Question about onions

[sugarapsa]

I planted my sets in late Dec '23. I removed a few to make room for other summer vegetables (photo attached).

Two part question; how much longer will these take to fully develop on average, and should these be cured before using or is it best to use them fresh?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Meadowlark]

What variety of onions?

In my climate, I plant onions in Oct./Nov. and harvest in mid-May. Yours may be some later.

If the onion is for storage for use at a later date, it needs to be sun dried for a few hours before putting into storage. Also, I like to withdraw water from them at least a week before harvesting but that will be impossible this year with 43 inches of rain in the last 19 days.

If for immediate use, I do nothing to them except clean when using.

 

[sugarapsa]

Varieties are Dulcinea Sweet & Texas Early.

After sun drying for a couple of hours are they stored as is or bulbs separated from the tops?

 

[Meadowlark]

Two hours definitely would not be long enough here, but your climate is drier.

After drying, I remove the tops as shown and store cut end up.

 

[sugarapsa]

My apologies if I wasn't clear about my question: I am not talking about mature onions. This discussion is about removing onion before they reach full cycle. Like the one in post #1. The reason I harvested them early is to make room for a few summer vegetables. So with this in mind: Can these be dried and stored?

 

[YumYum]

My apologies if I wasn't clear about my question: I am not talking about mature onions. This discussion is about removing onion before they reach full cycle. Like the one in post #1. The reason I harvested them early is to make room for a few summer vegetables. So with this in mind: Can these be dried and stored?

Sure they can dried and stored. That is what they were when you planted them, a second year onion in most cases. That is the reason sets tend to bolt.

Now if you plan to replant it, it probably won't bulb out being a 3rd year onion. I don't know. Putting the little dried onion bulb in a salad does sound pretty good though. I haven't done that but I would try it with bulbing onions. Probably not with green onions.

 

[sugarapsa]

Sure they can dried and stored. That is what they were when you planted them, a second year onion in most cases. That is the reason sets tend to bolt.

Now if you plan to replant it, it probably won't bulb out being a 3rd year onion. I don't know. Putting the little dried onion bulb in a salad does sound pretty good though. I haven't done that but I would try it with bulbing onions. Probably not with green onions.

Your first paragraph was exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks YumYum!