How To Grow An Onion From An Onion Bottom! (2019)
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Regrow your own onion bottoms! In this video, I show you and prove to myself that you can grow a new onion bulb simply by cutting off the inch at the base of a regular onion bulb (root end) and sticking it either in water, or directly into moist soil.
Most people know about this trick with green onions and leeks, but to be able to do this from just a regular onion bulb? That's a game changer! No more seeds or onion sets for this guy!
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I just put the onion basal in the potting soil with the onion paper. It grew.
@@shawngabriel7397 easy peasy!
Just cut my onions and put them in the water. Pretty emotional experience. Brought a tear to my eye.
Ha ha I see what you did there.... ;-)
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@@staceygg1 😆
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You must be depressed
Who's watching during the pandemic learning how to sprout onions such fun
Just magic !!!!
Yeah, started recently too. Never did any farming before this, always has been my dad's thing and now I have way more stuff than him.
Brought different seeds for veg and Herb’s and will start planting this weekend and May. Hopefully if the new potatoes start sprouting these will go into buckets. 🤞🏻
@@stevewoodrow2011 Nice Steve! Bucket gardening is the best! Try Beets...and if your buckets are tall enough, Carrots! 🌱🎋🍈🍆🌶🍓
@Hair Razor Detox They are getting hard to find...I wonder why that is?
I'm glad we have a channel like this because of the worsening food shortages. Thank you.
Yup! And when the grid goes down ...you're stuck with what you got!
The wife said one day..."you know we can either mow the back yard or we can eat it"!! So, we dug up our back yard (3 gardens). I am picking cabbage, green beans, beats, tomatoes, green peppers, al hot peppers imaginable and canning most. If you have the room.....plant it. We are done with moldmart. Often I eat breakfast while watering, just grazing along.
..Plus people haven't had their hands & fingers all over the vegetables! I Love That part too!😉☺
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@@houndjog I don't want to be without onions!
I forgot to mention that when I cut down to the core of the onion I usually find two or three center shoots, like you see coming up on your videos, which I very gently separeate by cutting straight down between them with a thin paring knife, being sure to include a piece of the root end on each piece. Once separated, I put each piece in the water as a separate onion. Therefore, instead of one onion with several stalks fighting for growing space, you'll have three onions developing their own root systems, adding to their growth potential to become a bigger, individual onion instead of three trying to grow on one root system and crowding each other out. Another thing I learned by trial and error!❤
Yes, definitely have to separate.... Onions need their space!
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I NEED a Video for that!!🤗👍👍🧅🧅
@@HISIAM888RUHIS888 Definitely! Agreed.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms howling does it take to mature
@@marykandasammy2700 same as an onion from a set.... Around 3-4 months
Who else is here researching how to become self sufficient .... because the way 2020 is looking .....
Definitely Debra-Ann....and it only seems to be getting crazier and crazier.
I’ve decided to grow most every vegetable that I love to eat.
Everything that's happened is a blessing if the result is more people wanting self-sufficiency. It's the only way you can have fresh food that's not poisoned with pesticides. It's the only way we can make the corrupt oligarchies obsolete :)
@@TheRealHonestInquiry it truly is the one good thing that's going to come from all of this...!
Hey, search Self Sufficient Me. He is a gardener that makes videos about becoming self sufficient.
The trick is to change the water more often. That way the roots grow much bigger and stronger before planting them in soil. It is also important to keep the top of the onion as dry as you can, otherwise it will start to rot.
Exactly. Not like Green Onions where you can just leave them to grow. Gotta change the water daily on these ones.
Thanks for the tip😊
@@brimonkmonk8212 cheers!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I really like your channel so far you make it seem so simple and it's easy to understand 😺 Looking forward to more🍍🍓
So this is what I have been doing wrong the entire time. I left the onions for 5 days checking the progress daily and unfortunately it didn’t grow a single root.. so now I’m gonna do it again, make sure the top part is dry and change water daily..
After I started my garden, I noticed how much land is just dried out and overgrown with weeds. I can't help but think about the massive amount of food that could be grown and traded with their neighbors or sold at farmer's markets.
Without question Brian! It's astonishing really. One garden at a time man.... One garden at a time.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms did they grow into full bulb onions? If so I'm going to start today.
Thing called gorilla growing I plant fruit bushes on remote public
I like you thinking. May GOD bless the works of your hands.
@@attitudeadjusted9027no all I see is green onion shoots been growing this for 2 months
I've been doing this for years for our constant supply of leeks/onions as well as garlic pods in our restaurant. Thanks for showing this.
Did you treat the garlic the same way?
How do you regrow garlic?
@@crossingtheline4372 each garlic clove, don’t peel the individual garlic clove, put it in water and it’ll grow!
@@Andrew-gx7xudid not know, thx
@@crossingtheline4372 Regrowing garlic is easy: buy a bulb that you like, split it into cloves (leave skin on) and NO NOT in the water! but end of fall put them directly 10cm. into the soil, point up bottom down. Cover with straw or mulch. Let them freeze over. Next spring leaves come up. You can use some leaves for salads and soups etc. End of summer the leaves turn yellow/brown and fall over. At that point the garlic is ready to harvest. 'You' have turned each clove into a bulb! Use fresh or dry. I haven't bought garlic in years, just like onions, tomatoes, peppers etc. everything is re-growable after buying once. More people should do that.
