Onions, Sweet Maui, Vidalia, Walla Walla

Maui onions are grown, not surprisingly, in Maui, Hawaii. Like the Vidalias, they are a Yellow Granex type hybrid. When cultivated in Hawaii, the soil and weather conditions on the island produce an onion that is low in bite, high in sugar and moisture; when planted elsewhere, the results are more like common yellow onions. The earliest sweet onion marketed, it may appear in markets, primarily on the West Coast, from April or May through June. The Maui is usually pearly-pale and flattened; but it may also be yellowish and globose or teardrop-shaped.