I bought a bundle of onion starts last year from Lowes. Only about a third of them were a pencil thick so those made it into the garden. The others were planted off in a corner somewhere for spring onions in salads and such. Well I must not have pulled them all because I had a large onion shoot come up about a month ago. Three shoots from one bulb. I split it up into three separate plants and I have tried re-planting them as I would a start. They are all over a pencil in thickness. Will these produce an onion each in their second year? Two of them tried to put a flower that I pinched right away. Am I just doomed to a bolting plant for the second year?