I've done this for years. However, before placing in water, I quarter mine. They grow just as well, and instead of 1 onion I'll have 4. This can also be applied to potato eyes, celery, carrots, etc.
Nice Matt, thanks for the tips!
Hey Matt soooo i wound up throwing some whole onions into the garden that started to rot and they’ve sprouted a ton but I left them whole 😩 can I pick them up and quarter them and then replant? Also, when do you know they are ready?
I don't think carrots will regrow actually carrots. Only the tops will regrow. Perhaps you can get seeds then. Then start the process from seeds.
What is the best water to use? Tap, distilled, dechlorinated? I'm brand new and could use some help :) thanks
@@sarahmiranda7527 that's a good question. . .It's going to depend on how far along they are. If the onion has rotted away, and left a cluster of sprouts, you could try to separate them. Make sure each one you break off has a bit of root system to go with it, n they should be fine. Onions and potatoes are two of the easiest to reuse/regrow.
Think of the things we throw out that are useful. “Waste not want not.” We may need this knowledge in coming days.
You're so right Karin! This became highly apparent to me when a lot of the big seed houses weren't selling retail anymore. Its April and they aren't selling seeds? The ONE month that's probably their biggest money maker? Not good. Hey, thanks for watching, stay safe.
That's for sure.
Do celery the same way. Start several & try planting some in good soil. Water well, but don't drown the planted ones.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms govt told them they couldn't, but not sure of the reasoning behind closing plant nursery & seed stores. Feed stores & some grocery stores can still sell.
@@fourdayhomestead2839 just makes me want to grow more and take more control over my own food supply!
We go through so many onions that I easily spend $30 a month on onions alone so this season I decided to grow my own LOL and bell peppers!
What do you do with your onions? Lol
@@_a_v_j cook them up, slice n' dice them lol then I start growing more with the root bases.
You love to eat onion? I love to eat onion as well😂
@@felixchen9939 When I was pregnant it was the only thing I could keep down for the 1st 6 months of pregnancy. Morning sickness sucked.
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Well here we are in 2021 and I am growing anything I can in my condo windows! Not much different from 2020 only More frustrating!! This is the best gardening channel at least for me! Straight up sensible advice and most encouraging! I await new ideas! Thank you for your incite and enthusiasm!!
Thanks so much Ali!! Very kind of you to day. :-)
As I'm sure you're well aware of by now, There's no better teacher than trial & error due to unique circumstances.
The reason the onions decayed so fast on top was because of the water level being too high or the container being too wide. The top of the onion shouldn't sit in water at all. Just the root ball should be touching the water. Hope that helps.😁
Thank you🙃
Yes I second to that I did it the woman and and hubby did it the man way guess which one rotted. His 🤣
namefirst namelast LoL 😝
Thank you. I was wondering what was wrong. Now I can try again, hoping for success. Nonetheless, it is fun learning to be self-sufficient indeed.
Cool.
Since I like to experiment and also simplify things, with the onions I took a shortcut and chose the direct approach: I took a flower pot, filled it with soil, put the onion in there (the root part, of course) and gave it a try. The result was quite interesting: after 1 week the shoot had grown about 7 cm. After that the growth process was fairly normal. Apparently within the first week the onion thought she had to grow like crazy. My conclusion: onion growing is pretty effortless. By the way, same goes for potatoes. And just to be clear: I grow all my stuff indoors.
Aurelian Freeman did you cover your onions with soil afterwards or just leave the top flesh exposed? 🙏
@@littlebird3495 he says in the video to cover it with soil, but not the shoots.
Aurelian, how often do you water it? And how wet do you keep the pot dirt? I’m growing indoor too
@@AfraidMonsters haha...watering..good question. Once the product is in the pot, I give it a good watering (until water comes out on the bottom), then...meanwhile I put a plastic bag over it, tight it with some elastic band (this way the moisture practically never ends), then wait for them to grow. I have planted some olives this way and only watered them only once in the beginning (like 4 months ago) and they grow wonderfully in that plastic bag environment (it`s like jungle weather in there). Of course, it depends on the fruit/vegetable that you want to grow. But if it`s a hot climate one, then the "bag over head" system is very practical, easy to use, and the cheapest there is.
@@aurelianfreeman1800 yeah that makes sense. I had an onion in a plastic baggie in the fridge and days later I go to it for cooking use again, and it was very moist and wet in there, roots grown on the onion, even a bit of growth on the top part too
Thanks dear, I will not throw away my bottom onions again. I will strat a backyard garden right away, and no buying of onions.. I can save some money for the future. Thanks once again for this educative video.
I love when I find someone like you who explains well and isn't all hyper and fake and/or trying to impress me with useless information.
God bless you!
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Thank you so much! Really appreciate the support! :-)
Thought exactly the same thing!
