Who is starting seeds indoors this season?

[Beekissed]

So...any of you growing onion seeds and NOT using grow lights? If so, how long does it take them to get from these little hairs into a fuller, three leaves plant? So far I've got hairs and the hairs aren't doing much of anything. Just looking fragile and limp, though watered well.

Planted on Jan 20th, germinated around the 23-24th but since then not much happening.

 

[majorcatfish]

just finished ordering seeds.....chomping at the bit now only 3 weeks to go.......

 

[majorcatfish]

update.........
just finish ordering 3.5x 3.5 pots and a earthquake mini cultivator.....

down to wood and fertilizer ..heck it has to stop raining before ordering that........

 

[dickiebird]

I have heard of using zip ties.
I decided that the metal shelves and the old metal bookcase shelf I pushed up to the wall next to it needed to have permanent jobs, growing seeds during the winter (and in the future) and pot,

I didn't know it was legal to grow pot in Ill.

THANX RICH

 

[baymule]

I didn't know it was legal to grow pot in Ill.

THANX RICH

Sure it is! You just gotta put it in the basement and not tell nobody.

 

[destinduck]

some sugar snaps,seed potatoes(purple,red and yellow) purple speckled butter beans,first time with nasturtium,yellow passionfruit,second batch of spinach,sweet tamarind,sugar apple and artichokes to name a few ...seed wise. All outside getting poured on last 2 days. lol! Good luck growing everyone this year

 

[Smart Red]

So...any of you growing onion seeds and NOT using grow lights? If so, how long does it take them to get from these little hairs into a fuller, three leaves plant? So far I've got hairs and the hairs aren't doing much of anything. Just looking fragile and limp, though watered well.

Planted on Jan 20th, germinated around the 23-24th but since then not much happening.

Haven't started my onion seeds yet. Just picked them up this Friday but they will be planted soon. I have a sun room -- stays at least 40 degrees in the coldest of our temperatures -- so I can start the onions out there without grow lights. They do take a bit of time to look like they are happy to be growing, but they will grow. And those early plantings will give you better onion plants when it's time to put them outside.

Once mine get over three inches tall, I take a pair of sharp scissors and give them an inch haircut. It seems to me that clipping them enourages new leaf growth and stronger plants much like pinching centers out of marigolds encourages bushy plants.

 

[so lucky]

I just realized I have a bunch of old small onions growing like crazy in the dark basement. I wonder if I could grow new bulb onions from them if I cut off the tops and plant them? They are the dregs of some I grew from plants last year. Candy or something similar.

 

[digitS']

@so lucky ,

doesn't it seem likely that they would bolt to seed?

That could provide you with seed for next year's onions.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Cut off the tops and plant the tops or cut the tops off the onions and plant the bulbs?

I've had the same situation in the spring from time to time. I just plant the whole thing. The bulbs will regrow from the center out and I get firm onions. They are more likely to bolt -- go to seed -- if planted as two-year olds. I just cut the seed ste