3,226 Garden Web Discussions | Dahlias
When you say 'dead tubers' does that mean they're shriveled dry, rubbery, or rotten? If not, you could certainly put the tubers or clumps covered shallowly with barely damp soil, in sun, and see if that encourages sprouts. Some take a long time to show up, but this is pretty late not to see some signs of life.
I'd try that, before giving up completely.
http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/thrips.pdf
Check out the site above. Your problem may be thrips. At first I thought fungal disease but the leaves wouldn't be as healthy as they are.
I can not give you any specific advise, but I do recommend that you go to the bottom of this page and click on the number 2 which will give you the next set of 30 messages. The third message down is "Dahlia Information" by me, corgicorner. This will lead you to information on the American Dahlia Society site, and I do recommend that you download it and read it, and keep it for future use. It is an excellent aarticle from a reliable source.
I hope you become more acquainted with dahlias, and get to enjoy them, and share them with others.
It is raining today so I was thinking of you jroot. There is nothing more depressing than to have the drabness go on and on and on. There is so much work to be done this time of year. Now I live in MA. so we needed the rain, but I hope you have finally got some good weather. What do all the people in your area do with the high rental fees, when it rains. Not good
Yeah, I should know better...although after hearing "rain" & "thunderstorms" in the forecast for over a week I got a little excited!
Finally woke up to the much needed rain this morning though! Of course this came after I finally broke down and chased the sprinklers around yesterday, therefore putting off collecting flowers to press until today because they were wet. Well, now they are most definitely too wet!
My house should love me by the end of the day, since I must now keep warm by doing housework! Nothing better than having the doors flung wide open, with the rain as my stereo while I scrub everything down!
There are various hardiness zone maps out there. The link below is to one.
You are definitely in the have-to-dig zone in Vermont and have done the right thing by digging and storing each year.
Here is a link that might be useful: hardiness zone map for NE U.S.
I'm almost psoitive I have 5 new growths but I'm curious, do Dahlias grow as single leaves from the main stem or can they grow many leaves from the main stem? I know that I have two growing single leaf and I'm not too sure if the plants sprouting multiple leaf from main stem are Dahlias also, however the main stem and leaves look very much alike.
loswan, they usually have opposing leaf pairs on either side of the stalk/s that emerge from the tuber, clump, or cutting. Leaf nodes will give rise to laterals right at the stalk junction and send out branches from which your flowers will come.
I'd let your leaves go on to develop a bit and see if they are truly dahlias or something else.
Double Trouble does look like a very good possibility.
Here is a link that might be useful: Photography and Gardening blog
Swan Island Dahlias sell Double Trouble in a collection. A
Here is a link that might be useful: Collection
Hi there, actually Dahlia's need LOW nitrogen fertilizer. I don't know what to tell you to do. I will leave that to someone else on the forum. You can go to the site
www.dahlias.net to read more about growing dahlias.Look under care and culture.
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Hello mycubes,
if you bought it as a plant, it could have been treated to force it in early blooming. If you pinch out the flowers and buds it is very likely to grow somewhat taller. So you have a proper border Dahlia in the end.
If you want height, buy only named cultivars. Their label should tell you what height/size to expect.Most of the Cactus- and decorativ types grow easily 3 feet and more.
Have a great Dahlia summer
cheers, Lin
dahlia 45. If you are looking for information on growing dahlias, go to either one or both of the postings above by "corgicorner" that say LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ! ! ! ! or a similar posting with ? ? ? ? ? . This will lead you to the article which you should download and keep for further information and use. Good Luck.
I agree with whatever Jroot says as he lives in Canada and is far more astute on the particulars of your latitudes. I had a few dahlias holding on an open front porch in pots, all up several inches, and even without frost warnings I moved them under a bench and draped a towel over the bench (placed next to the house) to give the dahlias a little cover on a chilly night. Better safe than sorry.
I hope your days and nights soon warm beyond frost warnings in the land of our neighbors to the north. Northeast in your case!
It would be interesting to see a thermal image of the variations in temps next to a house, a foundation, a rock wall vs out in the open as a night progressed during these cool spring weeks.
I share your frustration--I have never had trouble with squirrels like this year. Here is what I have done:
Bot and sprayed "RO-PEL. I spray in the evening because I do not want the squirrels to see me doing the spraying. I have no idea why the contents work, but I admit the next morning there was not a squirrel in sight. However, as the day wore on they did return. It has certainly helped.
Deer Off Receipe: from letters from readers in Backyard Magazine. This has proven very helpful with squirrels. Beat together 1 eqq, 1/2 cup of milk,and 1 Tablespoonful of cooking oil. Add 1 tablespoonful of dish soap. then add enough water to make a gallon of liquid. NEVER SPRAY "DRY" PLANTS. Spray plants every two weeks or after rain. DO NOT SPRAY ON EDIBLES. Store any left over material in a closed jar.
NOW MY SUGGESTIONS: To the above mixture, add 3 teaspoons of garlic, and 3 teaspoons of cayenne pepper. I have tried this, and am having excellent results deterring squirrels. WARNING: THIS LIQUID CONCOCTION HAS A VERY STRONG ODOR. MIX WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN.
I have heard of adding mint to the mixture, and, I have also heard of adding mint plants in and arround your flowers but have not tried either. Another person suggested adding crushed Red Pepper in and around the plants. I will try this shortly.
I wish you every success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you try it, I'd like to hear how you made out. In your return message to me, in the subject area, kindly add the word "GardenWebber". This will keep your e-mail to me out of my junk pile. THANK YOU.
Love that squirrely photo of yours Jroot. We feed our squirrels all year, so perhaps that keeps them out of the dahlia beds.
I wonder if you would encourage re-emergence of the eye/s by gently digging up the broken dahlia and cutting off the broken hollow stem just above the tuber. I've done that and the plant went on to grow just fine. I just don't like the idea of a hollow stem hanging out there for anything to crawl or drip into.
Let us know how it turns out.
You might try Riverdance a cheerful red anemone with lots of early blooms. It gets taller than 3.5' for me though, and is a very broad plant that would require a strong stake for sure.
Raz Ma Taz is a small (
Nescio is also 3' or less and early to bloom. You can always try to get a jumpstart on your season by starting in pots.
Good luck!
Wow, those look great Poochella! THANKS!