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Thu, Apr 24, 08 at 19:50
| I have not been able to take a single successful cutting from my 4 Sayonara tubers. Every one of my other 47 varieties have given me at least a couple, but the Sayonara cuttings simply droop over and die. I have tried them in several soil types, with and without rooting hormone, moist soil and slightly damp...nothing seems to work.
Does anyone know if this particular variety is somehow different? Cheers,
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- Posted by dahliagardener (My Page) on Fri, Apr 25, 08 at 23:48
| Don't know about that particular dahlia-- I think they can all be grown from cuttings-- but this is worth a try. I learned this method from plantlady2 & have never had a cutting not root. Take a small plastic container- about 2" deep & 1-2" wide, slice a few cuts in the bottom & fill with sterile playground sand. Put the small container into a larger container & add about 1" of water to the larger container. Now you have a small container of wet sand (it takes up the water) inside a larger container that has water in it. Do your cutting, dip it in rooting hormone, poke a hole in the wet sand, put in the cutting & firm the sand up around it. The cuttings done this way don't need any misting or any fussing around with- just make sure the outside container always has water in it so the sand doesn't dry out. When you get roots then transplant it into a pot with potting soil in it. You are basically growing the cutting in water- hydroponically- the sand just keeps the cutting from falling over. & before anyone says "they will rot"-- they don't. You can also get cuttings to start by just putting them in water but then they fall around & are a pain in the butt to keep from falling out of the container. Be sure you have removed at least one set of leaves & have the node under the sand- just as you would if you were doing a cutting & putting it into soil. Ellie |
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