Onions will sprout by doing this, but onions are a biennial plant. First year the onion produces a bulb the second year the plant produces seeds. During the first year the plant develops a bulb and harvest the bulb at full maturity. Then the next spring plant the bulb like described here it will send up a a flower stalk and produce seeds. Onions flowers are pretty cool and the bees love them. No reason you couldn’t save the seeds and grow them next season. The shapes and sizes may be variable but that can be interesting.
Onion flowers are beautiful! Lots of people just grow them as ornamental plants.
If you just plant an onion like this and do nothing, would it come back every year?
Thank you, I was looking for this info on when they produce seed!
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Channels like this are VERY IMPORTANT for the times we are in and the near future. We need to be self reliant when it comes to food. 👍🏽
Thanks Denise, I totally agree! Cheers and have a great growing season!
I’m planting avacado trees on my deck and ginger in the side yd...smile
Yes you are right,but I always thought about that and have been gardening for a while now.You never know what can happen .If this crisis is over then what would could happen next,who knows but be prepared.
@@porkfied so true. For me myself, I've been gardening my whole life... But it only really started to resonate past enjoyment to become importance when I learned about modern agriculture as a business and how its built on money and not actual health. After that, it was game on for me!
The Ripe Tomato Farms You might want to watch the documentary VANISHING OF THE BEES. It confirms what you just said. They are killing us.
www.vanishingbees.com/
I just ran across your channel today and can't stop watching! I LOVE your fresh approach and vast knowledge of gardening. I learned everything I know about gardening for the last 40 years through experiments and trial and error, pre-UA-cam age! I'm always amazed when I receive confirmation from experts like yourself that I did most of it right. Thank you so much for such an interesting and entertaining channel!❤
Thanks so much Vanessa! I think experimenting is my favorite part of gardening (other than harvesting!)... Just testing out theories, finding better ways to do things, etc etc! Thanks for watching and happy growing to you!
You're the BEST!! The way you talk and how calmlyn you talk fabulous! I have a brain lesion in the base of my brain and my memory and cognitive is just not usually very good and I end up having to watch videos over and over and over again! But you are so calming to my brain and clear and concise, I just super appreciate all of your knowledge and the time you take to teach us all of this! Thank you so much! This is my first garden ever and you and another great gardener on UA-cam on have taught me so much! 🙏💗
Hey, thanks for that, Means a lot. Glad to help and happy that the videos can bring value. Excited to hear how the ups and downs of your first garden go this year! :-)
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms thank you so much!! I'm so excited but nervous at same time! Started with seeds I got a growing light and everything and I thought I wasn't doing good and today all of the sudden they look much better and are growing second leaves! I don't know how you retain all of this knowledge! I thought gardening was easy throwing seeds and they grow and there is so much more to it! I actually have a question if I bought some plants from the nursery am I supposed to be feeding them only liquid fertilizer or can I use the bag of fertilizer that I bought? And am I supposed to be feed or fertilize the seedlings? Let me know if I don't make sense! If I ask too many questions just don't mind me I'm so sorry LOL
@@GirlMomma No problem at all! With seedlings, you really don't want to fertilize them until they have 2nd and 3rd sets of leaves. Liquid is the easiest because you can apply it the next time you water. With granular, it needs to be mixed into the soil. So you can either put it on top, mix it in a little... Or wait until you replant and mix it in with your new soil mixture.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms oh okay! Thank you! So I'm curious when I can move them outside is it when they grow their second leave? I'm sure you've taught me before, I'll go look for a video of it but I just wanted to plant today. 🤗
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms okay actually just one last important question... You can ignore the rest I don't want to be bombarding you LOL because I'm going to go to Lowe's right now and just get liquid, do you have a certain liquid fertilizer that you recommend?
With quarantine I have learned to look at life with more calm, look at me, sitting here in front of this jar, watching the onion top I put in there grow, it's been two hours and I think I saw the roots move already. I figure that by the time this quarantine is over I'll be able to cut a slice of my grown onion and put it on my hamburger. Anyone knows how to make cheese at home, I like cheese on my hamburger.
Ha ha ha, I can safely say I've never watched these guys long enough to see roots growing! Well played Carlos!
Carlos Torres Freakin hilarious 🤣 😂
Love it! Make some Mozzarella, really easy. I think other like American take longer and you need to buy to much stuff to make. Not an expert at all but we are making some of the Mozzarella. Good family project. Now I will plant some onions. Tomatoes can't go in the ground yet. How do you plant your 🍔 LOL!
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Quarintine over?!?! Bahahaha
I don't put the green onion bulbs in water. I just put them straight in to the soil, and they take off right away. My dad taught me that more than 40 years ago.
I've never had a green onion bulb that didn't grow.
I just stumbled on to your channel.
I love what I saw.
I've subscribed. Great video
Does it actually produce another onion though, or just the greens? I'm definitely going to try this!
I put everything in the compost and this year, I found one old bottom that was on a tiny bit of dirt on my brick pavers.
I lifted it and put it into the garden. looking really good right now.
