Depending on the onion variety, the methods and timing of harvesting their seeds are somewhat different. Therefore, one must observe this or that agrotechnics of disembarkation, care and collection.
How to collect the seeds of leeks?
For seed leeks, it needs to go through the stage of vernalization, that is, winter in the open ground without transplantation or in the frozen form in a cool vault. In summer such plants give an arrow, bloom and give seeds.
You can also use plants, having dug them in the early spring in an unheated greenhouse. This method is used in the northern regions, where in the open ground the onion simply does not survive the winter cold.
After the full growth of the leeks of leeks you need to stop their pruning, then the onion will go to the "pipes", on which the boxes with the seeds will begin to form. When the shift is ripe, the pipes are cut, then they are rationed and then threshed. You can sow the seeds after the snow falls next year.
When to collect onion seeds?
Feature of onions is that its seed production is conducted in a three-year cycle of life. In the first year, seeds are densely sown, a seedling is obtained from black cherry. In the second year, the resulting onion-seedling is planted to obtain a mother bow. And only after planting and maturing onion onion you can collect its full seeds.
In the southern regions, you can pass the second stage of this cycle, getting the onion bulbs immediately from the seeds in the first year. As a result, seed production will take not 3, but 2 years.
The time when it is possible to collect the seeds of leeks from the uterine heads occurs approximately 120-130 days after planting them. Therefore queen cells are recommended to be planted in the early spring, as soon as field work can begin.
How to collect onion seeds?
Onion-seedling itself is a planting material. To grow it, it is necessary to sow black cherry in the grooves (onion seeds). Care of the beds is in irrigation, thinning, fertilizing and loosening.
The time when collecting onion seeds, or rather - the bulbs themselves, comes when the feather is tied, the cervix will become soft and thinner. They are dug out, well dried and stored until next year, then to use them to grow a full onion.