Growing Green Onions - Over and over and over
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- In this video I purchase green onions (scallions) at a grocery store, then bring them home and regrow them! Green onions are an amazingly versatile plant, and one of the easiest to grow and regrow. I explore 3 methods of re-growing to see which one has the best results. I regrow these plants in tap water, in soil, and with hydroponic nutrients. See what works best and decide what method is right for you! Re-growing vegetables can save you money and you’ll fall in love with the taste of freshly harvested food!
These plants are quick and easy to regrow, and can be harvested in less than a week!
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After starting in water, I transplanted mine to soil, about five years ago! If I don't harvest enough, they have grown to 3 feet tall. When they go to seed, I collect and dry the flowers and so far I have hundreds of seeds from them. Very good plant to start children into gardening as it is almost always easy and successful. Nice to snip one off, rinse, and add to a baked potato. Good video!
Incredible
I cut to 1/2" because I use the onions, then plant the root end into my garden.
I have success by just clipping off the root end about 1/4" above the roots, and putting them in garden soil, they start to sprout new leaves in 10 to15 days I have been doing this for more than 50 years.
It seems a shame to waste the edible part by cutting them off as high as he did in the video. I like your method much better...Thanks for confirming my suspicions that this will work.
I've cut them even shorter than that, down to an inch from the roots and all of them have grown back. If I need to use the whites of the onion for a recipe, I'll buy a store bunch, cut them down to an inch , and rehydrate the roots in water (replaced daily, eww onion water!) for a few days till the center starts growing and then I transfer it to my clay pebble tray. I use the plastic tray that tomatoes come in because it already has holes in the bottom and I set that inside a mushroom container from the recycle bin. I put the nutrient solution in the plastic mushroom tray and the water fills up into the clay pebbles and the onion roots grow down into that and Take Off.
They grew so much that they started clogging my grow lights and I had to cut them back and dehydrate them and hand them out to my neighbors! LOL I also put some outside in the yard, but they are doing so much better in my indoor recycle center hydroponic tray! I'm using Master Blend. I'm considering making a new set and seeing if they grow as well in outdoor sun this coming spring/summer. I've harvested from the same plants over 10 times, I'm sure ive lost count. I have to keep cutting them down as they grow up so tall and I keep adding new ones. The other day, my store's manager asked me if I wanted to buy the rest of her wilting grean onions on discount... Heck Yeah!! Let the Garden Grow! (P.S. She knows when I'm coming in looking for plants to grow, taro, lemongrass, etc, and called me out on it one day, then laughed and picked some for me that she said would grow well. That's how to ensure repeat customers, genuine human interest!
Love to hear the success your having! Keep it up, sounds like you're having fun!
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One big tip that I have learned if you were growing them inside and water is to only put them in water as deep as the roots. No deeper or they will mold! You're better off getting your green onions from a farmers market the first time. They will be stronger and healthier.
Great stuff thanks for sharing!
Smart Commenter Here!!!! Yeah, mushy rotten onion water is awful. I learned that the hard way. Thanks for saving others from the scourge of dying onion sewage! LOL
Thanks, had to learn this the hard way the first as I planted them in a mason jar and filled water to top. Moldy and algae >_
I agree with you. I realized that the plants are very weak and rot when I transplanted them into the earth.
replace with clean water and clean roots every few days ..
I grew them in a pot outdoors last year and harvested 1-2 leaves each week for more than 6 months. Interestingly, they survived the winter in zone 7a. Looking forward to a lot more this year!
That’s incredible. I love a plant that just keeps harvesting!
works here too! in my area!!!!! get some snips even at x-mas m mine are outside and i have them in a large pot and use some , not much miracle grow to keep em goin
whats zone7a ?
All onion types will survive winter. Even garlic which you want to plant during winter :)
We take a different approach. To start out, we head to our local Mexican markets where the green onions are freshest. When we get home, we remove the green portion and store it in the refrigerator in a freezer bag with a dampened paper towel. We immediately plant the white portion in one of our outdoor pots and it grows very well. in the Arizona sun whether in the summer or the winter. When I need green onions, I head out to the pot with my kitchen shears and remove only the greens. I really do NOT use the white portion in cooking unless I am grilling them.
As the onions age, the green portions get thinner and longer which works for me. I think that at some point, some of the onions die out.
