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Sun, Jun 29, 14 at 12:56
| Hi! I'm new to this forum & hope someone can help me! My sister & I started growing dahlias last year & fell in love with them! We each have about 25 varieties this year. My sister is growing hers exclusively in pots. She called me yesterday very upset. She checked her dahlias in the morning & they all looked great. Then about 6 hours later she checked on them again & one of her Thomas Edison plants was knocked completely over. It got a late start, so it was only about 6" tall. She dug it up & saw that the tuber was completely hollow. It was not rotten. She said squeezed & it was just empty. There was no liquid or mushiness to it. The plant was growing normal right up until it fell over (although it took much longer for a bud to sprout). Does anyone know what could have caused this? Could it be insects? |
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- Posted by morpheuspa 7A (My Page) on Sun, Jun 29, 14 at 15:07
| Dahlia tuber are edible (even by us, they taste like watercress but may have a pleasant or unpleasant flavor depending on the variety). It's possible something nibbled at it. Decay is unlikely as it would most likely have gone mushy. From the late start, maybe it was a weak tuber that spent its energy on a late and small plant but couldn't sustain the growth past a very minor initial spurt? It's probably too late now, but you can sometimes re-root a cutting from a problem dahlia and rescue a plant from it. The first year will be slow and mostly devoted to tuber development, but you might get lucky and have some flowers from it late in the season. |
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