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Posted by honnat 4 MN (My Page) on
Tue, May 18, 10 at 15:43

I'm calling this my "practice" year to see if I want to enter some blooms in a competition. I'm looking for some good information on how to "time" blooms so that I've got some blooms that peak on a certain date. I'm still new to all the terminology ("topping, pinching, double topping etc. etc.) I need some basic stuff. Anyone know a good resource?

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This might be too much, or might give you a starting point for your questions. If nothing else, use the Contact button at the MDS site and see if they can hook you up with a mentor to give you more info, or maybe even find a dahlia fiend in your area where you could get hands-on demonstrations and timing tips. Dahlia Societies are wonderful resources I think go largely untapped by the public.

Good luck on your possible venture into showing.

Here is a link that might be useful: Timing Blooms by MN Dahlia Society

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Thanks. I actually already had read that article. I went to a dahlia show last year in MN and the guy that wrote it won just about all the categories!! So, i'm going to try and piece together his advice; but the article reads a bit random. Anyone on here have good advice on this topic?

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