Well said. Sounds like you have mastered your system!
Wasn't thinking of this with Scallions, now I am, thank you.
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Learned a lot. Thank you.
💚🌱🫙🧅 Started my 6 green onions indoors today.
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I just watched this and am going to do it tomorrow. But I'm confused, don't you eat the whole onion and not just the top green part. If you know, I would appreciate knowing also .🙂
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I've done this many times and I can only harvest x 2 the most. After that, they don't grow much and the white parts get thinner and die. Maybe I'll try hydroponic. Thanks for the vid.
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thank tou for such an simple clear video, this will serve as an instruction video for our students and we will do this as group project and get back to you!
Love it! Best of luck with your plants!
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Thanks for this! 😃 I have a bunch of hydroponics nutrients and have some green onions! Will definitely try this and have green onions every time! 😄
Best of luck with your plants!
How much do the hydroponic nutrients cost? That's a factor
I have been doing them in tap water with success ! I am trying th soil method next. Great video! I am in zone 7a too. Massachusetts
Didn't watch the Video but I tell you I LOVE green onions... And I LOVE Booker T & the M.G.s "Green Onions".
Thank you for the video, I'm trying it.
Good luck 🤞
I have been doing this winter and summer for years , we Persian use lots herbs and this green onion comes very handy 👍
WHAT OTHER HERBS CAN DO THIS ?
Thank you
Will definitely try
Good luck!
Great video thank you :)
so easy!!
Cool, nice to see projects for the upcoming winter that can be done indoors.
This is a nice easy one!
Packed with information thank you 🤗
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So cool nice to see it 😊
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Good job
Agree totally. Put mine in the ground in an area without extreme sun. Harvested all summer and did fertilize regularly. Put them in a cold frame and they produced all winter! Now they are in their 2nd year and I can't hold them back!! I had planted a small area in the garden that was too sunny.. they died and I removed the dead plants. Well it is the next spring and what do I see.. a brand new set of onions where I had removed them!! LOVE THIS!! I have observed that they prefer being in a container which I bury into the ground.. why.. do I care why? LOL
Amazing! Coming back year after year is great
So good
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Growing bunching onions is so easy, just don't let them go to seed because the seeds will blow all over your yard and you'll have thready little onions everywhere. If you cut them back when the seed pod comes up (and before it pops), they'll multiply from the roots and you can dig them up, divide them, and plant them in another area or in pots. After cutting, you'll have harvestable green tops in about a week.
I keep them in water, rinse the roots and change the water every day.
I get about 3 - 4 harvests before they get too thin and weak.
Great Video, thanks so much! I want to try with the nutrients as well, but have a few concerns when using General Hydroponics 3 part solution.
First, do you worry much about monitoring pH and ppm early on before transferring to kratky or other more permenent system?
Second, the ratios on my bottle are tsp/gallon, but im only working with maybe 1/3 cup of water! Any tips on how to correctly scale down SOO far? My pipet only goes down to 0.5 ml anyways...
I suppose for the second question, the idea is to just make it in a large batch and THEN distribute lol
Hey Hunter - I sometimes will mix a large amount of water/nutrients as per bottle instructions, and then use it in smaller batches over time. As a way to get the ratios right.
I would try to keep the ratio of each part consistent with the recommendations when making smaller quantities.
Once mixed and generally from there on, I try to monitor ph levels to whatever google says is optimal for my intended plant.
Best of luck!!
I'm a very novice grower, so I was hoping you could give me an idea of how often you were watering the potted scallions? (I will probably do 2-3 to a pot as well) Thanks very much for the video also :D and have a great day
Im a bit of a rookie with soil myself honestly. I typically poke my finger into the soil about an inch, if it feels dry in there i water, if its moist i wait.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can enlighten us both. Best of luck with your plants!!
@@JimmyBHarvests thanks so much pal :D
Depends on where you live. The hotter and dryer the climate the more frequently you'd need to water. The good thing, and what makes growing these easy is that you can't over-water them.
It must be a big well kept secret when to sew green onions and other easy crops. People learning to start growing things need this guideline. The 3 methods you showed were very helpful they showed they all still grew but the difference in how quick they grew and ideal to show new gardeners if they follow one of your 3 methods they will still get good results only one way might affect the speed. What is the stuff you put into your 3rd example This was best result and great for me to try out thank you so much
I actually started stuffing my green onion "leftovers" into dirt in December, when I thought about it, looking at some poor wilted children in the fridge. All I did was fil a WalMart reusable grocery bag with half a bag of topsoil (half a cubic foot) and stuffed them in about an inch deep, and 2 inches apart.
