Yalta red onion - growing and my reviews
Onion "Yalta Red" - growing from purchased seeds
I grow many types of onions - poctopus, multi-tier, shnit, leeks, fragrant, shallots, but different varieties still do not cease to amaze with their shape and color of the bulbs. Stardust - white, Red harrow - violet, Shetana - golden, Early pink - the name speaks for itself.
Every year I find new items for my garden tests, and so the past season turned out to be successful for me in acquiring a new variety - it became Yalta red.
The saleswoman said that he was unlikely to grow in our area, and on the packaging it was written that it has a long growing season - it should be sown for seedlings in early February. And although it was already the beginning of March, I bought a bag of seeds with the hope that everything will work out for me.
For a day, I soaked seeds in a weak solution of potassium permanganate, changing it twice, then dried to a state of flowability.
I poured into the cut 5-liter plastic water tank (I consider it the most convenient for growing various seedlings) fertile soil with the addition of plant compost and river sand.
The seeds prepared for planting spread on the surface at a distance of 1 cm from each other, slightly pressing down, and fell asleep on 1,5 cm with the same soil, moistening it.
I put it in a transparent bag - it turned out to be a greenhouse, which I later opened for ventilation.
The sprouts of the shoots began to appear after two weeks. At first the seedlings grew slowly, but in April, with the onset of warm days, cheered up. On the garden planted it in mid-May. Having made a furrow, she added ashes and watered, and to make the plants well-rooted, she put the arcs covered with covering material.
Feeded with fermented infusions of herbs and garden weeds with the addition of humic-new fertilizer. Watered a little, because the precipitation is quite enough, it was often superficial loosening.
See also: Onion: cultivation, varieties, useful properties and characteristics of care and structure
In September, onions formed full heads, they were unusually flat and resembled a saucer in shape. She cleaned it at the very end of the month. We all liked this variety of onions - it is sweet, with a faint note of pungency.
They ate fresh, added to salads - I am very glad that I was able to grow it. No wonder the proverb says that the bow loves those who love it!
© Author: Tatyana Nikolaevna village Ustinsky, Tambov region.
CULTIVATION OF RED CRIMEAN ONION IN MOSCOW REGION
Several times after visiting the Crimea, along with tan, wine, fruits and impressions of the sights we saw, my family brought bundles ofLadkoy onions, which they call there Yalta. Sweet, fragrant, it is very good in salads. And I really wanted to grow something like that at my dacha.
This proved to be a daunting task even for an agronomist. Having tried all the varieties and methods of cultivation, I did not immediately find varieties that would suit the taste, yield and keeping quality.
There are 3 subspecies of onion (Allium cepa L) - western, eastern and southern. Red onions belong to the southern subspecies. It has medium and large bulbs of red-violet color, round, elongated or flat. Bulb density is medium or lower than average, juicy scales are thick, 1-1,5 cm across. Bulbs are small-nest, 1-2 primordial. Leaves with a waxy coating, tubular, long (up to 65 cm) and wide (1 -2,5 cm across). The growing season of sweet red onion is 160-200 days. In the middle lane, he simply does not have time to mature. But it is not stored for long, only 2-4 months. Why? Sweet onions have fewer volatile fractions of essential oils than spicy ones. Yalta onions can be called dessert at all: it has no bitterness at all. Other varieties nevertheless combine sweetness with the bitterness inherent in ordinary onions.
Interestingly, it is the Crimean red onion, which is grown between Yalta and Alushta, called the delicious variety. It was developed from varieties grown on the island of Madeira and in Spain.
WHICH VARIETY TO CHOOSE?
I grew many varieties of red onions in my plot. Of the early maturing, Red Baron, Black Prince and Danilovsky 301 have the best preservation (with good taste). At room temperature, their bulbs retain flavor and turgor for about 5 months. If the temperature is around 1 °, then they will quietly hold on for 7 months.
Red Baron is one of the most affordable varieties with a dark red color of juicy scales. It is a peninsular variety with medium onions. It is grown both from seed and from seeds. Gives a fine feather (when grown on greens).
