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Originally Posted by bower
I'm sure the grey shallots will always have a special place for gourmets, because of the subtle difference in taste. The shape is pretty too. But the other traits that distinguish shallots - multiplying, and being extra firm and long keeping, are most interesting to me, even if they are just multiplier onions.
I would think that producing seed regularly would interfere with production of bulbs.  As this seems to be an either/or way of using resources to reproduce.... Maybe there is some happy medium, where you get flowers and seeds often enough to cross breed them, but not too often to interfere with your crop? |
Non-flowering is a mix of selection and being multiplied vegetatively for generations (virus accumulation), specially the later. Once grown from seed, they flower easily as they start virus free. Only some bulbs flower, so you still get a crop.
More than medium, it's probably weather.