How many seeds should I expect from an onion flower?
How many seeds in an onion flower?
Jun 23, 2019
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the head can hold many individual flowers so do you mean the entire head or an actual individual flower? if you mean the head it would be from a few to a few hundred or even a thousand or more (some of my larger onions get very large flower heads with many many flowers). i…
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the head can hold many individual flowers so do you mean the entire head or an actual individual flower?
if you mean the head it would be from a few to a few hundred or even a thousand or more (some of my larger onions get very large flower heads with many many flowers).
i haven't looked it up to know for sure so i don't know if this varies by cultivar or type of onion.
my guess is that each flower of the common onions i grow has six seeds.
now i'm going to go look it up. :)
i'm not having much luck on exact numbers so i will pull one out of the air. :) it will be a multiple of three. so three, or six seeds per flower seems to be about what i can remember.
these two links have some interesting information:
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songbird
Sounds like one is all I need to replant!
Thank you!
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