The black prince gave excellent harvest, elegant bulbs, round, weighing up to 100 g, with purple scales, very dense. The taste is almost sweet, with a touch of light.
Carmen MC has beautiful bulbs, dense, but not very juicy. It is not as sweet as other red varieties. In a cool room (say, in the cellar, in the nets), the bulbs are well stored.
Mid-season Danilovsky 301 is very elegant: the bulbs are large, flat and round-flat, almost sweet, with a light little wit. It can be planted with seedlings as well as seeds. It is stored perfectly, only to find sevok on sale is extremely difficult, so I grow it with seeds.
Also tested early varieties Crimson Ball and Yukont.
Crimson ball forms very regular bulbs rounded. They are dark purple, pleasant semi-sharp, almost sweet taste. For salads is great, but it is stored, let's say, medium.
Yukont bulbs are medium-sized, flat-round, but sharp, with almost no sweet taste. Accordingly, it is stored like ordinary onions. That's just the "chips" of red onions - a delicate taste - he does not.
I liked the hybrid F1 Red zeppelin - early, fruitful, with rounded onions of a semi-acute taste. With a rare planting, the bulbs grow very large! And here is another hybrid, F, Campillo, failed the test. His bulbs are large, purple, spicy-sweet taste ... yes keeping quality low.
Cultivated from seeds, Yalta was similar to “that” Crimean onion, only with a flat bulb shape, a rich purple external scales and poor keeping quality. The yield is not very high, and in taste it is an ordinary spicy-sweet onion. The uniqueness of the taste of that very Yalta onion is provided by the climate and the soil. Poorly stored, no more than 3 months, and Brunswick Red.
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The selection of varieties from sevka is usually small, and the quality is poor. Therefore, I prefer to grow onions through seedlings. In April, sometimes it is necessary to feed him, if I see that the plants are behind in growth. I use either full mineral fertilizer or a mixture: ammonium nitrate - 10 g, superphosphate - 20 g, potassium chloride - 5 g, I dissolve it all in 5 l of water.
A week before planting in the ground, I begin to harden seedlings, gradually lowering the temperature: opening a window, but avoiding a draft. It is ideal to keep plants on an unheated veranda: there is enough light and the temperature during the day does not exceed 15-18 °, and at night 10-12 °.
LANDING
Good predecessors for onions are cucumbers, zucchini, lettuce and peas. I prepare the site in the fall, adding phosphate and potash fertilizers for digging. I introduce nitrogen in the form of rotted manure under the previous crop (peas themselves enrich the soil with nitrogen).
I plant a seedling at a permanent place in early May, covering the garden bed after planting with covering material. For disembarking choose cloudy day. Plants are planted in well-moistened grooves with a depth of 5-7 cm approximately in 40-50 pcs. on 1 sq. m and plenty of water. Onions are demanding on the intensity of illumination, so cleanliness of crops and plant density are of great importance.
IMPORTANT. Onions drought is extremely dangerous. Having experienced a lack of moisture, the bulbs immediately stop growing. And further watering will not change anything. It is necessary to constantly keep the soil moist.
I water onions in the first half of summer at least two times. And be sure to loosen the aisles to provide air access to the root system.
I do not apply additional fertilizing, because fertilizers have been applied since autumn. However, if onions are grown on a turnip, and the soils are very poor, then we can recommend fertilizing with nitrogen fertilizer in the 2-3 leaf phase (20 g for 10 l of water). Chemical treatments also try not to do.
With prolonged rains, abundant morning dew and temperature changes (nightly 13-15 °, and daytime 22-24 °), onions can suffer from downy mildew - overpenosporosis. At the same time, his feathers turn pale green, turn yellow, become deformed, and with high humidity are covered with a gray-purple bloom of sporulation of the fungus. For prevention, I use a systemic low-toxic drug based on the bacteria Bacillus subtilis. It can be used even on feather-grown onions. That's just the treatment should be carried out at least 1 time in two weeks.
STORAGE
We start harvesting onions in late August or early September on a warm, warm day. A signal is the lodging of leaves. We carefully dry the removed bulbs: the upper scales should be dry and intact, the neck should be thin and closed. Unripe bulbs-thick-necks are used as food in the first place.
