Onions Growing Slow? Common Causes and Fixes
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Are your onions growing slower than normal this year? Here's why and some things you can do about it!
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My onions are tiny, and I’m growing a successful variety for my part of 10a FL. I’ve been chalking it up to 3 weeks of much colder than normal temps.
Zone 9a, Texas here. We have Chianti, DP Sweet, and White Phantom grown from seed from LDF. Transplanted in mid November. Plants are BIG, 7-9 leaves already. We had a warm November through mid-December, but similar cold the last 6 weeks. We got down to 17F 10 days ago. Happy to share images and other data if interested.
First year trying all 5 of the varieties offered on his site. Central TX. I am trying to follow where I can with his plan. Seems to match pretty good with my area. My phantoms are ok. Didn’t have really good luck with germination with one but my DP Sweet, Chianti and Georgia Boy are doing so good. Many are so round at the base I thought they were bulbing a month ago! 😂😂 pretty excited! Best of luck!
Love your show! Got my Walla Walla going from seed Hope they do good when the weather turns warmer Colorado.
My Egyptian walking onions I got from you are doing phenomenal
I grow walking onions, welsh onions, and yellow potato onions, and if I had to pick just one, it would be the welsh onions. They produce so many more onions than I will eat and put on new growth pretty much any time the temperature is above freezing, though they're slow in the winter. My walking onions look about like Travis's right now, even though they were divided in the fall, suggesting his explanation for crowding instead of cold cold might be suspect. I am in a colder winter climate, though.
You taught me everything I know about growing onions. I live east of Atlanta in zone 8B and I plant my DP Sweet transplants the first week of November and have great success. The only thing I do differently is I fertilize every three weeks with ammonium sulfate. Always enjoy your videos and advice!
I furrow each side deep and load each side with 10-10-10, back fill (slightly), and plant the sets on the hill. Keep watered well and lay on more fertilizer after two weeks and every three after.
My onions in Cent FL. 10a are stuck between a dime and a quarter size stalk. They were feed every 2 weeks with high nitro and then sulfate in the last 2 months. They need to get the hell outa here so i can plant other stuff. We had a colder than usual Jan but everything else was the same. My garlic seems to be suspended as well and that may mean that the cold put a delay on development for my wintering crops.
My walking onions and other onions are huge.
I LOVE this sport!!!!
Love your videos as well as your analysis of issues and possible solutions in your garden.
I grow Patterson and Redwing (long day) onions for their ability to store for long periods. And I don't like those huge, 3 pound bulbs, which I get too frequently. Sometimes, smaller is better.
I got transplants from dixondale farms this year. Been in the ground ~2 weeks and putting on new growth now. Will hit with some nitrogen next week to try and kick them into gear.
Plan to try my hand at starting from seed next year. Been traveling too much for work to do it in time this year.
I was thinking weather, too.
cool video. Thanks!
Jeff from East Tennessee. I have 2 of the same kind of short day onions as you have grown. I know one of them is DP Sweet. I have 3 short rows. The cold was endless!! Many days with highs in the low 20’s!! Nights in the teens. The lowest was 8 degrees. And yes some of these onions died. But only a few here and there!! They do look ruff and a lot of die back. But I do see new green shoots coming out. They have started growing again. Onions are tuff and I am going to baby them along and see what happens.
I am also growing intermediate day onions. They are in trays and looking great. Will plant them in March! One of the verity is Candy onion!! They will grow until June!!
I’m going to have the best onions I’ve ever grown this year I think. I’m in zone 10 b Southwest Florida and I think it’s cuz we’ve finally had some cold weather!
I have 2 rows of timone onions I started from seeds. They are doing really good since the snow. They look better then the starts I got from hoss but they are looking better since the snow. First time doing onions from seeds. Hoping it works out OK
My onions bit the dust. But i will try again here soon. Could you hit the onions with some 20-0-0.
Don't worry, I grow garlic. Plant in early Nov, they look like green onions from the store until May. In 30 days they bulb up and get fat. It all happens so fast. You are going to be good.
I have the exact same issue with my Bulbing onions. Followed the same fertilizing schedule that I've always done (Blood Meal) I broke down and hit them with a very light dose of Ammonium Sulfate two weeks ago and again today. They have greened up but no real change in size. I am located just south of Augusta Ga.
never had problems with onions. garlic on the other hand, i've had completely stagnate and refuse to grow in spring.
I planted 1015’s back in November and they’re not growing much at all. They’re green but that’s about it. I’m in zone 8b, Texas
My onions grew a fair size, some were shallots and the other were Alisha Craig but the texture was dry so when we pickled them the outer skins were not crunchy. Don't know why it how to fix that. Any suggestions would be appreciated.❤😊🇨🇦🙏👍
I didn't even start mine until after all the cold in 9b. I'm not expecting much. I used onion sets from Walmart.
My onions are just starting to grow like they should have if not for the colder weather. I think next yr I'll be putting mine in October so maybe they are much bigger before the cold weather gets here, zone 9A
My onions took a beating because of the low temperatures! I hope mine grow out of their funk! Mine seem to be showing little growth
If you had the foresight of the cold weather for this season, what would you have done differently for your onions?
According to the data I checked, your winter isn't really much different than last year, though I didn't use "freezing days". Using the DawgU degree day calculator for the date range Nov 15-Feb 6, Moultrie station, base temperature of 55 degrees, the result gives 197 for 2024-2025 and 205 for 2023-2024. Both of those are lower than the two prior year periods, but at least by this metric you should be in about the same place you were last year. If the freezing isn't causing actual leaf damage then this may be a better metric.
My onions will be going out in a few weeks, but they're intermediate day onions so really a very different situation.
Low soil temps for sure. Everything is slow this year in zone 9a.
Row covers. Bump up that temp 5-10 °F with one or two covers. .
Nematodes?