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Originally Posted by ilex
I think grey shallots are one thing, and all the others are just onions, multiplier onions. The tricky part is getting them to flower, specially with older varieties. New varieties do flower often.
There's a lot of breeding potential with these.
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I'm sure the grey shallots will always have a special place for gourmets, because of the subtle difference in taste. The shape is pretty too. But the other traits that distinguish shallots - multiplying, and being extra firm and long keeping, are most interesting to me, even if they are just multiplier onions.
I would think that producing seed regularly would interfere with production of bulbs.
As this seems to be an either/or way of using resources to reproduce.... Maybe there is some happy medium, where you get flowers and seeds often enough to cross breed them, but not too often to interfere with your crop?