14 Top-Notch Onion Varieties
Check out this slideshow for more details on 14 onion varieties you need to know about from the nation’s leading seed breeders and distributors.
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Centerstone
Featuring a high percentage of single centers, Centerstone is a long day, early- to mid-season, yellow Spanish-type cross and produces excellent bulb size for high yields. It’s slow bolting and best for fresh and export markets and stores well under favorable conditions. Available from American Takii.
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Ruby
This red onion is dark red both internally and externally. Ruby Ring is a mid-season variety with hard, firm bulbs and durable skin making it ideal for the storage market. It features a high percentage of single centers and a strong growing habit. Available from American Takii.
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Warrior
Warrior grows quickly and matures early, producing a uniform crop of slender, crisp onion stalks that are easy to harvest and clean. Can’t get to your harvest? No worries as Warrior will hold up in the garden longer than similar varieties that were grown as comparisons in the trials. Available from Seeds By Design.
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Blush
This pink storage onion matures in 115 days. With a medium-pungent flavor, Blush is very easy to grow with excellent storage potential and makes jumbo-sized, blocky-globe bulbs with thick, rose-tinted copper skins. Foliage is vigorous, helping to ensure a good crop. Available from Bejo Seeds and Johnny's Selected Seeds.
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Dawson
A long-day yellow storage onion, Dawson matures in 110 days. It is best suited for production in the Eastern and Midwest U.S. It features upright tops with thin necks, exhibits, good heat tolerance, and has good long-term storage with good skin retention. Available from Bejo Seeds and Seedway.
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Pocono
Ponoco matures in 110 days and produces high yields. It is best suited for production in the Northeast. Ponoco is very uniform and round with a small neck and has a seven- to eight month
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Tucannon
A long day yellow, Tucannon has high resistance to pink root and intermediate resistance
to basal rot and is well suited for overhead or furrow irrigation. It matures in 114 to 116 days. This onion is best suited for production in the Pacific Northwest and offers six- to eight-month long-term storage performance as a full-skinned retail/fresh market onion. Available from Seminis. -
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Yukon
Yukon is a yellow, Spanish long day that has intermediate resistance to pink root. It matures 125 days from seed and112 from transplant. Yukon has wide adaptability where all Spanish long-day are grown. Other attributes include great storage potential, excellent firmness, sizes from colossal to jumbo, and it is grower friendly. Available from Sakata.
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Genesis
A large storage hybrid with high yield potential, Genesis has good tolerance to pink root and Fusarium and matures in 98 days. The variety is for early direct-seeding or transplant, features copper skin color, and is globe in shape. Available from Crookham Co. and Clifton Seed.
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Grand Perfection
Grand Perfection is a long-day yellow Spanish with intermediate resistance to pink root. Maturing in 125-plus days, it has high yield potential. Regions best suited for production include California’s Central Valley, Pacific Northwest Columbia Basin, Treasure Valley, Northern Colorado, and Utah. Other attributes of Grand Perfection are its excellent skin color and white interior, bulbs that are mostly tall-globe, vigorous tops and roots, and shanks are long and upright. This variety is said to be excellent for processing and fresh market bag. Available from American Takii.
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GVS-36290 F1
GVS 36290 F-1 is a short-day yellow onion with high tolerance to pink root, and tolerance to
Fusarium basel rot and thrips. It matures in 150 to 160 days from transplant. GVS 36290 stores for four months under proper conditions. Available from Golden Valley Seed. -
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Maximus
An eastern long-day yellow storage onion, Maximus has Intermediate resistance to pink root. It has high yield potential, especially out of storage and matures in 112 days. Regions best suited for production include the Eastern and Northwest U.S. This variety has an attractive dark-bronze skin and a uniform round shape. Available from ISI Sementi and Rispens Seeds.
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Montclair
A hybrid long day yellow, this onion has intermediate resistance to basal rot and pink root.
It is best suited for production in areas in New York, Midwest, and Southern Ontario, Canada
Montclair produces large, globe-shaped bulbs with heavy, dark-colored skin and has excellent
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Purple Haze
Purple Haze is a long day red onion with high tolerance to bolting and pink root. It has good
tolerance to Fusarium. Maturing in 122 days, it has good yield potential and is adaptable to numerous regions. Purple Haze can be mechanically harvested and has long storage potential.
Available from Crookham Co.
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Centerstone
Ruby
Warrior
Blush
Dawson
Pocono
Tucannon
Yukon
Genesis
Grand Perfection
GVS-36290 F1
Maximus
Montclair
Purple Haze
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Rosemary Gordon is editor of American Vegetable Grower, a Meister Media Worldwide publication. See all author stories here.