I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but the "shallots" from China that I bought at DoBond Market and that I suspect might be "potato onions" ( a sub-species of shallots that multiplies underground), and that I planted barely a month ago in a Water Wise Container Garden as single individual bulbs, are already seeming to be replicating! Normal shallots are taller than wide....potato onions are flattened globes wider than tall. Fingers crossed as the one I ate had pungent, in-your-face onion flavor. John