heat treated or regular onion sets

**TEB** · 28-07-2009, 07:03 PM

First year for heat treated for me, 130 white onions = 1 bolted, 70 red = 1 bolted, I will definately go this way again

**kate&rob** · 28-07-2009, 08:38 PM

most of my reds, not heat treated have bolted, the ones i used last year that were heat treated were far more reliable so i would recomment heat treated, even though they do tend to be a bit dearer.

**SarzWix** · 28-07-2009, 08:54 PM

I didn't realise you could get heat-treated over-wintering sets? I thought only the spring planted ones were...
Anyhoo, I planted Red Cross over-wintered sets last year (not heat treated) and Electric red sets the previous winter (also untreated), and had very few bolters, maybe one or two out of 50. In the spring of this year I planted Red Emperor heat-treated sets and every single one has bolted

So I won't be wasting my money on them next year, I'm going to plant Electric and Red Cross to over-winter, and stick to white onions for spring planting.

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