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How to treat onion plants having purple blotch?

 
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Hey everyone,
I am facing an issue with an onion plant which has grown 5 foot tall. I bought a variety
of vegetable seeds and all are a success but my onion plant is having purple blotch.
I am unable to figure out how to treat it.
Please help me with your solutions and also what method would be effective at this point to protect my plant.
 
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Can you show us a picture? Also, what part of the world are you gardening in? Sometimes a treatment is different in differing climates.
 
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I like Joylynn's suggestion.

Purple blotch sounds like something fungal so the recipes in this thread may help:

https://permies.com/t/93537/toxic-Fungicide
 
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or lack of potassium in soil?
 
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