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Oncrop Product Highlights

  • Brand: Oncrop Agro Sciences (Home-&-Garden Series)

  • Variety: Onion Red / Pyaz (Allium cepa)

  • Pungent & Flavorful Bulbs: Produces firm, medium to large, deep-red bulbs with tight, glossy skin and a crisp, pungent flavor. Essential for everyday Indian cooking, salads, gravies, tadka, and chutneys.

  • Versatile & Productive Choice: Well-suited for shallow terrace containers (wide pots or grow bags with 8–10 inches depth), raised garden beds, and backyard plots.

  • Make in India: 100% home-grown seed stock conditioned for tropical and sub-tropical Indian climate conditions.

Technical Specifications

Feature Details
Scientific Name Allium cepa
Category Vegetable Seeds / Home Garden
Sowing Season Best from October to December (winter crop) and June to July (monsoon crop).
Sunlight Full Sun (Requires 6–8 hours of direct, unfiltered sunlight).
Germination Rate 80%+ tested quality
Germination Time 6 to 12 days
Maturity / First Harvest 100 to 120 days after transplanting (green tops can be harvested early in 45–60 days).

Planting & Care Instructions

  1. Soil Preparation: Requires light, loose, well-draining sandy-loam soil free from stones to allow easy bulb expansion. Potting mix: fine garden soil, cocopeat, and compost or vermicompost in equal parts. Maintain soil pH between 6.0 and 7.0.

  2. Sowing: Sow seeds 0.5 cm ($\frac{1}{4}$ inch) deep in seedling trays or nursery beds. Keep the soil lightly moist in a bright area until seedlings sprout.

  3. Watering: Water moderately to maintain light soil moisture. Avoid overwatering or stagnant water, as excessive wetness causes bulb rot. Reduce watering significantly when foliage begins to yellow and dry up near harvest.

  4. Spacing & Care: Transplant 6–8 week old seedlings (when stems are pencil-thick) into final beds or wide containers, keeping 4 to 6 inches (10–15 cm) spacing between plants. Feed with balanced organic manure rich in potassium and phosphorus every 3 weeks to encourage bulb formation. Keep beds weed-free. Spray neem oil solution to protect against thrips and leaf miners.

Why Choose Oncrop Onion Red?

  • Kitchen Staple Harvest: Yields reliable, pungent red onions straight from your garden for daily culinary needs.

  • Dual-Purpose Crop: Harvest fresh green onion tops (spring onions) early or let bulbs mature for extended kitchen storage.

  • Space-Efficient Container Growing: Ideal for urban terrace gardens using shallow, wide grow bags or rectangular planter boxes.

How To Plant: Plant the sets, pointy side up, 2 inches deep in the soil. Space them 6-inches apart in rows 1 foot apart. Shallot bulbs have a similar look and feel as sets and are planted the same distance apart.

Added Benefits: Some of the health benefits of onions reliving includes the common cold, asthma, bacterial infections, respiratory problems, angina, and cough. Onions are also known to repel bloodthirsty insects.

Tips: onions do not need consistent watering if mulch is used. About one inch of water per week (including rain water) is sufficient. If you want sweeter onions, water more.