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| These flowers are so pretty. It has become my hobby in buying almost dead plants and flowers and bringing them back to life, and I must say its very fun and especially rewarding for the kids. Our motto is "all it needs is love" like the song.
anyways I picked up a very large Dahlia plant at Lowes, it was clearly still alive , the flowers where still nice and full with many buds not open yet. Lots of the leaves towards the bottom where very brown and crunchy, well of course it was in a container that was FAR to small. I brought it home and stuck it in the ground with some new dirt and compost, and pruned the leaves. It already looks loads better. I havent figured out where to put this plant yet, as I plan on getting more also. my question is, there are about 6 stalks sticking out with many flowers. Is this something that needs to be seperated? There was not tag in the pot so I dont know any specific type of Dahlia. |
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| No don't dig in there to separate it - the stalks are coming up from a potato-like tuber. You can't separate them at this point. In the fall when they die back after your first hard frost, you can lift the whole mass of tubers and clean/divide/store them. There are detailed instructions and pictures at dahlia.com or in the archives of this forum. You can increase the size of blooms by disbudding or disbranching - removing some of the buds or branches to put more energy toward the remaining buds, but that is something more usually done by those who want to take their flowers to a competition. I'd say keep it watered, and make sure you are using a fertilizer low in nitrogen, like a tomato fertilizer, bone meal, or I use Bulbtone. There are lots of opinions on this also, some people use Miracle-Gro for example, but most dahlia websites recommend using a fertilizer that is lower in N than P and K. Good for you, I hope you got a super deal on the price too! |
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