2013 Onion Growing Challenge

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  1. JWK

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      Are you keeping them around 18-21 deg C Freddy?
       
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      Hiya John.

      I'm not really able to maintain temperatures constantly in that range. My min/max thermometer is recording 'lows' of around 10-13c and 'highs' of around 25c.
       
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      I'm having the same trouble with my propogator since moving my seedlings into the greenhouse Freddy. But to start them off I kept them indoors on the kitchen windowsill where it is a reasonably steady 20 deg C all the time. Is indoors an option?
       
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      Hiya John, I guess so, yes. Thing is, I'm always loathed to have 'stuff' indoors, as I like to keep up the humidity, not easy indoors. I guess I could 'bag up' the pots:)
       
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      Hello chums:)

      Still nothing showing, so I've decided to buy some more seed. Something of a setback, but that's ok, it's the 'gardeners lot':)
       
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      I'm moving mine around the house to keep them in the sun while we've got some.
       
    • Phil A

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      I've just done a second sowing of the Dwarf beans as the first lot rotted, so you're not alone there Freddy. Got germination on the Runner beans though:blue thumb:
       
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      Were bis gunner grow they to then? A bit early innit?
       
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      They'll bide in their own Gardeners Corner:)

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      No wife to moan about em now:dbgrtmb:
       
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        Poor germination of all my varieties. I've now got 22 Ailsae, 13 Kelsae and 2 Robinsons Mammoth Red pricked out into a 40x cellular tray with 3 empty cells, but that should be enough and I don't want to use my lights exclusively for onions.
         
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          I'm trying to keep the temperature down my propagator isn't TC and they are growing a bit too well...cranked up the prop bench to put them in there.....hope i don't check their growth......
           
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            Will that still be warm enough during the freezing weather that's forecast for next week?
             
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            I've got covers for it and fleece,bubble wrap you name it Scrungee...but i'll have to keep my eye on the ball......can you tell i've never grown an onion in my life:biggrin:
             
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              Bedfordshire Champs an almost total loss, got about 6 seed germinated, it was old seed though, on the order list for this years seed buying...

              I'll try and get a piccy of the Kelsaes and Long Red Florence sometime this week, quite a few (dozen) at the crook stage, potting on into 64 cell trays filled with JI no 2 plus a few in my made up recipe, going straight into 4" pots.
               
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