I'm sorry to hear it happened, and it doesn't make sense to me unless you planted when the nights were still really, really cold?

I haven't had any bolt, but lost a lot shortly after planting....our ground stayed too wet for too long...and then it snowed in March. I was hoping that having them in a raised bed would keep them from drowning but the ground didn't dry out for 6-8 weeks and they couldn't take it.

Looks like some of us are having a bad onion year.

Quailhunter, I have the same problem, I planted 1015Y also. I think I may have planted too early, or too large of a plant.

Larry

Quailhunter,
The onions I received from Dixondale was all sizes also. I waited almost 2 weeks I think to plant the last of them. Now worried if the temps get to what some are saying they might I might have a bunch bolt. Because they have been growing well. So sure many if not most are larger than a #2 pencil. Nothing I can do but put down mulch tomorrow night and see what happens. One is saying 40 degrees. Another has lowered theirs now to 36 the last I checked. Of course they were 8 degrees off yesterday morning. So hoping for 40. Then 89 degrees for a high Wed. What a roller coaster. After Monday night a lot of my plants are going to the cold frames to live with the plants I started in them. And they had better toughen up the way things have been going this spring. I did check soil temp in the garden and even with the cold temps it was 64 degrees. So if the nights would decide to stay warm I could plant a lot more. Jay

After reading the previous thread on bolting, I went out and checked my onions, which I hadn't looked at for a few days. I don't know the varieties I planted. Just bought a bundle of reds and a bundle of yellows at the local feed store. To my dismay most of the reds were bolting. None of the yellow were. Left a few to flower as Dawn suggested and pulled the rest to eat soon. I am disappointed though. I usually have onions hanging on the porch or stored under a bed for several months each year. But not this year.

Well, I planted in early March. Overall, I would say the weather has been more consistent than last year for me. I didn't have a single onion bolt last year.

My onions did get snowed on, but they did last year also. Go figure. I pulled about a dozen of the yellows and reds yesterday. Keeping my fingers crossed that I won't lose many more. We'll see.

What we have left...and that's from 3 separte plantings, haven't as yet bolted. I lost almost all of 6 bunches I ordered from Dixondale. I replaced them with Dixondale onions that I bought at our local K&K. So far, so good. Picked up the last bunch on a whim at HD - they're "bonnies" sweet. I think it's just not going to be a good onion year, but we can't have it all. My chickasaw plums and dewberries are loaded!