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- From: "netzero" <wyatt_jones AT netzero.com>
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Long Day Onions
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:20:47 -0500
Hi
I want to try some new onion varieties but
most I'm inclined to try are long day varieties. I've mostly been growing
intermediate varieties since I've been in Ohio to be safe and I noticed that is
what a lot of people here grow but I find it kind of limiting. As I
understand it Long day means you are supposed to grow them above latitude 43 but
some varieties, like Copra I've found are supposed to be long day but
listed as above lat 38, others 40 etc unfortunalty most are just listed as
Long day. Also I've heard that for long day onions the longest day of the
year should be 16 hours or more. Anyway I'm at lat 39.65 and the longest
day is almost exactly 15 hours. I did some research and
it seems some people in West Virginia are growing a couple of the varieties I
wanted to try, Varsity and Redwing, and I know Redwing is supposed only to be
grown above Lat43, They have no issues with them and I'm about
as far north and anyplace in WV. I tried a webseach but mostly found
articles raving about some varsity onion rings at some college diner in
Atlanta. Maybe I'm over thinking this, I feel like I'm on the
hairy edge location wise. I grew Walla Walla last year and they did great
but of course they don't keep. I was also thinking about red bull or
redwing but in the Fedco catalog they list redwing as needing lat43 or higher
yet says it might not grow well in northerly areas because of a long growing
season LOL. I've tried to look some of the varieties up on the internet
concerning this but its hard to find on most varieties I've found.
Johnny's is pretty good about listing the requirements of the varieties they
have but they don't have most of the ones I'm trying to locate information
for. Also have the same problem with shallots. Oh well, so much for
the information age
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- [Market-farming] Long Day Onions, netzero, 01/09/2013
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