How to Easily Grow Your Own Onion Sets at Home

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1. Great! Thank you Luke
2. Do you / can you reuse soil?
3. i put 3 onion sets in one container should i seperate them they are pretty small?
4. I don't understand onions at all! Which for some reason makes me think of Shrek. I don't know where I'm going wrong. First, I thought it was not enough fertilizer and poor soil combo. Now, I 'am growing in both a large pot and in good soil. Have tried buying local sets and planting from seed. It is a crazy disaster. HUGE greens, with beautiful fennel-like folds and no bulbs whatsoever. Season isn't over, so I'm just awaitin', but 4 or 5 plants went to seed. I am confused as to whether I should plant long-day or short day onions in Florida. Can you recommend a type for me to purchase that will work. Or, tell what I'm doing wrong?
5. Thank you, I love the tutorial you made, but, you plant the seeds in spring. How long do you grow in the pots before preparing for sets?
6. I ordered onion sets, but I feel I have too many. Can I half of them and plant later? What's the shelf life of the onion sets?
7. Since onion sets are basically just small onions...would fully grown onions also work as sets? And if not, where's the cutoff point, approximately? Also, can you create a set from a set, or since they're biannuals, would the plant grown from the set be the end of the life cycle, and its bulbs not produce more life at that point?
8. "Unthawed?" So...wait for the ground to freeze, then? Sorry, I couldn't resist. Thanks for the informative vid!
9. your video are very good and clear  thank you for posting   keep posting  please
10. Awesome idea!
11. thank you 
12. Many thanks for that very informative video, I normally use Japanese onion sets for over wintering and seeds for spring planting. You can quite often get onion seeds reduced at the end of the season to clear, so these would be ideal for growing into sets for the following year.
    Have you ever tried growing from your own seed stock?
13. Great video, Luke. I'm going to try this. I'm not a fan of buying onion sets, but if I can grow them myself....yea!
14. This is not Luke's First Rodeo !!!
15. Well that was really informative. This was my first year growing onions (from seed) but I had also planted one onion from the store I had that had sprouted and the plant grew vigorously, only to suddenly go to seed as you said it would (it wasn't even a set).  It produced nothing, obviously. The seed onions are doing great so far and starting to turn to bulbs, so I'm looking forward to harvesting them later this year. Thanks for an informative video and channel.
16. +Sharon Hoyes I never said that onions started from sets do not store, I said onions that form a scape ( seed stalk) do not store, and they do not. The sets have a higher chance of going to seed than growing from seed does, and that was my only point. But to each his own,whatever works for you!
17. I'm done with onion sets. They hardly grow for me. Will try the seed, thanks!
18. Thanks buddie. Cant wait untill next spring. 
19. Pretty cool and easy method :-)
20. Im definitely done with onion sets, that are year olds.  Going to do half from seed, and half from plants that someone else started from seed that havent gone through dormancy yet.  I can get onion sets dirt cheap, but they just arent doing it for me.