JayPoc
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onions flowering prematurely

I have a bunch of my onions getting ready to flower. These were started from set I guess about 2 months ago, give or take. I've never had them do this this early. What should I do? Go ahead and pick and use the onions, lop of the forming flowers and let them keep going, let them flower and seed and still harvest the onion later? This hasn't happened before that I can recall....

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digitS'
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They aren't going to be the best keepers but you can break off the flowering stalks and the plants should form bulbs.

The stalk goes right down thru the bulb so there will be an easy route for decay.

Those bulbs will need to be used soon after they are harvested.

Steve

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No worries there. We really don't keep onions anyway....well, I mean we keep them growing in the ground until we're ready to eat one and then out it comes...lol...

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The whole onion plant is edible, including the flower stalk and the flowers.

I know what you mean, some grown from sets will always want to flower.
You can eat them now, clip the flower bud and let them bulb, or let them
bloom and eat the bloom, or let them go to seed and save the seed.

I usually just clip the bud off as soon as I see it. They will make a bulb,
but as noted, not the best storage bulb.



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