Not that I'm getting impatient but...

I originally posted this about 2 weeks ago and have yet to get a response. Surely someone has some thoughts to share--assuring or otherwise.

Where exactly are you located. Michigan I am assuming by your GW name. Adding that to your user profile will help people answer your question. You also didn't say exactly when you planted them. Very late is hard to define.

That being said, since onions are day length sensitive the length of daylight will trigger bulbing at the same time no matter when the plants were put out or what size they are. The key is to get as many large leaves as possible before that time. If the plant size is not big enough you won't get much of a bulb. Candy is an intermediate day onion and Copra is a borderline long day/intermediate day and both types should have started bulbing up a few weeks ago. Here in Missouri my Candy are pretty much done but some of them haven't fallen over yet. Copra is somewhat later but they too should be well into bulbing up by now. Can't give you much advise on the reds but if one of them is Redwing they are a true long day onion that shouldn't start to bulb until about the summer solstice or maybe a little earlier.

Thanks, LoneJack for your response. I am in zone 6b in Southwest Ohio. The onion starts were planted May 17, about two months later than normal. I've planted these varieties for several years, so I know that they will do well here, and have always had a decent yield. And, yes, Redwing is one of the red varieties.

I was expecting the answer you gave and must now try to figure out how to shift the summer solstice. (Good luck on that one.) Maybe some daylight lamps in the garden would work. Or just be prepared for small bulbs.

Thanks, Dutch. I was beside myself that we couldn't get the onions in sooner. I had the plants but due to tiller issues I was not able to work up the ground. When I was last in the garden I went over to check on the onions and found them beginning to bulb. If only I was able to change the length of the day...

The garden has been challenging the last three years. 2015 was so wet that we were mired in mud trying to harvest the garlic and onions and just gave up, leaving garlic to be harvested but we were unable to find it (we'd let it go too long and the tops were separated from the bulbs. Last year we planted out he garden and then a female groundhog decided to den near the garden and delivered three pups. The four of them did a number on most everything in the garden except onions, garlic, tomatoes, and peppers (the deer got the tomatoes and peppers.) Thankfully a near by hawk developed a taste for groundhog. Truthfully, all we got was onions and garlic. Sprinkle in some health issues and a blown engine on my tiller and I got a late start this year. We used to have about a 4000 SF garden but have cut it back to about 1/3 of that. Right now the garden looks about as nice as it ever has. If we can keep the weeds under control, maybe next year we'll make the garden a little bigger. :-)

LOL

I am lucky if I have 400 square feet for garden. This past spring health problems hit me pretty hard right when I should have been in the garden, and I came out of the hospital weak as a kitten. So this year, now that I have recovered completely, my gardening is following the garlic harvest and we shall see if I can grow some fall crops. I am pretty sure I am going to have some real nice daikons; they've been in a while and are growing real well. It looks like the sweet potatoes are starting to take off this year too. Pretty much everything else was either planted last fall or I am just getting around to it.