Erika Smith if you are talking about the spring onions then it will keep making the greens which is all you need anyways pre much. As for the normal brown round onions I don’t know if it makes new onions or not and I would also like to know if anyone has done it before and gotten some onions out of it. I have tried it before but sadly I got no onions but they died off due to the weather, I planted at the wrong time of year I think. So I’m going to just throw some in a pot now and see how it goes and even if it goes to seed then we should be able to use the seeds to grow more onion plants 🤔 but I’m not a pro gardener so I don’t know 🤷♀️
@@NMW80 : I cut the bottom of by brown onions, the root, with the beard.
then put that into water and in a few days, there are new white roots.
if you take a store bought brown onion, cut the bottom off and laid it in dirt, it would root, and sprout.
however, there are usually 3 new growths.
it is proper to peal away the layers of the main onion until you expose the full rounds of the new sprouts.
be careful to not disturb the root.
once you exposed the new sprouts, use a knife and separate them, leave some root on each one.
then plant them. not too deep.
early as you can. each leaf that grows will result in one ring of the onion.
let them grow till the leaves turn brown, then harvest.
if you have a mind to make a go of this, in the early spring, the first days you got out without a jacket, buy a bag of onions.
cut off the bottoms, make onion soup and an onion casserole. then start to get those roots to sprout and plant your crop.
I've been doing this for years. Jyst shove it in the soil and keep it damp. I have pots ready on the windowsill. In a month or so you have big fat onion leaves to snip off with scissors for salads soups and things that you mix with mayo. You can also do this with spring onions, leeks, cabbage stalks (you might get some pretty yellow edible flowers) lettuce stumps and the bottom of celery. Sometimes it diesnt workant it just rots but mainly it does. And remember growing carrot leaves from a carrot top as a kid? You can eat those too.
You can also plant the seeds of chillies and sweet pepper? (Capsicum) but dont eat the leaves. Wait till they grow and use the fruit. Tomato plants too. Just put slices of tomato in compost
1 -23 minutes into this clip is so cute! Love your facial expressions in getting the branches out of your way. But serously I'm so glad I browsed to your site. Thank you so much:)
Thanks so much for the support Connie! Super appreciated! :-)
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!!
So awesome, thanks for sharing! Gotta try that!. Probably decent at pest control as well.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge I'm going to try planting onions like that year round
I wish I could have learned farming or grew having experience of these farming ideas. It took me a long time and a realization on how important and how amazing it is to grow your own farm and sustain the needs of your family. I'm still 19 years and I'm taking an interest in farming. I hope I'll grow and maybe have an amazing farm o my own someday. I hope all of you guys who are challenged by these times may have confidence and courage to face it. God bless everyone.
At 19, you still have a whole WORLD of gardening ahead of you! Cheers, and stay safe!
You have time start with pots or cut out empty water bottles
I'm 12 and I already have a small onion farm. I just plant the whole onion and now most of them are already blooming
What a nice young man...
@@pakkacae4830 Cool! In what sort of climate do you live?
My weakness, plants growing in time lapse it makes me very relaxed.
Its the best thing ever....I watch soooo many of those videos, lol!
This is amazing to know I have been wondering how to grow onions from the store and here it is! It makes sense to replant the seedlings as soon as they are sprouting roots to prevent mold!
Definitely Marcus...It just works!
I did mine for about a week and the roots grew crazy fast. Now that it’s in soil it’s amazing to watch the green shoots grow. I’m excited.
So awesome Danielle! Can't wait to see your final results!
What was the last result.. Can you share about it?
Holy crap I'll have free onions for the rest of my life! Thank you!!!!!
They should teach this in school instead of just growing a seed.
Ha ha I agree Jeanette... But any gardening taught in school is a good thing in my opinion!
I agree, I’m currently in school and they’ve only mentioned seeds up until this year. And the only reason I know there are other ways is from Biology class where we learned about vegetative propagation. We were supposed to do a lab testing this out but quarantine beat us to it.
As a homeschooler, we will definitely be adding all this to our biology work! 😄💖
they would be accused of some legal patent issue
@@analarson2920 has! Unfortunately.... Probably true
watching this to practice sustainable living but cant help but think the way you treat them sir, this so wholesome. thank you so much for your purity 🥰
I have been doing the green onions since I watched this year's ago. I love it!!! Such a joy watching them grow
Skip the cups of water for the scallions too and just plant directly into the soil. Same can be done with garlic cloves, celery, romaine lettuce, etc... It's actually fun to regrow stuff I get from the produce stand. Sweet potatoes make a beautiful, ornamental vine. Cucumbers are also pretty to grow. Just be sure to get organic produce and you'll have a good success rate with regrowing your veggies. Happy planting and my your thumb always be green!
Yes we used to grow ornamental sw potato vines when I was a kid in the 50s and 60s. But they are toxic to cats, dogs, birds, possibly babies and toddlers so keep that in mind when deciding where to put them. Also true of many plants. Research.
Sweet potato leaves are totally delicious and can be eaten. They're mild and don't taste a thing like a sweet potato. I stir fry them in a little oil and garlic. White potato leaves are poisonous.
@@nevaehlumiere8019 Toxic to animals and possibly toddlers.
