We grow Exibishen onions from seedlings and seeds

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When preparing most dishes, onions are used, so every summer resident plants this vegetable crop in his garden. Recently, new varieties have appeared, which are worth paying attention to. So, for example, Exhibiting onion not only differs in taste, but also grows to almost gigantic sizes. One onion sometimes weighs up to 500 g. Consider how to grow Exhibishen onions in your garden.

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Growing methods

Exhibiting onions can be grown from seedlings or seeds. The first method is more common. This is due to the fact that seedlings give almost 100% survival rate. When growing onions from seeds, one should not expect that from each seed a turnip will turn out. At the same time, when buying seedlings, you can never be 100% sure that in front of you are the seedlings of this particular type of onion. The variety of seeds, if purchased in a specialized store, corresponds to the name on the package.

Also, planting Exibishen onion seedlings is a less routine activity than growing from seeds. If you grow seedlings yourself, you won't be able to save time, but growing onions from seedlings gives you a higher yield. Consider how to properly grow a vegetable crop from seedlings and seeds.

Growing seedlings

Growing seedlings can be roughly divided into several stages.

seed preparation;
soil preparation;
planting seeds;
seedling care.

Let's consider each stage separately.

Seed preparation

Growing from seeds involves the preparation of planting material. The preparation will take about 3 days. First, the seeds are soaked in pre-warmed water (20-25 ° C). It is enough to hold the seeds in water for 2-3 hours. Then remove the seeds from the water and carefully wrap them in a pre-moistened cloth. Leave the planting material in this state for at least 72 hours. You can hold the seeds in a damp cloth for 4 days.

After carrying out the above procedures, the planting material is disinfected. For this you need potassium permanganate. Dilute 1 gram of potassium permanganate in 1 liter of cold water, place seeds in the resulting solution for 7-8 hours. The water temperature should be 40 ° C, therefore, during the entire disinfection time, the solution will have to be changed or heated.

Soil preparation

After disinfection, the planting material must be planted in the ground. Seeds are not grown in open ground, therefore, containers for planting (boxes, for example) and soil are preliminarily prepared. The preparation of the soil must be approached with special care. The soil mixture consists of 3 components: humus, sod land and rotted mullein, taken in certain proportions.Humus take 9 parts, sod land and rotted mullein - 10 and 1 part, respectively. All components must be mixed well.

Planting seeds

The soil mixture is laid out in pre-prepared containers, then sown with seeds. You can make beds, the depth of which should not exceed 1.5 cm, and after laying out the seeds, cover them with earth, or you can go an easier way. Spread part of the soil mixture into boxes, lay out the seeds, cover the seeds with the remaining soil mixture. To ensure good germination of seeds, they are covered with a layer of soil 1.2-1.5 cm thick. It remains to cover the box with glass or tighten it with plastic wrap and wait for germination. In this case, the room temperature should be 22 ° C. As a rule, the first shoots appear 10-12 days after planting.

Seedling care

As soon as the first shoots appear, they open the boxes and put them in a bright place. It is important to provide the temperature regime necessary for the normal development of seedlings. During the day, the temperature can vary from 17 to 20 ° С, in the evening - from 10 to 14 ° С.

In addition to ensuring a certain temperature regime, the seedlings must be systematically watered and ventilated. Water the onion as needed. After 60 days, the process of hardening the seedlings begins. During the hardening process, the seedlings are taken out into the open air and left there for a while. You can simply open the window and place the boxes on the windowsills.

At first, the time for the procedure is no more than 15-20 minutes, gradually this time is increased. After 2 weeks, the seedlings must be adapted so that they can be planted outdoors. Pickling of seedlings is usually not done.

Growing by seeds

Planting Exhibitive onions with seeds is not much more difficult than growing seedlings. To some extent, growing vegetables from seeds is even somewhat easier. You first need to prepare seed material. To make the seeds easier to plant, it is advisable to stick them on paper. It is convenient to use toilet paper for these purposes. You need to take a type of paper that is soaked in water.

