Growing onions on a feather at home is a common thing for many urban residents. But in order to get a decent crop, it is necessary to observe some rules of care and planting, using different methods of cultivation.
What varieties are suitable for growing on feather at home?
It is important to choose the right variety of onion culture, because depending on the type of onion, it has a different taste, and not every variety is grown for greenery. Which varieties are preferred:
- BatunHe is Tatar and winter. It is considered high-yielding, it is annual and perennial. Feature - there are no bulbs, therefore, it is planted mainly in the soil.
- Schnitt has a narrow and delicate feather part, differing in length up to 50 cm. A pleasant aroma is preserved during long-term storage.
- Tiered the variety withstands cool temperatures, thanks to which it grows well on window sills in the winter. Virtually no need for care.
- Leek - A common variant with garlic feathers (in shape). It does not have bulbs.
- Shallot - juicy and unpretentious onions with high productivity. Unpretentious enough to care for.
- Slime - similar to garlic, with a spicy pungent odor. It is cultivated in a cool room, grows rapidly.
- Parade - It has excellent taste and good green mass.
- Onion onions are most often used by housewives to distill feathers. You can use rotten heads.
- Rostov It is characterized by increased resistance to fungal diseases, gives an excellent harvest.
- Black Prince - multiglossate, due to which one bulb produces many feathers.
- Amber not afraid of diseases; it is distinguished by the density of greenery.
- Bessonovsky - shortened feathers of dense structure, average productivity.
Preparatory Activities
Planting onions on a feather is a matter requiring preparation of a place, soil, planting material, containers. Depends on the formation of seedlings, productivity, taste.
How to choose a place?
Often, in apartments, onions are planted in containers, placed on a windowsill. This is necessary to provide the plant with light. If you have purchased a cold-resistant variety, it can be placed on a loggia or window on the north side. But the best option for the bulk of bulb crops is the south side, regardless of the method of cultivation.
Seed selection and preparation
Bulbs and seeds are used for distillation on a feather at home. Accordingly, the second planted in the ground.
Features of the choice:
- Seed should be 2-4 years old.
- It is advisable to pick up onions strong, elastic (diameter - at least 2 cm). Their size does not play a special role.
- The root of the onion should not be damaged.
- If the heads began to germinate, the germination time is accelerated.
- You can use sevka - small heads formed after planting seeds in the first year.
It is important to determine the germination of planting material - the seeds are soaked in wet tissue (the more elements germinate, the better). Bulbs are subjected to trial distillation - one unit is planted in water (if it has sprouted, it means that the onion is ready for planting on a feather).
Seed preparation rules:
- select grains without damage;
- put them in clean warm water for a day, periodically changing the liquid;
- pay attention to the pop-up elements - these are empty flowers;
- disinfect - make a weak solution of manganese, hold the seeds for 60 minutes;
- wrap the planting material in a moistened tissue for germination (this is not necessary, but desirable).
How to prepare the bulbs:
- disinfect onions by immersing it in a solution of potassium permanganate for an hour;
- pull out and rinse;
- put in a container with warm water, leave for a day or two in the room (depends on the size of the heads);
- after water procedures, remove the top layer of the husk, cut the crown 1-1.5 cm;
- keep the bulbs in solution with the Epin preparation according to the instructions.
Preparation of soil and containers
The choice of containers depends on the method of cultivating the culture - it can be a glass, a bottle, a box and other devices. Remember that onions do not like high humidity in the ground, as it is exposed to putrefactive diseases. To prevent this, provide the tanks with drainage - drill holes on the bottom, lay out a layer of stones.
Soil requires special preparation - it must be fertile and loose. Rules:
- if the soil is dense, add river sand, peat to it;
- disinfect the soil with hot potassium permanganate;
- add compost or humus;
- dry the soil before planting after treatment with antiseptics.
Landing technology
At home, it is customary to plant onions, placing them as close to each other as possible. The use of seeds suggests the duration of the formation of the feather part (2-4 months), the bulbs germinate after a few days.
Seeds
Seed material on the windowsill is planted extremely rarely, since the feathers do not appear soon, but require special care. Landing technology:
- lay the drainage system at the bottom of the container;
- sprinkle a layer of soil on top;
- make grooves to a depth of 1.5 cm;
- in the holes (the distance between them 2-5 cm) plant the seeds;
- moisten the earth;
- cover with a film until sprouts appear;
- put in a warm bright place.
As the seedlings grow, open the nonwoven material daily for ventilation, water the seeds as the soil dries. The best soil is with the addition of vermicompost and coconut fiber.
Planting bulbs
Bulbs can be planted in different ways - in water, soil, sawdust - using a variety of containers:
- Landing in the water.
There is a classic option - pour water into the container (disposable glasses, cans and the like), put onions and wait for the greens to appear. This technique is outdated and has drawbacks - rotting vegetables, the formation of unpleasant odors, the occurrence of midges. Today, many use an advanced technique that speeds up the feather growth process and minimizes problems.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cut off the top of the bulb, pierce the bottom (where the roots) with a skewer.
- Pour in the tank the settled water at room temperature, dissolve 2 tablets of activated carbon, lower the head so that only the root part is in the water.
- In a day, the roots begin to grow. Now you need to drain the liquid a little so that it does not touch the bulb, but affects exclusively the growing roots.
- After 12-16 days, you can harvest the greens.
- Landing.
This is the best option, eliminating unpleasant odors and decay. Prepare the soil, healthy bulbs, container - container, pot, box. If you use leek, be sure to sprout it first in the water, having stood for a week. Then proceed as follows:
- soak the roots of onions in water for 2-3 hours;
- pour soil into the tank for 6-7 cm;
- make holes according to the size of the heads, retreating from each other by 2-3 cm;
- plant the vegetable to a depth of 2 cm (only the root will be in the ground);
- pour liberally with settled or rain water;
- put the container in a dark place for 2-4 days, and then transfer it to the illuminated windowsill.
