green onions (growing, containers, plant, roots)

[MYTHTEARY]

I have been water growing green onions started from store boughts. Have had enough success to do some experiments. Planted one. It was doing ok. Then one night ALL my onions wilted at the same time. I went through the possibilities. All had clean water. It wasn't cutting too short because the tall vase onions wilted, too. The shorter clear glass containers wilted all the way down to root pods. I had recently drained the potted one. All crashed in one night. Spouse suggested that night was the warmest in my room ever. Could too much heat do it?

[Nonchalance]

I grow the stubs in water, too. It's transplant shock; they dislike being transplanted. So either keep them in water (though they won't grow to the same size and will eventually run down), or plant them in soil from the start.

Hope this helps, because onions are so easily regrown from stubs.

[kevin_d]

Green onion root stubs are pretty hardy ime. Just cut off the green part, stick the white part in soil. Don't really need to re-grow roots by putting in water first, if the ultimate destination is soil.