They are doing strong now (in April), and I am snipping leaves almost daily. I do have a few bags going.
Granted, I also live in Seattle. I don't recommend trying to plant them when the ground is frozen. Bulb and tuber crops seem to not be very picky about when they're planted. That's part of why I love them so much.
The other is the ease of propagation.
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my favorite method is going to the groceries
easY and always available
I used distilled water and in a matter of days I had like 2-3 inches growing.
Love it
Yeah, tried to grow scallions in our kitchen window….and got those little knats that like wet soil. Would either move outside or do hydroponic .
Hi ! Thank you for the info . I have everything ready. What are the mLs you are putting into the green onion hydroponic water.? ( i have the same brand/ formulas you used.)
I believe I saw you put ? "mls of 'each one " into the hydroponic water. Thank you in advance.
With advanced nutrients micro/grow/bloom it’s 4ml of each per 1L of water as per bottle instructions. With green onions I’d probably try to get away with just 3ml of each per L of water. Best of luck with your plants!
@@JimmyBHarvests thank you for your time.
you eat the white that really nice
Dr. Obi thank you but how do you transplant them
All the Chinese and Japanese restaurants should grow some.
The bulb is the best part.
great video. thank you.
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Thanks for this! I just realized that I've been cutting them way too short. (At the white bits) Your method is much better.
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I've cut them down to as short as an inch and have had them grow back. the key is just to only put them in enough water to keep the Roots hydrated, not the stems. As it regrows, the outermost leaves will either dry up, or mush off. Replacing the water every day so that mush doesn't rot everything, and cuz onion water just stinks. Once I see it is growing from the center, I rinse them all off, removing any mush and planting the healthy growing center.
I have my plants in some soil on the windowsill right now. However, it always seems that the regrow is smaller and thinner, without that robust taste I'd expect of green onions.
Hmmm, might be time for some new soil / adding some compost.
I have the issues you describe when regrowing them in water only. With soil they seem to come back fairly consistent with how they were originally. Good luck!
spring onion may be small and easy to grow but are surprisingly hungry for their size give your soil fertiliser and they will taste better remaining you are what you eat. spring onion only has water then what you eat will only be water
Onions require sulfur in order to produce the compounds that contribute to pungency. If you're still growing these, make sure you're using a fertilizer that contains sulfur (any ingredient that contains "sulfate" in the name contributes sulfur) or add a small amount of gypsum (preferred) or epsom salts along with your fertilizer. Make sure not to overdo it.
How would liquid potash work with these methods?
That stuff is amazing. I used it on Bijou dwarf sweet peas supposed to grow 40 cm with the potash liquid fertilizer, they grew up past my waist. About a meter high.
Wow! Not sure - havent used it personally
Question, if they flower. Are they ok to eat and can you get seeds from them? I'm a little unsure.
J'ai fait la même chose dans des grands pots avec du terreau et ça l'an dernier avec de la CIBOULLE et je me suis servi abondamment pendant toute la saison - Mais sans ajouter aucun engrais autres que naturels
can you test one with water and sugar?
When do you eat them? If you just keep using them to grow new?
So they’re ready to eat after one week😮? Mine have been outside much longer than a week, I thought they should be there longer. They do look full grown.
So if I only harvest half the stalks and let some grow will it flower and I can harvest the seeds? I think im going to headstart mine in the winter and not harvest it and see how it blooms in the spring.
Yep that should work. Best of luck with your plants!
Is it beneficial to keep the plants under a grow light all day?
Grow light is great but a sunny window is also enough to grow these plants. The more light you can give them, the quicker they should grow! Green onions even grow great on my kitchen countertop without any direct light. Super easy plant to take care of
Thanks for the video. Do you have to worry about frost?
no
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Does the bulb part continue to grow fatter or just the roots grow longer?
Bulb will expand in soil and hydroponic nutrients. Not in plain water. Most growth will come from the leaves regardless though.
I grow green onions in our local zoos compost along with pepper and tomato plants. Benn having great success each year. I live in Jacksonville, FL.