Hiw do you regrow cukes?
We'd eat the sweet potato leaves, stir-fried with chopped garlic, chopped red chilli, light soya sauce. If you're growing the sweet potato for the tuber, then don't pick all the leaves from one vine, as that will deplete that vine of growing the sweet potatoes. Just pick a few leaves from each vine. You need quite a few vines, though, to get enough for one portion...
after watching this i will never throw that part of the onion, thank you for this wonderful tips
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Try it with celery also.
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thank you for tomatoes if they have red spider what do i spray to kill the spider
Maria Rama ikr! I feel like I’ve wasted so much now!
Wow! That’s a great idea to grow new onion bulbs from onion buttoms, no need to buy onions again! I love this ❤️👍
Definitely Thelma! Works with Leeks and Green Onions too!
Great video. Can't wait to try it. I used the same method with the onion relative leek. I put it in soil after about a week and the stem is growing like crazy! 💗
What i did i just placed it directly in the soil. After few days only you will able to see the root. Now i have a lot of onion in my terrace. Im amazed how easy to plant it!
I've also accidentally grown onion roots in plastic bags in my fridge when I've forgotten about them.
Lol! Same here.
That's what i did. I cut the top off, left it in the bag, and a few days later saw it was growing, so I planted it 😊 that was several weeks back. Its growing great so far.
@@Loosesapphire5135 have you harvested anything so far?
@@mlhaynes7 Mark isn't responding. Maybe he's busy making caramelized onions + kale pasta
@@mlhaynes7 it wont grow leaves unless he transplant in to soil
I liked your style. Plain & simple directions without useless wandering talk. 😊
Hey thanks! And this is an OLD video too.....I've hopefully got even better at keeping it simple! Cheers!
Thrilled to watch a fellow Saskatchewan Roughrider fan teaching my other favorite thing-gardening! Thanks to this channel, I’m propagating so many things this year!
You know of course that when you have multiple stems sprouting from one onion you can slice straight down between two stems and plant TWO new onions!
Definitely. I think you almost have to. I never have success when they multi crown like that! Live and learn Bea! Thank you my friend for stopping by.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Once you have roots, trim the excess outside bits so they don't rot then plant, You can grow into a bulb I've done it a few times though they were small like shallots.
@@cavemanjon6952 awesome slow burn.. Sound advice. That extra onion "meat" would definitely rot. Good stuff
Thanks for sharing
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Wow!!! I Never knew this....I've always grown green onion, lettuce and celery like this, but never a regular onion. I love learning new things!!!
Pretty cool eh Deneice?? Give it a try! I'm also doing a 5 part vlog documenting the entire process from cut to harvesting the bulb. Check it out if you get a chance! Cheers!
These videos are timeless, I was still buying onions until I saw this! Thanks so much!
You can do Romane lettuce .I did lettuce, onions, put rooted ends in water and just about three days they were growing roots. You are right about no waiting longer to plant in garden or greenhouse or raised beds. I took seeds from the bell peppers I bought from the grocery store, let them dry. I will transplant soon in my garden.
I think it’s great that you are experimenting at home with store-bought veggies. I’ve tried that with a few vegetables. I tried to see if certain store-bought veggies can regrow. So far the best result I had was with dried black beans, as well as bell pepper seeds. While I was cooking with store-bought bell peppers, I saved the seeds, and ended up placing those seeds into a pot of soil. The seeds did grow into a plant, and after a year of growing the plant started producing its own little bell peppers. I’ve collected a handful of them last year. The problem is that I live in North East Florida, and not that much stuff grows here. I had success with dry black beans. I buried some of the black beans into a pot of soil. The plants came very fast, eventually producing its own black beans. I collected these black beans, and kept them in the house for a while. I just replanted them just a few months ago, and already got good plants growing. I tried experimenting with cantaloupe seeds from a store bought cantaloupe. The seed do turn into plants, and even start to flower, but for the longest time it would not fruit. Finally I got a tiny little cantaloupe growing on one of the plants, but unfortunately it didn’t get large. I think more people need to experiment and learn their local environment and climate, to see what grows or what doesn’t, what comes with each season. The ability to grow your own food is the key to freedom. Self-sufficiency is something we’ve lost along the way when industrialization came. This knowledge of growing your own food takes generations, so the faster we start doing it the faster we learn
Right on Karina, that's awesome! I love experimenting! I do know with seeds it can be a crapshoot though. Not knowing what the parent plants were, seeds from grocery store produce can give you anything, or nothing. Its total luck sometimes. All the best this season, cheers!
Hello Karina......
Crap at the onions I've wasted over the years! Never again; just turned on notifications I need your videos thank you doll.
Thanks for the support!! Hope you have a great growing season this year!
GREAT, when our ice and snow is gone I will give this a try! Thank you from a person that never did any of this before 👍💕
Will the onions grow underneath the ground and push up?
Can you do an update on what they looked like fully harvested?
they dont make a bulb the first year, they throw seed.. 2nd year you will see a bulb
This was great. I’m growing a garden from cutting this year. Onions was on the list and so are potatoes. This video was super helpful. Thank you!!
