2Lane Cruzer, You are in a similar situation to me----sort of. I am on the southern end of the growing zone for long day onions. My days just don't get long enough to grow really huge long day onions. I can grow them OK but everything must be perfect as far as planting timing, fertilizer, weeding, etc. If I plant them late because of bad weather and the garden isn't ready, they won't have enough time to make good top growth, thus a smaller onion. Each leaf on an onion = 1 onion ring. Intermediate day onions aren't so sensitive to that long day or short day length need. Where you are in Oklahoma, you can't get the short day onions planted early enough in the season, because of weather conditions, to get big top growth before the days get too long to continue the bulbing process. Your onions start to bulb, but stop because the days become too long. You can grow really nice green onions because the Texas 10/15 will continue to grow, but only tops, small bulbs. Even though I'm up North, I grow 1 bunch of White Bermuda (short day) every year as green onions because they never bulb beyond about an inch or two, but produce beautiful green tops. I also grow the intermediate day onion "Candy" and get many softball sized onions every year. I use "nitrate of Soda" 16-0-0 during the growing season for onion fertilizer and 10-10-10 during initial ground prep, but you can use whatever you have available in your area. Just remember, a balanced fertilizer before planting and a high nitrogen fertilizer to encourage top growth up until they start to bulb. A soil test will help with fertilizer requirements. Be careful with the nitrogen, you don't want to over fertilize especially if you use some kind of slow release type. Water well when they start and continue to bulb, but stop as they approach maturity and the tops BEGIN to fall over. Onions are easy once you have it figured out. Good luck! Now, about bugs and disease! ---------Oh never mind.