don't even know why I used such a big jar!
Great idea😃👌🏾 I'm actually in the process of growing like he did but I have some empty seasoning jars. Imma transfer to that😉👉🏾
Thank you. Now I can grow my own onion.
Dear friend nice share tips to grow Onion from scraps 💖
Hi Asim, thanks for that!
I have an onion end that I'm going to put in water today!!!! Thank you for sharing this! I've wondered if they will grow if you just stick them in the soil, but I guess its better to go with the water first and then soil!!!!
That's great I'm glad it inspired you to try it. I think it could possibly work, the only problem would be if it rots or dries out before the roots establish. A full onion definitely would, it's just a big bulb after all, but not having the full skin for protection might cause problems. Maybe I'll give it a go in the future!
Thank u I am going to try this 👍🏻
Great I hope it worked!
You can do this with the bottom/base of your celery and romaine too. They grow like crazy!!
Looking forward to seeing this grow great vid. Hows them pumpkins doing?
Really well! I've just filmed those this afternoon for the next update, the mini ones are great!
@@GrowIt that's great they was looking well last time well on track. looking forward to it :)
top idea thank
Great info. Thanks!
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
How do u keep the vegetable fro rotting and keeping the maggots out?? I tried growing a broccoli shooting and it rotted and Flys layed maggots ugh 😑
As long as the plant is alive it won’t rot, so as long as you grow roots before planting like with the onion it will be fine. Unfortunately broccoli is the flower of the plant and it’s a lot more difficult to try and grow as it doesn’t have the parts needed to regrow already there.
@@GrowIt ooh I see. Thanks!
Use the bottom of your celery or romaine!
Sooo where does the onion bulbs come from? Through the roots? or you have to cut the green top when it grows and plant that to grow the onions?
I’ve started about a dozen onions this way but none of them have developed bulbs, even 6 months on. Rich green stalks and extensive roots but no bulbs. Any comments or suggestions here?
They did grow bulbs the next year but not as big as normal ones. It’s handy for getting loads of seeds at least!
Hey great video. Is there any updated video? I can’t seem to find it
Im glad you liked it! The updates were in other update videos but there’s an 18 month update here: ua-cam.com/video/7-AgjQ0ljLM/v-deo.htmlsi=sYMfTrlzJsYIOHxL I’m going to put them all in one video in the next week or so.
Thank you so much for replying. My son and I did the onion earlier so curious to see how yours got on 🎉
How did the onion turn out? I have a onion that’s going on it’s own and wondered if I could cut down into sections since it’s a large onion
Hi Tina, it's still going! It's just started growing again now after winter. It looks like it's growing three or four plants so I'm considering splitting it, but I might grow another one to test that incase it doesnt work. You could definitely try cutting it into sections as long as each part has roots and a stem it should work.
Hi i
am starting to learn gardening i want to do it indoors with either kratky or hydroponics what brand seeds do you recommend i have loads from wilko . Thank you 😊
Wilko seeds will be fine! I use their lettuce seeds for hydroponics.
I don't see an update video for this on your channel. Did it work?
Hi yes it did, there's updates on my plot tour videos for April and May this year, if you'd like to see it.
Everyone needs to know that this isnt how to get onions...its how you get onion seeds. Then you plant the seeds and will get onions
What did you do after this video, you had mentioned transplanting and feeding it. Is there a video about that bit?
Hi it's still going and i've fed it a couple of times. It hasn't grown as big as regular onions would and it's starting to flower, but it's growing well. You can see the updates for it in my April tour video and the May one going up later today.
Interesting.
Thanks Malachai!
What do you mean wait a few weeks to feed it? Feed it what?
After it’s started to grow after a few weeks it helps to start feeding it with a general plant food every now and then, it didn’t need a lot.
Awesome I hope it works 🌻🙏
Can you grow this indoors
Yes it works well indoors as long as it gets enough light!
@@GrowIt thx
Hi, did you do an update to this video?
Hi yes the most recent update is during this video:
ua-cam.com/video/kl34R9xSCms/v-deo.html
The onion flowers are starting to open at the moment, but i'll possibly fit in another dedicated video over the next couple of weeks.
do you keep them in the greenhouse?
Hi James yes I keep them in over winter and they go back out at the end of April. I’m sure they would be fine but I just panic!
I want to see full onion plant
Me too, I can't wait!
can we get onion in this method?
Hello it definitely works if you’re patient! I have a new update soon after 2 years of growing.
Better to let the plant flower and then use the seeds to make new onion plants. You'll get full size onions in a few months instead of years
Part 2?
Update?
Hi it's dormant at the moment over winter so I'll be repotting it ready for it to start growing as it warms up, but it's still going! I'll definitely be doing an update on it in a couple of weeks!
@@GrowIt thanks! Looking forward to the update 😊
Update me with result!
Fake don't waste your time !
I mean I have made multiple update and progress videos of this onion plant that would suggest otherwise. You can literally find out how it works in this video, but don’t let facts get in the way!
This method creates second year onions.
Those generally set seed.
The correct thing to do then is to collect the seeds and plant them.
That’s correct, this is exactly what I did!