You can glue seeds to paper only with paste, which dissolves in water. To prepare it, you will need starch, water and a container for stirring. Take 1 tsp for 100 g of water. starch. First, water is poured into the container, then, stirring continuously, starch is introduced, after which the container with diluted starch is placed on the smallest fire and the mixture is brought to a boil, stirring continuously. The paste is ready.

After the paste has cooled, the seeds are glued to the paper. Pre-lay the paper on the table or any other thick paper. Using any thin stick, gently apply glue to the paper in the place where the grain should be. Seeds are laid on top of the glue. Since the Exible Onion seeds are very small in size, this process will take a lot of time.

You can, of course, not engage in pasting seeds on paper, but sow them in the ground in the usual way. However, by spreading each seed separately, you can save yourself from the constant thinning of the beds, which takes a lot of time. In addition, part of the crop is lost during the thinning process.

Growing onions for the winter

Since it is difficult to preserve a turnip throughout the winter, Exhibiting can be planted for the winter. True, growing onions in this way is quite difficult. This is primarily due to the temperature regime. In regions with cold winters, this method is almost impossible to implement. You need to plant salad onions during the first frost. The air temperature at the time of disembarkation should not fall below 0 ° С during the day, and -5 ° С at night. In this case, the temperature on the ground should not fall below 3 ° C.

Onions sprout already at the beginning of spring, and the harvest is obtained in July. It is better to plant a small set for the winter: it tolerates frost better.

Time of disembarkation of the Exibition bow

The planting time is regulated by the growing method. If a seed growing method is chosen, then planting should be done in April. As for planting seedlings, you should wait until early May. In addition to the recommended landing dates, the climatic features of a particular region should be taken into account. Since the homeland of this vegetable crop is Holland, it needs warmth, therefore, in regions with a harsh climate, you need to postpone planting until the soil warms up. Alternatively, you can equip a greenhouse at the summer cottage, in which it will be possible to regulate the temperature regime.

Onion care

The Exhibitive onion variety cannot be called particularly capricious, but it also needs some care. The first thing to take care of is systematic watering. Sweet onions Exhibiting need moist soil, so it is advisable to carry out agrotechnical measures to ensure that moisture is retained in the soil. It is advisable to mulch the soil. This measure will not only help to retain moisture in the soil, but also to some extent solve the problem of weed control. You can mulch the beds with straw, tree bark and even thick paper.

To grow a good harvest of Exhibiting onions, you need to provide oxygen access to the roots of the plant. An agrotechnical measure that solves this problem is loosening the soil. It is necessary to loosen the soil infrequently, but systematically. If necessary, in parallel with loosening the soil, weeding the beds is carried out and the weeds are removed.

In order for the Exibition onion to grow to its maximum size, fertilizers must be applied to the soil. Onions of this variety need the following minerals: potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium. Fertilizers must be selected appropriately. In this case, you should not make too much dressing. Fertilizers are applied at planting and during the period of intensive growth. An excess of any mineral element is no less harmful than its deficiency. You can feed a vegetable crop with mineral mixtures that include all of the above elements, or you can purchase one-component fertilizers. The first option should be preferred.

Onion diseases

All plants, and onions are no exception, are susceptible to one or another disease. At the first signs of ailments, you need to start an intense fight with them, but in order for this fight to give the desired result, you need to understand what disease you are fighting with. Consider those diseases that are most common.

Rot

Sometimes, even with impeccable care, Exhibishen onions are attacked by such a disease as rot. It is difficult to determine it, since the turnip is directly affected. On the bottom of the onion, a mycelium appears, which is white. As for the general signs, the growth of the plant slows down, the feathers fall on the ground.

With these symptoms, you should pull out one turnip and examine it for rot. There are no methods for treating this disease today, but the affected onion heads should be pulled out of the ground. They should be eaten immediately. They are unsuitable for storage, since rot quickly spreads from the bottom to the entire bulb.

