Anyone? You guys use 5-1-1 or gritty mix for onion seedlings? What do you use to start your seeds in? Al, do you start veggie seedlings? If so, what do you use?

I'm not concerned with the plants growing, im concerned about seperating the fine, fragile, tangled onion roots. I know people start onions this way all the time in soft peat mediums, but how would the fragile roots fair with the rough bark comes seperating them?

I just use peat-based commercial potting soil.

To separate the plants, take the whole bundle out of the pot cell, potting soil and all, and gently swirl the roots in a bucket of water, washing out the soil. When they're still wet, gently pull the plants apart. You'll break a few roots, but not very many.

You'd want to plant them out pretty quickly - once the roots dry out, they're toast. I keep the plants wrapped up in damp paper towel as I'm setting them out.