Walking onion seed

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by clkingtx

I don't know if the seed grows true, but if there are no other onions around to cross with, wouldn't that mean it self pollinated? I am growing a walking onion that had mostly"seeds"- they don't look like actual seeds, but just tiny, under developed bulbils(is that what you mean by seed?). The only other allium I have growing is chives...they can't cross, can they? That would be strange...

Mine broke off like yours, where I removed the bulbils- and so I just planted all of them. So far, several of them have sprouted.

Could they be crossed with anything that might be growing wild somewhere? My neighbors have pretty overgrown yards sometimes, but I haven't noticed any gardens.

I removed all of the bulbils from one plant, and then the flowers produced seed. With all of the various alliums I have, they could cross. I believe I have two different walking onion "varieties" (one producing green bulbils, the other red bulbils). Next year, I'll try to plant them near each other and again try for seed.

[Medbury Gardens]

I'm onto my F2 stage of grow out and have 10 clumps of walking onions nearly at the point of producing scapes. In the photos below is one of two F2 plants from a year ago, it produced good sized bulbs identical to the parent clone and having no other onions flowering that summer i was only hand pollinated over itself

young seedling


Same plant but older


What the F2 plant produced




These are the size of the parent clones that i started with