- Hydroponic.
This method is used when planting a large number of bulb crops. Used mats-slabs, which can be bought in a specialized store. The principle of hydroponics is based on the enrichment of oxygen and nutrients, so that the green mass is growing rapidly.
The peculiarity is that in the first days the culture should be cool and in shaded conditions, after a week the system is transferred to the windowsill.
- Growing in sawdust.
Instead of soil, the bulbs are laid in moist sawdust. This makes it possible to avoid putrefactive diseases, bad aromas, dirt. The only negative - after collecting the greens, the sawdust needs to be changed.
Landing process:
- disinfect sawdust with boiling water;
- put them in a container;
- deepen by 3 cm onion;
- pour water;
- put the container on the sunny side of the apartment.
Feathers are harvested after 10-15 days. To prevent decay during irrigation, hydrogen peroxide is added to the water (10 ml per 1 liter).
- Growing in a package.
Take a thick plastic bag, toilet paper, prepared heads. Instruction:
- put paper on the bottom of the bag, moistening it;
- arrange the bulbs tightly to each other;
- inflate the bag with air;
- tie tightly with a rope or elastic band;
- put in a dark place for germination of the root system;
- expose to light after 3 days;
- opening the bag is prohibited before harvesting (approximately 10 days).
- Bottle method.
This is a versatile vertical pen-dropping method that saves space on the windowsill. What is needed:- 5 liter bottle (only after food drinks);
- scissors / knife;
- onion;
- priming;
- expanded clay stones.
Capacity preparation:
- cut off the neck;
- cut holes along the lower perimeter (the size depends on the diameter of the vegetable, the number depends on the number of root crops);
- make the remaining holes staggered;
- process the edges of the holes with sandpaper or a soldering iron;
- pierce the bottom with an awl to create a drainage system.
Landing process:
- put the stones in one layer on the bottom of the bottle;
- sprinkle a little substrate on top of the soil, peat and humus;
- compact the soil;
- put the prepared heads in the holes (horizontally), adding soil;
- place the upper bulbs vertically;
- pour water.
Onion care at home
In order for the onion to give a lot of greens, it is necessary to provide it with favorable conditions. Regardless of the method of planting, adhere to the following care rules:
- lighting should be present for 10-12 hours, but there are no special requirements;
- temperature mode: air temperature - from +18 to + 22 ° С, soil or water - from +12 to + 25 ° С;
- airing of the room is necessarily carried out, thereby reducing the risk of rotting of the bulbs;
- watering the soil and adding water is carried out with warm, settled water or rain (it is forbidden to use tap water, which is collected before the procedure).
When grown in soil
When growing onions on a feather in the soil, more sunlight is needed, so the container should be on the sunny south side. How to care for the crop:
- Take out daily to fresh air or open windows. You need to do this starting from the moment the feathers reach 3-4 cm in length.
- Top dressing is usually not performed, but experienced gardeners recommend adding potassium chloride, superphosphate, ammonium nitrate in the initial stages of green growth (4-5 cm), in accordance with the instructions for use. Further, when greens can be cut, fertilizers are not used.
- Water the bulbs 1-2 times a week. If there are nearby heaters that dry the air, the humidification frequency is increased.
- If the bulbs are not planted too close to each other, periodically loosen the ground.
- Irrigate greens 1-2 times a week, especially at high air temperature in the room.
To harvest continuously, plant bulbs in 2-3 containers with a difference in planting time of 2-3 weeks.
When grown in water
If the bulbs are grown in water, you will have to constantly maintain the same level of liquid in the tanks. Water needs to be changed as an unpleasant odor is formed - about 1 time per week. For this, water of room temperature is used, which must be defended.
When grown in a bottle
In bottles, onion crops are planted in the ground, so they are maintained in the same way as when planted in boxes / containers. The only difference is watering, since in the bottles the soil dries faster, therefore it needs to be moistened more often.
Harvesting
Feathers begin to collect after reaching a length of 25-35 cm. Only greenery is cut at a distance of 1-3 cm from the bulb. Feathers can be collected both in bunches, and one unit, depending on the need.
Useful Tips
There are a lot of tricks and tricks in growing onions on a feather, thanks to which you can get a lot of greens and get rid of possible problems. Important recommendations:
- Replace expensive hydroponics can egg trays. To do this, take 1 plastic tray, dividing it in half. The lid will play the role of a pallet, the cell - the upper tier. In each cell, cut the bottom, set the bulbs in the holes. Pour water into the pan, put the upper tier, laying wooden sticks between the two elements. This is necessary so that only the roots, and not the bulbs, are in the water.
- No matter what you grow onion feathers, be sure to substitute pallets for draining water after irrigation under containers and containers.
- A bow loves light - without it, feathers become light, yellow and lethargic. Therefore, in winter, it is necessary to provide the "beds" with additional light - put a phytolamp, a luminescent installation and the like.
- If the apartment is too hot, the onion stops the growth of green mass. In these cases, you need to wrap the container with ordinary foil, which will protect the heads from overheating.
- In the soil taken from the street, insects and larvae of pests can remain, which under favorable conditions actively breed. To prevent this, do not refuse the procedure for disinfection with boiling water. The earth can be fried in an oven for 10-15 minutes.
- Try to pick out the green bulbs for the forcing of greens, giving a crop of feathers 2-3 times more.
Growing bulbs on feathers, regardless of the method, you can please your family with fresh herbs year-round. The main thing is to decide on the planting method, strictly follow the requirements of agricultural technology and do not forget to harvest.
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