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    White rot resistant onion?

    I was looking through a seed catalogue recently and came across a whiterot resistant onion. Great thinks I, I'll have some of those as some of my allotment has white rot in it!

    Trouble is, I can't find it anywhere now. Was I only dreaming?

    I've long wondered why seed firms had made big advances in clubroot resistant varieties but never tackled the allium white rot scourge which can be just as devastating.

    Any help in finding this whiterot resistant onion would be appreciated!
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    If you find it, post it won't you.

    I've got a bed that has it and I'd love to find some.

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    • #3
      I googled.
      Onion white rot, caused by the fungus Sclerotium cepivorum: there are no resistant onion varieties
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        Onion neck rot is something different (Botrytis allii)
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
          I googled.
          Onion white rot, caused by the fungus Sclerotium cepivorum: there are no resistant onion varieties
          Ah well......thought it was too good to be true!
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #6
            I'm sure I saw something about a 'may be resistant' variety or a 'more resistant variety', something along those lines. I remember because I noticed they were being very careful not to say that it was definately a resistant variety. But I've looked through all the catalogues I have left this morning and I can't find it again. I'm wondering now if it was an advertisement in the back of a mag or something.
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            So laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Comfreyfan View Post
              I'm sure I saw something about a 'may be resistant' variety or a 'more resistant variety', something along those lines. I remember because I noticed they were being very careful not to say that it was definately a resistant variety. But I've looked through all the catalogues I have left this morning and I can't find it again. I'm wondering now if it was an advertisement in the back of a mag or something.
              Sounds daft I know but the variety I remember had an 'A' in it! Anyway, back to the drawing board. What with "I can't grow brassicas in this bed because of clubroot" and "I can't grow alliums in this bed because of white rot" it makes for very interesting gardening and creative crop rotation. Luckily (or unluckily depending on how you view it) the same beds appear to have both white rot and clubroot so will become permanent legume beds (until some little known soil active legume fungus becomes apparent!)
              My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
              to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

              Diversify & prosper


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              • #8
                And you're dreaming of seed catalogues

                Can you dream up a butterfly slug resistant variety of cabbage Snadger that would be really helpful
                Hayley B

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by HayleyB View Post
                  And you're dreaming of seed catalogues

                  Can you dream up a butterfly slug resistant variety of cabbage Snadger that would be really helpful
                  You mark my words..........if ever they bring out a white rot resistant onion it WILL have an 'A' in it's name!
                  My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                  to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                  Diversify & prosper


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                  • #10
                    You may have seen Golden Bear F1 - organic catalog - described as highly tolerant of white rot.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by hyakutake View Post
                      You may have seen Golden Bear F1 - organic catalog - described as highly tolerant of white rot.
                      Welcome to the vine hyakutake and you've saved my bacon as I thought I was cracking up!

                      I've just checked and it's in the Robinson's catalogue as well so that's where i'd seen it!

                      Here's a link if anyones interested:-

                      Onion, Leek, Shallot & Garlic seeds

                      Just scroll down.........fifth one down!
                      Last edited by Snadger; 07-12-2008, 12:12 PM.
                      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                      Diversify & prosper


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                      • #12
                        oh yeah and it even had an A in it fingers crossed that it works

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                        • #13
                          Thank you for the link...

                          That's another 400 onions seeds bought. 100 of 4 different varieties.

                          I love onions, me.

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                          • #14
                            Thank goodness for that, I thought I was cracking up too. I could only think of teddy bear!! Tried googling teddy bear seeds, but that's a sunflower apparently!
                            Life is too short for drama & petty things!
                            So laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly!

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                            • #15
                              Organic Catalogue are also selling Golden Bear F1: Extra early maturing with very vigorous growth. Superb globe shaped bulbs weigh 300 grams. Highly tolerant of ...white rot. 240 seeds £2.27

                              a bit better value than the previous link, Robinsons: Early maturing globe shaped with vigerous [sic] growth. Heavy yeilding [sic]. Resistant to White Rot.50 seeds £2.10
                              Last edited by Two_Sheds; 08-12-2008, 12:18 PM. Reason: pedentic [sic]
                              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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