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Hello

I hope someone can answer my question.  I have grown my own onions for the second year running, this time though I seem to have some white floery type heads on some of my yellow onions.  Any ideas why?

Many thanks

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They might be allergic to leather helmets!

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Hi Dotty.  Some types of onions are more prone to bolting (flowering early) than others, but it could be due to stress, i.e. not enough water.   Try cutting flower heads off and keep the other onions watered.  If they lurch from very dry to suddenly wet the stress can cause them to flower, and this is the onion's response to make sure it has time to produce its seeds for the next generation.
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