I really love Advanced Nutrient, but they are costy. how do you deal with the cost of those nutrient and growing green onion? isn't less costly to simply buy the onion? do you keep your nutrient water until there is no water or you throw the mix every 3 days?
Great questions! Its always a challenge to balance the input costs and the output harvests.
When doing this with green onions i typically regrow them in water only, no nutrients. They come back a bit weaker, but its free.
If you do still want to add nutrients, maybe you can experiment with adding water/nutes, then just water, then water/nutes again, etc., to not be wasteful
Hi @JimmyBharvests what happen after 4 times ? It gets weaker, less taste ?
exactly. less taste, the leaves get kind of transparent.
What happens after 5 harvests? I grew mine last year, with soil and sunlight. They started to thin out and then lost the roots. I don't know why
They just seem to thin out over time.
Them's scallions!
For me it's the lower white part I desire - thinly sliced in omelettes or egg drop soup. So how to get more of the root end?
sorry... for that u have to buy more at the store
I start them in a pot that is essentially mud. Then I just mist the top.
So I have question. Since you they can only be harvested 3-4 how would I grow more from these so that I can not go back to the store and repeat this process. How do I make it self sustaining
If you don’t harvest the leaves, the plant will eventually flower and produce seeds. You could harvest the seeds to plant them. This would be the only way to make it indefinitely sustainable.
@@JimmyBHarvests thanks you for ur quick reply definitely subing for more
Я на грядке зелень срезаю- она потом хорошо вырастает..раза 2-3 иногда..но головки может и не быть...
What is the point? The best part of the spring onion is the white part.
The green part is excellent in an Omelette and is commonly used in Chinese food.
The onions grown in soil for months will grow the white part to a really nice size.
I chop the green bits off, going slightly down into the white. And then just stuffed them into dirt.
I'm container gardening, using WalMart Reusable Plastic Bags. Two of them take a 1 cu. ft. bag of topsoil like they were designed for it.
And just snip a leaf from a few different plants as needed.
Did you change the tap water during the process or it is from the beginning ?
You can change it every day or two. It’s not a big deal if the water doesn’t get changed often, but it does help to keep things clean and healthy
@@JimmyBHarvests thanks 👍👍👍
I don't know if this would really save me money per se, but it would be more convenient than having to buy them from across town.
I find that I don't usually use the entire bunch of green onions, so planting the rest in soil (I have pots outside for this purpose) means I have fresh green onion tops plus when I need a whole one or two, they're just fresher than when bought at the store. And the longer you let them grow in the soil, the bigger the white part gets when you do pull them up. I try to buy an extra bunch of onions and keep them growing and replacing them with more as I use them up.
Hello. Why do the green onions from the store have many green parts coming out of each bulb (is that what they're called?) but home grown has only 1 or 2 green stems per plant?
How can I get each bulb to produce many green stems? (Planting for the first time today).
I think those are actually different species of plants and the 'green onions' name is being used loosely to encompass both. I have seen both versions in different places as well. Best of luck with your plants
@@JimmyBHarvests Thank you for replying!
If I used onions from the grocery store (used the roots to regrow) and the onions were not organic, does that mean my regrown onions will have fertilizer/pesticides or whatever the farmer uses on the crops?
Theoretically there could be still some traces of any chemical treatments used on the original plants.
If you let the onion grow long and large enough , you may see it growing extra stems out the sides. My onions stay pretty skinny but a few that grew thick enough started growing side shoots. I think it just depends on the growth of the individual plants. My lights are a bit high so my onions stretch and are very long and thin, but the container I had elevated closer to the light grew thicker round greens and some off shoots.
why cant you keep harvesting after 4-5 growths? Can you continue if you add nutrients?
I'm not sure. I think plants have a somewhat finite amount of growth in them. If we keep chopping the plant down, eventually it stops coming back up, or the leaves that do come back are weak/thin. That has been my experience anyways.
I have mine outside in little pots and been harvesting about 2 years now. And they bloom. I want to catch some seeds and plant new ones.
Why haven’t I been doing this? 😂
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Hi jimmy untried to find the hydroponic grown solution you suggested but your link is not working. Maybe that product is no longer available. What else can I use? I'm growing these chives like you did..I believe I found one....a monkey on the bottle right? Lol
Advanced nutrients micro/grow/bloom its a three part series. Yes a monkey on the bottle. The links are geo-targeted and may not work in your location, sorry about that. Any hydroponic nutrients should work
does this mean after 3-4 harvests it won't work anymore?
