Question about trying to regrow green onions from scraps

I read online you could just stick the white ends of green onions in water and they'd regrow. Did that with a bunch from Kroger last week, put them on my windowsill. They grew maybe an inch then just got slimy and smelled bad after 5 days. Did I do something wrong or is that whole hack just overblown?

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hugomurray23d ago

...and that's exactly what happened to me the first time too, but I figured out you gotta change the water every single day (like religiously) or else they turn into a science experiment. Also, I learned the hard way that if you cut the green part too close to the white root base, it takes way longer to regrow, so leave like an inch of the green attached. One batch I forgot about in the back of the fridge for two weeks actually did better than the windowsill ones, probably because it was cooler and less slime-prone.

hannahm3923d ago

Gave up on that hack after my third slimy batch and called myself a plant murderer in a therapy joke. The water changing trick is real though, I kept thinking "eh it'll be fine for one more day" and bam, stink bomb. Also learned the hard way that dumping tap water with chlorine in it just makes the onions mad, let it sit out for a day first. My best success came from forgetting about a set in the back of the fridge for a week, they looked happier than anything I babied on the counter. So yeah, overblown unless you treat it like a science project with daily water swaps and proper cuts.