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Wed, Apr 16, 14 at 22:32
| hi! ive researched high and low for an answer too my question, i think im reading too much and confusing myself . I have dahlia tubers that are only now starting too eye up. I plan to plant them in the middle of may and some of them at the beginning of the month in a hoop house. Can I still take cuttings now from these tubers that are only starting to eye up? They'll need ten days I think before the shoots are 3 inches all. I heard that a cutting taken this late may not produce flowers and I would be better off just planting them out in mid may...but i want more plants!! I would appreciate any advice very very much. Thank you Calida |
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| I take cuttings when the shoots are 2 inches tall. They take about 12 days to root well and can be planted in the ground after about 21 days. Tubers vary tremendously in how long they take to put out two inch long sprouts. Some do so while in storage and others take a couple of weeks of sitting in warm pots under lights. If you plant a rooted cutting in the ground at the same time as you plant a tuber in the ground, the rooted cutting will bloom 2 to 3 weeks earlier than the tuber. So, long story short, you probably have some time to take some cuttings and you will definitely have lots of flowers from the cuttings. I grow over 1000 dahlia plants from cuttings each year. |
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