Right on Sarah, thanks for watching and best of luck this season! You're right, there's a whole world out there of regrowing veggies! The easiest have to be Green Onions: ua-cam.com/video/vrOJ95O7JHg/v-deo.html followed by Leeks: ua-cam.com/video/ywYBm2_a67M/v-deo.html and even Celery!: ua-cam.com/video/TLVE0jS_ug4/v-deo.html
Do u cut potatoes that have an eye and put into water. When do u plant in soil
Cut the onion like you would core out an apple, then peel back the layers from the top,down, until you have a solid uncut bulb. Cut away all excess flesh arond the root clump, leaving no excess flesh that can rot in the water. Should have something that looks like the green onions you buy from the store that is without the green top yet. Should be one solid piece, with base all the way to the pionted top, uncut from a knife, no slices, no wounds. No extra flesh around root ball. Dip old roots in enough honey to barely cover root, thin layer. Then dip the honey covered root ball into cinnamon powder. Lightly covered. Shake off the excess. Put into a shot glass with just enough water to submerge the root. Put in a warm indirect light location. Should have new root forming in 24 to 48 hrs. Let sit for 4 days. Changing the water once. At the 2 day mark. Plant bulb. It will divide into two to five different bulbs off of same root. After they look like they are healthy and taking off, dig whole thing up. Take knife and divide the separate bulbs. Now you started with one onion that was bought from store, used 3/4 of it right off. The other 1/4 planted, and now you have multiple onion plants from that one. Did it a million times and with 100 percent success rate. Also have regenerated, celery, cabbage, lettuce, and cauliflower in a similar fashion with about 60 percent success rate. Hope you enjy the tip. The way you are doing it, your causing bacteria growing on the cut flesh and it is already dead. Thats why onions are in layers. To protect the middle from the elements. Makes sense dont it. The honey and cinnamon are a root stimulant just like rootone. Try it , you will find it works every time. No smelling rotten water, no mold or fungus. Your onions will have root rot and black fungus mold growth in the layers and sure they might get egg size and stop growing and wont be good to eat. Peace brother. Hope you try it.
This is exactly what I was wondering. You can see at 12:43 how their growth was stunted from the slice and the edge part you could've eaten just rots instead of growing. Thanks for sharing super informative.
Geoff Durham hi omg I can’t wait to try this tomorrow. Thank you for the amazing tip. You should make a you tube video yourself. You are very knowledgeable!!! Sending lots of love your way.
Have you tried the same process, but skip the water? Just plant the new bulb straight into the soil?
@@pamkriner5945 no, just put in shot glass with a quarter inch of water, and brush on root only, thin layer of real honey, dip in cinnamon and knock off excess. They usually will sprout new roots in 24 to 48 hrs. Then plant when you are confident that it will take. Im sure you cold do same and keep soil moist, probably get same results.
Can you please specify what you mean by "core out an apple"? I always just cut applies into slices and then cut off the core afterwards.
Thank you for going into so much detail. I'm in zone 8B and I never had success but I'm going to keep trying your method
Do the same thing with celery. Been doing it for years. The-second growth will be thinner but has a stronger flavor, great for soups. The leaves also are stronger great for salads.
I’ve just started doing this with red salad onions and pearly white ones, and planted outside, one has just started to show shoots yay😁
Bravo
That's a good idea,I like it very much, thanks
It’s best to take the cut root end and just place it in a ziplock bag (don’t add water) and leave it in your frig for 2-4 weeks and it’ll grow by itself. Once it gets 3-4” long roots and green sprout tops, it’s time to plant.
Also sounds great. Thank you.
Hi do I lock the ziplock do I put a wet napkin please expand then can I plant it in a jar by water and food
I actually tried just straight into dirt roots down and they are now sprouting but I like all the different methods
Corina Stephenson
I’ve seen that happen many times, even before I started gardening. 👍🏾
@Corina Stephenson does this just grow green onion shoots to use, I can't see its going to grow a real onion bulb again?????
Amen I tried to find the easiest way to explain how to grow an onion. You're absolutely correct.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Was like I won’t need this in 2020 it’ll get better. Now that 2021 is not starting good either I’m growing my own food.
Ugghh....I knowwww......just when you think its going to get better....sigh.
Nice garden! In addition to onions, I also grow celery leaves from store bought celery. I skip the water and grow my onions in soil only. It does work....P. S. It was nice to see a video like this, with all the crazy stuff going on everywhere. Thank you. Stay safe.
Right on, thank you for the nice words! What do you use the celery leaves for? Like a Cilantro substitute? Or do you find the entire stalks grow back as well?
I am actually testing out growing celery from the bottom of store bought organic celery...I hope it works!
The Ripe Tomato Farms Soup! It is soooo flavorful! Lamb, soup, potatoes - absolutely yummy! Cut like cilantro, gentle.
How many onions can we get from a single onion?
Trying to figure out if you can or how you can grow cilantro from the leave stem? Is this possible?
I’ve done this with,
Celery
Onion
Potato
Garlic
Ginger
Avocado seed
Apple seeds
And many herbs. All from supermarket produce 👍🏻
Shady Lady did they work?