Smut

When growing Exhibitive onions, sometimes summer residents are faced with such a problem as smut. This is a fungal disease. It is indicated by the dark gray stripes that appear on the onion feathers. Unfortunately, this disease cannot be treated, but in order to preserve the harvest of onions, the affected feathers should be removed.

Gray rot

This disease, like the previous ones, is caused by spores of the fungus, but, unlike rot, the neck of the bulb is primarily affected. Further, the disease spreads to the rest of the bulb.Since the process of decay occurs in the neck area, the feeding of the feathers stops, therefore, if the onion feathers turn yellow, it means that the vegetable crop is affected by gray rot. This disease cannot be treated. And we will talk about how to prevent its occurrence later.

Stem nematode

This disease is caused by small worms living in the ground. First of all, feathers suffer from this disease. They brighten and curl, then the bulb itself begins to rot, so it is important to start treating the disease in a timely manner.

To get rid of the stem nematode, you can use drugs that are sold in specialized stores, but they are all toxic, so you cannot cultivate the land immediately before harvesting. Experts recommend not to waste time fighting a harmful worm, but to destroy the affected vegetables. From folk remedies, you can try an ash solution or other disinfectants. But, as practice has shown, they are ineffective.

To prevent the appearance of stem nematodes, you need to plant high-quality planting material. Before sowing, it can be kept for 2 hours in the ash infusion or heated at 43 ° C for 120 minutes.

Pests

The plant is also affected by pests that are found in the garden. To prevent their appearance on onion beds, flowers with a strong smell are grown nearby (marigolds, tansy, calendula, nasturtium, pyrethrum, geranium, lavender, petunia). These smells, according to reviews of summer residents, who have been sowing such plants for several years, scare off almost all harmful insects, including nematodes. You should also treat the onion fly beds with drugs sold in specialized stores.

To prevent the appearance of pests, you can sprinkle the beds with wood ash.

Disease prevention

To grow a healthy plant, it needs proper care. If last year the vegetable crop suffered from fungal diseases, then the location of the beds needs to be changed. Fungal spores live in the ground for 4 years. Throughout this period, the seeds are sown elsewhere. After the expiration of the time, you can return the beds to this place. Alternatively, you can decontaminate the soil, but it is better to plant seedlings or seeds in a new place.

The selection of planting material before sowing is another preventive measure. Seeds should be bought only in specialized stores, and seedlings from trusted people. When buying seedlings, it is important to take a closer look at the roots of the onions: there should not be any larvae or clutches of eggs.

You should also treat the beds with insecticides and use folk remedies. But if insecticides are used at an early stage of the growth of a vegetable crop, then folk remedies, due to the fact that they are not toxic, can be used even before harvesting. In order to prevent the appearance of pests in the summer cottage, it is advisable to treat the culture with ash or other antiseptics every 2-3 weeks.

Harvesting and storage

The first question that interests all summer residents is how many turnips of this variety are stored? Of course, the shelf life depends on how timely the onion was harvested, whether it was properly prepared for storage and under what conditions the turnips are stored. But, even if the onion was harvested on time, and properly prepared all winter, it will not lie. As a rule, it lasts for 4 months. This is most likely due to its large size.

Harvesting onions

Onions are harvested on average 70 days after sowing. More specifically, it is impossible to say after how many days you need to remove the onions from the garden. Under different climatic conditions, the ripening time of the vegetable crop varies, so you need to monitor the condition of the onion feathers. After the bulb ripens, the feathers begin to turn yellow and lie on the ground.It is important not to overexpose the turnip in the ground: this will negatively affect its storage.

Storage preparation

After harvesting from the garden, the onions must be dried. It is best to do this outdoors, but you should not spread the crop on the ground. It is advisable to pre-cover the ground with a tarpaulin or burlap, and then spread the harvested crop on the tarpaulin. This is done so that insects living in the ground do not harm the onion. In addition, in case of bad weather, it will be much easier and faster to harvest the crops in the barn. The crop is dried for several days.

