Growing onions from an onion

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Over the past week I have been trying something new. I cut the root end of a store bought onion off and I am trying to grow new onions from it. I got the idea from something i saw on Pinterest a while back and so far, it seems to be working! I used the bulk of the onion in something i was making to eat, but i saved the root end and a little bit of "meat". From there i let it soak in a glass of water on a windowsill for a couple days. New roots formed quickly. I then planted it in a recently vacated pot I had laying around. And within 2 days a few sprouts seem to be growing out of it. This is all new to me and may not be going as well as i think it is, but from what i can tell, I have 3 more onions growing out of the wasted parts of one onion, sounds like a good deal to me! I'll let the sprouts keep growing and eventually separate them leaving a bit of root on each. Then plant them out in the garden, or in a pot indoors depending on the timeframe, to mature. I just thought this was a fun little experiment to try. So far so good. I'm only 6 days in and I already have signs of new life. Nothing like instant gratification. Have you ever grown onions, or any other plant from the scraps of another plant?