Kokiyo o_o
Every single one 👍🏻
The celery is fastest to re shoot and the avocado seed is slowest.
@@Shady.Lady. how big does the avocado plant grow?
Car Bro An avocado grows into a large evergreen tree. Protect trunk when young from sun by wrapping.
I live in winnipeg when would you say is the best time to plant potatoes?
Just discovered your channel starting a veg garden this coming year just don’t know were to start ! I have a huge lawn that this time next year will look very different and give me vegetables for my Family we already have hens ....you are amazing ! I have learned so much ..wow free Garlic green onions and reg bulb onions amazing! ....a new sub
Hi mary, thanks for the kind words!! Congrats on the gardening goals, you're half way there! For just starting out, I would always go raised beds, if you can, if not, look at sheet mulching in rows to start replacing the lawn. Look for veggies that do 2 things.....1) you love to eat them (only grow what you love to eat!) and 2) do well in your area. Learn the plants that do best from direct sowing of seed vs the plants that do best sprouting indoors and then planting outside as transplants. After that, its just fine tuning, getting a working compost pile, and away you go!! :-)
I was glad to find your channel. I am new to gardening. Only planted tomatoes, cucumbers and banana peppers with my grandmother last year before she passed. Using your experience and pots with my grandkids this year. Thank you
I am so sorry for your loss ❤😢
And boil any clean, pretty, non-mildewed onion skins for a tea to add to soups, recipes or to drink! It gives us silica for happy mood, and for healthier hair, skin & nails.
Also makes chicken soup look great with an added nutty flavor dimension 👍
I save onion skins starting a month or so before Easter--they make a natural dye for Easter eggs (f you celebrate that way). Color is not what you'd expect: red onions dye the eggs blue, for instance--look online for guidance.
I like the happy mood!
I save mine in the freezer for making amazing stock and bone broth later.
this is so interesting! thank you for this :) I also love how you set out the video so it's clear what we should look out for on different days 😊
Very good teacher you explain slow and straight to the point. I love your videos.
Fantastic video. Clear, concise and straight to the point of the purpose of the video, unlike a lot of other youtube educational videos that just ramble on and on before getting to the point. I also like how u kept going back after so many days and showed us the results. Have a couple of brown onions i was about to throw out until i thought about whether i could regrow them and came across your video. Will give this a go. Thanks
This makes me so happy lol. I want to be a plant mom.🤣
Ha ha, Melissa.....you can be! :-)
I'm a coffee dad. I have 5 arabica coffee trees I bought from seedlings on my kitchen table. Almost half a year later, they're about 4"-6" tall now. One day I'll roast harvest, roast grind and make coffee from my own kitchen.
Hello Melissa......
I am a novice so would like to have seen a picture of the end result. Still a good video
The end result will produce seeds to plant. Onions are much more complicated than this. They need to be planed early spring to develop a bulb. Also you need to learn about short and long day onions
awesome... mine grew on the counter top of my sink on accident and I realized they can grow but you did it to where I can figure out the process thanks. I like your garden too!
Right on Andy! Did you use a white, yellow, or purple onion?
Growing the onion from the root end is great, as most people cut their onions that way. Hey I don't do that. I cut into the sweet onion in 4 places around top to bottom not to cut into the root. Peal the onion away. ( use it as you want.) That leaves the center as as big onion set root to top. I plant it straight into my garden. It grows as onions do. I let them go to seed for more onions. Then sometimes I get another sweet onion.
I don't use the water glass method.
Living at 7800' in N.M. with a short growing season. It has taken me 4 years to figure out how to grow here. I am going to try the onions for sure. Thanks for the lesson.
Right on John. I hear you on the struggles of a short warm season. I would skip direct seeding of everything except maybe carrots and beets! Starter plants all around! Cheers man, best of luck to you.
Been doing this for years, if you have a compost pile, all you need to do is plant the root end in the pile. When the top comes up transplant it. I call it volunteer farming. I have had some years where most of my garden plants came from my compost pile. I should let you all know I live in Ms and the climate is mild
I'm so thankful to have found you on here! I'm new to gardening and I love your videos. Thank you!
Hey C, thanks for stopping by! :-)
I enjoy your videos. I planted peanuts from organic UN salted store bought peanuts by rooting them in wet paper towels for a week. They are flowering now. I'm not sure if I'll get peanuts or not but it was worth a try. I buddied them with bush pickles in a large deep pot. Time will tell the story.
I love the visual effect for newbies. Thank you.
I love that he included the bit of fiddling with the branches at the beginning. Makes me think of Kev from Shameless XD
Mmmm... Cupcakes....
How awesome is this ??? Tried growing in my windowsill, celery - successful ! Can’t wait to do it in the garden this summer ! Have chives growing too , never knew I could do regular onions 🧅! Excited to try - we really go through onions here . Very happy - new subscriber THANK YOU !
Hello Rosa......
I really like your style. I feel like we are discovering together. I'm relatively new to gardening and am currently growing herbs indoors. It's been going really well so far and videos like this are really helpful. I watched another video where a lady did the same thing with three romaine lettuce hearts. I want to get to the point where I can skip the store for stuff I can grow myself. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed.
