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Need help diagnosing onion problems

10 years ago

Hello all,


I have three raised beds of onions that I started from seed back in January and transplanted in April. They were doing fantastic, with many leaves on each plant that were healthy. About two weeks ago or so the leaves started getting slightly pale in color, and some of the tips were starting to turn yellow - I figured this was a lack of nitrogen so I fertilized them with a 5-1-1 fish emulsion. About a week after I fertilized them two of the three beds started bulbing, but the yellow tips were still there and now starting to die back.

I have read that you should cease fertilizing onions once they start bulbing. I know onions are supposed to start dying back a bit when they are bulbing from what I read (is this true?) but I am concerned that too much of the foliage will die back before the bulbs get good size, as the are only maybe 1-1.5" in diameter right now.

I did a good deal of research on all of the possible diseases and I feel pretty confident in ruling most of them out, as I dug out one of the symptomatic bulbs to inspect it for any signs of pest or disease and couldn't find any. I did foliar spray them a few days with an epsom salt mixture to rule of magnesium deficiency per recommendation of a friend.

Below is a couple of pictures I took from a few days ago:


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