I honestly have no clue I meant to put light they need. But just saying in the spring when many stores here start selling onion sets they always have walla walla in their selection.

Walla Walla will grow here in middle Georgia (8a) if the weather cooperates. We have enough daylight hours in late June, but unfortunately onions don't like triple digit temps which start at about the same time. If the feed and seed stores sell the plants I am sure some folks are successful. It is a long day onion but at the low end of daylight requirements. This is
a similar Sweet Spanish (Golden Grande). I prefer growing short day onions in winter. Harvest in May and use their space for summer crops. The long day types take up most of the summer, But it is nice to know I can grow them.

With Lubbock's altitude of 3200+ ft. in the high plains, I wonder if Elishah would be able to successfully grow onions thru winter there. I think the winters might be a little more severe than most of Texas.

They will not tolerant ground freeze ever as little as one inch. Really need a full zone 8 for overwintering.

Usually our winters are just cold with some light snow here and there. It's only about mid December that it snows enough to stay more then a day. But sometime we get these storms where it rains but it's cold enough to form ice so it's raining ice and water and then everything is frozen the next day

I live about 40 miles out of Lubbock. I've grown Walla Walla successfully by planting from seed in late September/early October. I always planted a nursery row very thickly and then transplanted the survivors to their proper spacing in late February/ early March. Walla Walla always matured nicely with no problems in late July-mid August. Made very big onions. However, they didn't keep well and like other long day types I've grown they tended to mature somewhat irregularly-not all at once. The most successful overwintering onion for me was Desert Sunrise from Johnny's, but it doesn't seem to be available any longer.

Now I order transplants from Dixondale for late February delivery. Candy, Superstar, and Red River consistently produce big onions and sometimes store very well. Short day onions transplanted in late February/early March tend to produce fairly small onions, but I always get some Southern Belle for an early harvested onion-usually mid-June.

Give it a try.

Desert Sunrise is available from Territorial Seeds. It is a superb onion and a reliable overwintering onion in the Lubbock area from seeding outdoors at this time of year.

Desert Sunrise is an excellent short day red onion. Of course if you are successful with it, you can grow any of short day winter onions. I grow mostly varieties developed by D. Palmer ( Yuma ) or NuMex ( New Mexico State)