Propagation
Last year I grew some bedding dahlias from source , they flower nicely , although I should have dead headed them much more . Dahlias are tippy perennial , prone to bear a parky end from frost and cold if not protect . I might be able to get away with leaving them in the ground with a thick mulch on top as we ’re not in the Arctic north , but to be on the safe side I dug up the genus Tuber for overwintering after the first hoarfrost . As much as anything else I wanted to see what was need .
They ’ve been hole up in the shed , in a cardboard box seat full of compost and a coat of newspaper publisher .
I should probably wait till March is well underway to start them off , but I ’m keen to get some cuttings so I ’m getting on with it , hoping that the nursery is moderately snug now with the het up bench acting like a big storage hummer at night , must make a few point divergence overall .
I ’ve de - boxed them and checked them over for squidgy , potentially stinking persona , mostly they were fine , just 2 or 3 petty bit start to go over , they went in the ABA transit number . They are a peculiar looking clump , dahlia tubers . Vaguely alien . Funny to think that these dangly article started off less than 12 months ago as teeny semen .
I ’ve used the smallest mess in which the tubers fit snugly , some needed 3 litre pots , some just a tiny 7 centimeter pot . They are buried so that the remains of the stem is just at the airfoil of the compost .
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I have just used multipurpose compost , nothing fancy . At this sentence of year the tubers should just demand contact with the damp compost to get the growth outgrowth lead .
As I ’m doing this rather than I really should it could be several calendar week before I see any signal of life history . For now , I ’ve just about got room in the heated disseminator for the dahlia pots which hopefully will give them a nudge along , then I ’ll move them out onto unheated staging when they depart to show growth or when I need the space , whichever comes first !
I ’m hoping that they put up some early shoot over the next few week that I can use for cuttings and thus get more plants . Each genus Tuber should put on a few shoots that I can take and still plant the genus Tuber out when they ’re done . manifestly the cuttings consider this way produce more vigorous works with more efflorescence . This is how the show growers get their mega efflorescence , so I ’m told .
Box o’ compost.
[ update 27 - 03 - 17 . Note , if you require to take newspaper clipping , it ’s best to leave the top of the tuber well decipherable of the compost . This is so that the cuttings can be easily taken and you’re able to see what you ’re doing . I discovered this the hard way when trying to take cutting when the base was bury . See link just below for more details … . ]
I ’ll be back , with news on increment , and set out thecuttings .
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