Hi everyone,
I discovered a brown onion in my cupboard had begun to sprout pale green iips from the top. It still had very short roots, all dry - one was as long as a cm, while the rest were shorter than 2mm. For the fun of it, I decided to place enough water to touch the base, but not the bulb, & took a sheet of thick braille paper, folded into quarters, & cut a hole in some middle, poked the green stems up through, & set the onion into a small coffee cup, which is narrow enough to not allow the bulb to drop down into the water. & so the bulb is shaded, & the tips are growing, & very pretty green, in my window sill, where the cup & water do warm up during the day. I guess my onion likes that.
Unfortunately, this is the time of year when my windowsill plants will receive less direct sunlight & within three weeks there will be no more, & a few more weeks until I get any direct sunlight on my back porch. By then, I guess I will pot my onion properly.
My problem is I don't like leaving anything outside of my flat. Things get taken or&/ broken. I know it doesn't actually cost me much money to see how my onion grows or not, but like it, rather like a pet. I like how the roots are growing, (& so far as I can see), looking like walrus whiskers, & how the green tips are looking more like leaves, & so pretty green. So far, it's responding to my care. When I po it, I would like to know what fertilizer it would like. I hope it doesn't want that fishy stuff - that's really disgusting to smell. I do have some slow-release granules, & will be happy to use some of them, unless I discover they are unsuitable.
It's a nice, quiet sunny afternoon. Time for a snooze on the pool table = time to practice your trick shots.
Warmly,
mmMekitty