If it is not possible to dry onions in the open air, do it in a barn. It is advisable to position the turnip so that sunlight falls on it. Turn the bulbs periodically so that they dry on all sides. It is important to ensure that the covering scales do not crack during drying: this will negatively affect the storage time of the turnip. Alternatively, you can dry the onions in the oven, but this is only suitable if we are talking about a small harvest. As a rule, after 10-13 days, the onion dries completely and you can proceed to the next stage of preparation.

After drying the onion, you need to sort it out. This is done in order to sort the bulbs into those that need to be eaten first and those that can be stored for a long period. First of all, you need to eat bulbs that are susceptible to diseases such as rot or gray rot: these vegetables will not lie for long. In addition, they cannot be stored next to healthy bulbs, then the bulbs are sorted by size. The larger the onion, the faster it will start to deteriorate.

Storage

There are several ways to store onions. Many people braid the bulbs in braids. This is convenient because the crop takes up little space. In addition, each bulb is visible and easy to reach at any time. You can store onions in drawers, but placing them on the floor is not recommended. They should be located on a hill.

It is impractical to lay the crop in several layers: the bulbs will begin to rot, which will significantly reduce the duration of the storage period. It is advisable to sprinkle the onions with husks, which are necessarily formed during drying. The room must be dry.

As for the temperature regime, at the moment there are 3 storage methods. The first is called cold. It assumes that the room temperature will be maintained from -3 to 0 ° C. With this method of storage, as practice shows, onions are stored for the longest time. With a warm method of storage, the temperature is maintained in the room from 18 to 22 ° C, while the humidity varies from 60 to 70%. With a combined storage method, we maintain a temperature of 18-22 ° C in autumn, in winter they make sure that the thermometer drops to -3-0 ° C, and in the fall the temperature is again raised to 18-22 ° C. The latter method is the most economical in terms of energy consumption.

An important nuance

You will not find sevok on sale for the simple reason that the shelf life of exhibition onions is only 4 months. And then the question arises, how to get onion seeds exible. It is quite possible if you set such a goal. But you will have to try to save at least 1 onion at least until February.

We choose a medium-sized onion as a mother liquor. Its weight should not exceed 300 g. As soon as green sprouts appear on the selected bulb, we plant it in a shallow container. The volume of the container should not exceed 2 liters. In this case, it is worth choosing not the most nutritious soil. The ideal option would be a mixture of turf land with sawdust and river sand. All components are taken in equal amounts. Ash is also added to the soil. For each liter of soil, you should take 1 tbsp. l. ash. It remains to plant the bulb and save it until planting in the open ground. The mother plant should be planted so that 2/3 of the turnip remains above the ground.

The soil in the mother liquor should always be moist, but not wet.Also, after sowing, you need to monitor the lighting. If there is not too much natural light, then artificial lighting is organized.

Sometimes the uterine bulb is divided into 3 parts during the growth process. If this happens before it is planted in open ground, then carefully cut it into pieces. In this case, you need to make sure that each has a root system. Until the time when you have to plant onions in open ground, they are seated in separate containers.

It is impossible for other varieties of onions that bloom to grow in the garden, otherwise Exhibishen will dust with them, and the resulting seeds cannot be used for breeding the variety.

Conclusion

In order for the Exibishen onion to grow well, it needs fertile soil, so you should not forget to systematically apply top dressing to the ground. Also, the quality of the harvested turnip is affected by the quality of planting material. It is better to grow seedlings yourself from seeds, and it is advisable to purchase seeds in a specialized store. Do not forget to water the plant, which is in dire need of moisture.

Exibition is a salad onion that has a sweetish flavor. Perhaps, after describing the taste of a vegetable crop, it gained popularity. Today this variety is appreciated for its sweet taste.