With green onions, yea pretty much. That’s been my experience. Things like basil or sage you could regrow forever
It would've been interesting to see the difference in growth with some cut as short as 1'' also.
I do this. I cut off only the bottom 1 inch or even a bit less. Stick in a tiny container with a bit of water. You really need to rinse the new roots and change out the water every other day, keep in about 1/2 inch deep of water. Try to keep the buggers upright. You can put several in together to help prop each other up. The roots grow fast. In 2-3 weeks or so, you could plant outside in frost free weather. I put mine in large pots outside and let them do what they will, use as I need. Every couple of years I have to re-do because I live where winters can get below -36F. No biggie. They grow little babies which I let fall and they grow the following year. Super easy.
I grew mine in soil to be over 3 foot tall and it was thick which eventually produced seeds while out doors in hot humid climate. I dont know why you keep cutting it so soon. Lately with different soil and climate to be not as hot they are not doing as well. hmm
Are indoor green onions safe to eat if they're in perlite and water?
Sorry I'm not a perlite expert.
Sorry. It can only grow and harvest only 3-4 times? I plan to go the hydroponic method. Please advise
The plants lose some of their vigour each time it is harvested and forced to regrow itself. After 3/4/5 regrows, its time to get new onions and start the process over. You cant regrow one set repeatedly forever.
@@JimmyBHarvests thank you so much 🙏
after 3-5 cuttings, they stop growing?
They get thinner and thinner and lose taste
How many times can I harvest after cutting?
3-5 usually
Somebody's trying to make a killing at our local grocery store. ONE bunch, containing 7 onions, $1.99. And those were almost ready for the compost bag. Needless to say, the store got to keep them. Fresh green onions are worth maybe TEN CENTS each.
the flavor is in the bulbs. growing leaves doesn't accomplish anything does it?
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but I eat the white part and use green for garnishment. How do you regrow the white part?
If you leave even a small piece of white, with the little roots, it can regrow. Theres a video of a guy showing how small you can go
@@JimmyBHarvests that is what I was thinking. I think I am going to try this in a bucket with some potted soil. ill go to Home Depot this weekend.
I get good roots going, then as soon as I plant them, they die.
That’s what happened to mine it’s getting soft and dying
Buy and plant "Walking onions"/"Egyptian onions"/"top-multiplier onions. They replant themselves.
Great tip
@@JimmyBHarvests But not nearly as easy to find
Considering the super inflation, it is worth the effort.
To buy onions is cheaper than to add all those nutrients. I do prefer to regrow them, don’t get me wrong. I am just stating the fact 🙋🏻♀️
Great point
How so each dose is mere pennies after the small investment of buying the onion.
Yeah I wouldn’t consider it cheaper unless you already had the supplies on hand, but for me I would like to grow green onions at home so I always have a fresh supply. I tried growing it in water but the regrowth is much thinner. I already have pots and soil so in going to try that and see if I get better results
What if I want to eat the white part tho :(
what city do you live in?
Toronto!
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BROOOOOOOOOOOOOO whats a good nutrient for veggies bro i love your channel, im scared nutrients will affect the taste
BROO YOU USE WEED NUTRIENTS??
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Thanks for the kind words bro 🙏🙏 everything I’ve grown with the nutrients has always tasted great. Never had an issue
I really enjoy using the advanced nutrients because they ph balance themselves
UK ...sunshine ...? I'd do better growing cannabis and then just talk to the plants; 6-7 hours a day ... but only after Greenhouse Effect really kicks in. Seriously though...thank you for uploading this very practical video. I actually live in Spain, so will see how it gets on. Regards.
But the white part is the part I eat the most.
Unfortunately we eat only the white part.
That's impressive but I eat the green and white part together, so... yeah.
I’m not sure you know what an inch is 😂😂
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Dont u eat the white part, new part grows too
You say "three to five" harvests per plant. Do they die after that? Why not more?
From what ive seen the leaves come back duller/weaker every time and eventually the plant sort of gives up. This is especially true in the water only scenario. The plant needs access to nutrients to continually rebuild itself