How many Dahlia shoots from a tuber are too many in a pot?
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Starting dahlia tubers in pots.
Comments (14)Hey Alyrics! Nice to see you. I use the baggie thing mostly to verify there's a viable eye, assuring a chance at a plant in your future. You can leave the tuber in the baggie- they will root up and grow nicely if they have an eye, but it can be a little tricky getting them out. If you get growth, you can transplant to a milk carton, a flat, a pot or whatever or cut the baggie open when ready to plant and set it in its nice dahlia nest in the garden or pot. Keep the bag tops open and monitor the moisture. I've lost some to too much and too little moisture in the baggies (which sounds like poor rocky Otto's Thrill there) What is it with you and poor Otto's!??? You could change your name to Otto Slayer, Otto Resuscitator, Otto Dehydrator. LOL I really miss that flower all of a sudden! Deer have never ever taken so much as a leaf off my dahlias and they are unprotected by fences or Scarecrows etc. Moles dig holes, voles and mice follow, as Plantlady taught me, and they turn your tubers into nibbling fastfood, but they have never killed any plant for me. Coyotes are creepy aren't they? They don't hurt dahlias but are creepy. Gophers I don't know about. Stakes: wood, green metal flanged fence posts, rebar, inverted tomato cages or other. I guess for longevity, I'd go with metal. Wood stakes are cheap and have lasted in our wet climate many years, but they do rot and break, sometimes at inconvenient times. Rebar is sturdy but dangerous unless tall and I'm remembering that helpful hint about kids'play balls to put atop them. Thanks poster who said that :) Fence posts are extra sturdy and work really well. I put them a bit further away from the tubers to allow for new tubers to grow close to the flanges that hold the post in the ground. Just a few inches will do. I have since learned: dig first, pull flanged fencepost later. Worked like a charm. Here is an eyeless tuber. It will never produce a plant. There is no eye, I could wait until December for one to form: it's simply not there. Wait til you see the roots. Here are the roots, straight out of the baggie: no eye, no plant. But plenty of wonderful roots going nowhere. I can't help you with planting out in Ohio but the link might lead you to something. Don't be a stranger Alyrics. We'll need a status report on Otto's Thrill as time goes by! Annie Here is a link that might be useful: Ohio Dahlia info...See MoreIs it OK to start many dahlias in pots then transplant later?
Comments (9)If you used a potting soil with fertilizer in it, do you really need to add more now? Do the leaves show signs of lacking fertilizer? Out of several hundred, 2 of mine have pale yellowish leaves and all the rest look fine and healthy. I dosed those two today with a balanced fertilizer. Learn to look at your plants and see what they are telling you. Don't buy into the hype over fertilizers. I only fertilize mine when I plant them out in the garden by mixing alfalfa pellets, compost and organic tomato fertilizer into the soil I plant them into. Mostly depends on the brand of potting mix you use and what is in it....See MoreToo Many Tubers ) Fewer Blooms
Comments (6)Anna, ahem I live in a northern climate! LOL! I have some dahlias that I have been planting for years....they come out of the ground in a huge root ball in the fall.....really huge ball of tangled tubers. What I do...and I know some of you will totally freak about this but.....I slam it down on the ground, it breaks it up in smaller pieces that are more manageable. There are so many of this variety....I just toss the extras and damaged tubers in the compost pile. Now I did that last fall.....but the clumps are still large. So after reading on here and recieving my mail order dahlias..which were just single tubers...I plan to take one clump of these and divide it up small, maybe even single tubers, to see if I get more flowers, this year. I'll be able to respond to this more accurately next fall, after this little experiment. Can you manage to get one or two single tubers off the clump that have eyes..and maybe plant the rest as a clump. Then we can compare notes in the fall. Try doing a search on here.....this is where I got the info quite a while ago, not sure what thread now. Happy gardening, Sierra...See MoreDahlia tubers in potting soil.
Comments (10)As far as whether to separate them ... now that you already have them in vermiculite, it's probably best to wait until spring. Then you can separate them if you want. But when you separate, you have to make sure there's a piece of the crown (the bottom of the stem) with at least one eye on it, attached to each tuber. "They" say that it's easier to see the eyes in the spring. If you do a google search on dahlia tubers, you'll find tons of different ways of dividing and storing. The one from your local Dahlia society might be best for you. I felt more confident after watching a bunch of videos on youtube of people dividing them. That is to say, more confident ... but still not terribly confident! I divided mine in the fall (today!) because I don't have a cool place to store them other than my fridge. I'm hoping I got them divided right!...See Moregetgoing100_7b_nj
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