Red Torpedo Tropea

Red Torpedo Tropea

  • Long-day specialty variety
  • Torpedo shaped, red, sweet, open pollinated
  • Size Potential: 6"
  • Storage Potential: 3 months
  • Days to Harvest: 110

This long-day onion comes from Tropea, the Calabrian town in Italy well-known for its exquisite cooking and locally grown red onions.

Price: $10.75

 

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The total price of your onion plant order will be determined at checkout. Pricing is based on the total number of bunches purchased (see chart to the left).

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Customer Reviews of Red Torpedo Tropea

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Tropea Torpedo Success 
posted by Richard Wick on 2008-11-14 17:52:42
Comments:
The better quality of your Tropea Torpedo Onions in 2008 became the most popular onion I offered for sale at the Watertown Farmers Market last summer. I sold out well before the season ended. Some onions grew to a far larger size than in previous years - some reached a length of over 7". Wonderful variety. I plan to at least double my planting of this one in 2009.
Red Torpedo 
posted by Bill Lellis on 2009-01-31 16:56:00
Comments:
Grown in northcentral PA. This is a really great cooking onion, but plants are variable year to year. Great onion in 2006; crop failure in 2007; grew very well in 2008 but many subdivisions within each bulb. Start eating early, they do not store past Christmas.
Healthy Onion 
posted by John Foster on 2009-08-17 14:45:08
Comments:
Tried torpedo for 1st time. Difficult growing year for many things in eastern MA. Torpedo was a good, moderate size (4-in long; 1.2-in dia) with few runts. Don't really like the thick necks which are persisting after harvest.
Red Tropea success 
posted by Dorothy Perri on 2009-11-10 12:28:51
Comments:
My husband's family is from southern Italy, and they grow this onion there. We have had excellent success growing them, and loving sharing them with friends.