Apple,Eric, there's not much chance that anything I grow will be doing better than yours.
Are you planning to cut the tops off?
...or accidentally bruised....I keep reading that topping is not recommended while growing onion seedlings or at transplant time. I find it unusual that the onions I've been buying from Territorial Seed Co. have both the tops and roots cut back. They been giving nice size bulbs every year.Transplanting the onion seedlings
Onion seedling of about 8 weeks can be transplanted. In other criteria about 22 cm tall onion seedlings are ready for transplantation. Onion seedlings must be hardened in order to make them tolerant to transplantation shock. For it, one week drought is maintained in the nursery bed exposing sunlight and not irrigating the nursery bed.
In the transplantation day; 1 hour before uprooting the seedlings, irrigation is done in the onion seedling raising nursery bed. Please don't cut the tip of the foliage of the onion seedlings. Cutting of the tip of the onion seedlings is called topping. Topping will lower the onion bulb size leading to the growing onion less successful. About 3 cm deep transplantation of the onion bulb is good.
Flat production field is better than the raised production field with respect to the onion bulb harvest. The spacing of the onion seedling should be 15 to 10 cm if growing onion is in cool season. The spacing of 15 x 20 cm is maintained if growing onion is done in warm season. The transplanted field or transplanted onion seedlings should be irrigated after the transplantation.