Right on man! Thank you for the kind words, hope you have all the success this season growing your own source of food!
This is very good information
I really look forward to have an onion garden thanks for this video sir.
Because of you, I've not needed to buy green onions in ages. I planted them with my chives (after letting them root in the water). I am very excited to try this with my regular onions! You are such a marvel to explain this to laypersons like myself. Thank you.
It's been a minute since my comment but wanted to tell you I am now ready to try to grow bulb onions [from the organic ones I just got from the store!] I'll be back to tell you how it went! [My last attempt was user failure.]
This will be a project for my 2 grandsons, 8 & 12. Thank you for showing us how.
Now I won’t be bored in South African lock down
Pity you can't grow biltong like this!
love this approach: "woops, little bit messy, but that's all right" -- and nice sharp knife too
Ha ha thanks for watching!
Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you!!! I been wondering about companion planting onions with tomatoes and how to do it! This is awesome
I have my first one going! I’ve done it with celery and now SO excited it works with onions!
I love your show. It is simple. I can learn complex myself by doing it. I have to learn simple first. You don't know how gifted you are. Not many people can still remember what people need to know in the beginning . Your teaching style teaches me without being to fast. You show all the steps. You are not condescending. Thank you. Today I learned how to do what I was always told you could do. Sorry I have a degree in science but books don't get it for learning this stuff. I am 68, so you can teach a old dog new tricks. God bless you!
Thanks so much carmel! I'm so glad you like the episodes! I really do try to teach the concepts that I've learned. It really makes me happy when people find value in the videos... Makes it all worth it!
"Always nice to learn something new"! Strong! Self sufficiency is the way to go. Subbed seconds into to this green thumbs channel.
Awesome! I do thank you for the support! Happy growing.
Best video I’ve seen for propagating onions. Thank you.
A big g'day from Australia. now I tried this about 4 days ago and I'm already getting green shoots thank you so much for the information .
as a side comment- tou can use the peels- put in a jar of water ; cap tightly; let sit overnight- it smells to high heaven- so dont uncap inside- this is a tonic for roses! pour on your rose bushes- peels and all- pour it all on your roses as atonic- it will make your roses bloom again
What??. I've never heard of that! So cool! I wonder why that works? Sulphur maybe? A very big thank you for sharing Susan!
Susan Waters paints when you say peels are you referring to the papery peels or the actual onion?
Thanks for sharing I will have to share this.Vitamin C and was used to make rose water for skin. Planting garlic, onions under a fruit tree helps keep the bugs off. Tansy is another plant that is helpful.
The onion out side peel? Are u talking about?
So glad you showed up in my feed today 😊. I’m so excited to be able to do this with my onions bcuz I use sooooo many and now I won’t be wasting 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽😊😊😊
That's so awesome Klo! If you have the space, maybe you'll never need to buy onions again! Just slice off the rooting end and keep trading it for a new onion every couple of months! Take care, thanks for watching!
Let them go to seed and next year you can plant all the onions you want
Thank you for the simplest instructions with the up close video, exactly what I was looking for.
I enjoyed seeing you fuss with that plant in the beginning of this video. That's what I call keeping it real! This is my first time watching one of your videos. 😊 Thanks
Hey thanks for watching Clynthia! :-)
I am trying to plant in my mom's back yard... I just love the fact hat we can actually grow food instead of buying every single time.. Thanks for the info, I'll try this one..
Definitely Erich! Give Green Onions: ua-cam.com/video/vrOJ95O7JHg/v-deo.html and Leeks: ua-cam.com/video/ywYBm2_a67M/v-deo.html a try as well, even easier! Cheers!
"Light Drowning" love that 😂
Loved your opening scene! Thank you sir. God bless you and yours.
You could simply get the job done quickly by going straight to your garden with your onion tops and push the onions just below the surface of the soil, then keep the soil moist and skip all the preliminary sprouting in little glasses of water. I eat one or two onions a day and I plant the bottoms directly in my 10 big bucket garden along with the collards, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and everything else, even with my thyme, rosemary, mint and pansies. (And I plant a few fresh cloves of garlic along with everything else too! Garlic green tops are awesome in sandwiches, soups, salads, sauces, dips, and dressings etc.))
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Sometimes, if conditions are right. If its too hot out, I've had the onion slices fail to root. I prefer to see the roots first, then plant. :-)
I am trying this in an aquaponic system. I am glad I found this because mine were starting to mold as described in some of the comments. I have them pealed back now and look forward to their progress.
Awesome, best of luck!
Thanks for sharing the tip.
I have grow them them by putting them into soil when I see some roots coming out and green shoot coming out the top!
Thanks Mitch! Yeah, if it's warm enough out and your soil is receptive, you don't need the soaking stage... Thanks for watching man, cheers!
Thank you for sharing the method. I definitely will be using it to plant my onions
Best of luck Margaret! :-)
This was very helpful, I’m doing a balcony grow. So far so good with my onions 🧅 😇👌🏾💯