© Posted by A. PETRUNIA, agronomist
WHAT IS YALTA ONION USEFUL?
Last summer, the famous Yalta onion was brought from Crimea, which is considered medicinal and sweet. However, the onions turned out to be just as pungent as our local ones, even slightly bitter. Maybe they sold us a different variety, but its large, flat purple bulbs fit the description. And why is Yalta more useful than other varieties? N. Sviridova Moscow
The Yalta variety is sweet and medicinal, and is in great demand among the population of Crimea and vacationers. The special medicinal properties of onions are given by phytoncides, which kill and suppress pathogenic microflora, as well as antioxidants, which slow down oxidative reactions at the cellular level and thereby preserve our health and inhibit the aging process.
The antioxidant activity of onions with different colored bulbs is not the same. It was found that for red it is 1,5 times higher than for yellow, and 3,7 times higher than for white.
Red onions are richer in anthocyanins (immunomodulators), and yellow onions are richer in flavonoids (quercetin), which strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
However, in Crimea and the southern regions, Yalta onions are bred and propagated by many people, which leads to heterogeneity and degeneration of the variety. Semi-acute and even acute populations can be found.
Vegetable growing enterprises and farmers grow 3 varieties of onions of the Yalta type: Yalta local, Yalta ruby, Yalta plus. The latter has the most balanced and stable biochemical composition, and, accordingly, a pleasant taste.
Consumers of market products must first buy an onion and try it if the sellers themselves do not offer a tester.
E. LEPESHKINA, agronomist
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In the market I saw beautiful red onions, flattened from above and below. The seller said that this is a Crimean bow. I have not seen a set of this onion for sale. Is it possible to somehow get the seeds on your own, for example, by planting a bulb and waiting for the arrow?
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- The Crimean onion breeds in the same way as any other. In the spring, plant the bulb in the soil - it will give feathers and arrows, on which peduncles and seeds are then formed. When they dry, collect and store them. And next spring, sow in the ground. As a result, you will get the so-called sevoc. And after further planting, already grow your own Crimean onion on the site.
By the way, in some cases, a full-fledged bulb is formed already in the year of sowing the seeds, but in cold regions it will definitely not be the same size as in the Crimea, and will be sharper. Do not forget that this southern onion and not in every region will form ripened seeds. If your summer is cold and short, then, with a high degree of probability, the seeds will not be viable.
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We have been planting red onions for many years. But it is affected by powdery mildew. Last summer, the pen suddenly turned white all at once, literally in a day, covered with powdery mildew. The feather lay down, the bulbs did not grow, they remained small. Near the forest, where a lot of wild lupine grows. When it blooms, it is covered with a white bloom. I assume that disputes fly from him. Maybe it would be worth mowing it, but I don’t have the strength and opportunities for this. How can you spray onions from powdery mildew - when and how?
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Dear Lydia Nikolaevna! Downy mildew, or onion peronosporosis, is a fungal disease that affects plantings of this vegetable in almost the entire territory of Russia. The spores of this fungus are always present in the air, regardless of whether there are nearby affected herbs. And onions usually get sick if they are overfed with mineral water or manure with excess nitrogen. I used to successfully use a preparation based on mandipropamide, (according to the instructions) - there are many names on sale, but now I just try not to overfeed the onions. I bring in only old compost and every week I spray the feathers with whey, diluted 5-10 times.
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I really wanted to breed Yalta, but I could not find seeds anywhere. Last fall I saw it in a grocery store and bought two heads - I put one in storage until spring, the other I buried in the garden bed and insulated well.
And in the winter I again saw such an onion on sale, but with sprouts. I bought a couple of onions again, but now I planted both in pots and put them on the cold window. By spring, the feathers had reached a length of 40-50 cm, so they had to put up supports. In such a "violent" form, I planted them on the garden bed. So what? They fired arrows and changed their minds to bloom. I hope, however, that I will come to an agreement with the Yalta onion and he will give me his seeds.
In short, there are many plans. I'm afraid that even if I live a hundred years, I won't have time to complete everything.