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How to Grow Cipollini Onions From Seed
How to grow cipollini and mini onions from seed: soil and sun, latitude, sowing in bands, seeding rates, and harvesting bunches.
By Hensley’s Seed Co.
Cipollini, Mini & Specialty Onions - Key Growing Information
SCIENTIFIC NAME:
Allium cepa
CULTURE:
Like all onions, mini onions want full sun, steady moisture and fertile soil with a pH of 6.2–6.8. Keep them weeded.
DAYS TO MATURITY:
Counted from direct sowing.ADAPTATION: The farther north you grow mini onions, the smaller and earlier they bulb. Pearl and cipollini types suit latitudes of 40° and above; at lower latitudes they grow into small to medium onions.DIRECT SEEDING: In early spring, sow about 1/2" apart in bands 2–4" wide or in single rows 4" apart, and cover 1/4–1/2" deep. No thinning needed.
AVG. DIRECT SEEDING RATE:
At 96 seeds per foot in 4"-wide bands with rows 12" apart: 5,000 seeds sow about 50', 1 oz. about 80', 13 oz. about 1,000'; plan on roughly 34 lb. per acre.
HARVEST:
Pull bunches whenever you need them. Skins don't form until 2–3 months into the season, so young mini onions are easy to clean and use.
SIZED SEEDS:
Seed is not sized.SEEDS/LB.: 113,700–134,300 (average 123,300).
PACKET:
1,000 seeds per packet unless noted.
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