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- Posted by vikingcraftsman 6/7LINY (My Page) on Tue, Jul 15, 08 at 23:22
Thanks here is another view.  |
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- Posted by plantlady2008 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 16, 08 at 2:54
Just for laughs- here I am with an Emory Paul we grew a few years ago. We entered it in the "People's Choice" at a dahlia show & won. We put it in a BIG pot of water!  |
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- Posted by sturgeonguy 5a ON (My Page) on Wed, Jul 16, 08 at 8:32
| A new classification of size, not Dinner Plate, but Dinner Platter! Wow!! Cheers, |
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- Posted by vikingcraftsman 6/7LINY (My Page) on Wed, Jul 16, 08 at 14:55
| I have been teasing the neighbors about there punny little flowers. I have been humbled plantlady. Any suggestions on how to make mine bigger? |
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- Posted by plantlady2008 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 17, 08 at 23:57
| To start with, vikingcraftsman-- grow AA sized dahlias. If you get good tubers from someone who specializes in the big ones then you'll grow AA sized blooms with just some fertilizer at planting & once again in July. You have to disbud & sometimes disbranch as well, though we don't do much of the latter. Some hard-core growers only grow the AA's 4 up. We usually grow them 6-10 up & still get big blooms. You can't make a small dahlia get more than about a half size bigger so you have to start with the ones that are big to begin with- like Emory Paul, Zorro, Wyn's Conquistador, Sir Alfred Ramsey, Ivory Palaces, etc. How about this one-- it's still a seedling- we haven't introduced it yet so it goes by it's number-- 06-01 one of it's blooms was 17" across & 14" deep! It went on to get 8 more blooms on this plant & they were all HUGE. 
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| PlantLady2008 Please tell me what you mean EXACTLY by the terms 4 Up and 6-10 Up. I have seen the term used by people selling dahlias from abroad. I inquired but never received an answer. Your help is app- reciated. I am told that it takes a long time for Emory Paul to develop. In my zone I would probably have to start it early indoors.
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- Posted by sturgeonguy 5a ON (My Page) on Wed, Jul 23, 08 at 0:17
| Vikingcraftsman, To get an Emory Paul at the date you had your bloom is, well, amazing. Clearly it was started early. I started Lemon Tarts early (e.g. Jan 15) and they still didn't bloom until last week. To get something that big to bloom at this time means you put some effort. So, you wanna share? When did you take the tubers out, what kind of light, etc... I'm convinced my lighting sucked, so I'm looking for some validation...;-] I know you put them into full sun early in your greenhouse, but Emory Paul (and any AA) needed more than just that?? Cheers, |
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- Posted by sturgeonguy 5a ON (My Page) on Wed, Jul 23, 08 at 0:20
| PlantLady2008, What does one have to do to qualify for your beta program? I'd love such a flower, even if it didn't bloom until September! Cheers, |
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- Posted by vikingcraftsman 6/7LINY (My Page) on Wed, Jul 23, 08 at 16:46
| I will comfirm it is a light problem. In the past I had a hard time getting things going. I went on the growing under lights forum and read new bulbs in the set up. I went to home depoe and bought a case of floresent bulbs. It worked well to get the tubers started. |
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| Plantlady2008, How do you keep the Emory Paul(EP) from wilting? I have an EP also, but it is not as huge as yours. Mine is in a pot and this year flowered in early June. If you ever introduce your seedling 0601 I would like to obtain one. I also have a Big Wow which flowered more early this year. I don't have pictures because I don't know how to download from my cellphone, lol. |
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- Posted by plantlady2008 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 25, 08 at 15:34
| fleur guy-- 6 up or 10 up or however-up means that's the number of blooms you allow on a plant for the whole season. In England the hard-core growers keep the AA's- or Giants as they're known over there to 4-up... 4 blooms per plant per year. They grow upwards of a hundred of a single cultivar so they can get blooms enough for a show. We have found that with some of our giants we can grow them 10 or so up & still have a giant bloom, but some of the older cultivars don't reach size unless you force them to by disbudding & debranching. Sturgeonguy- that Emory Paul pict. was taken about 13 years ago. The tuber was just planted in the garden in full sun. It had to have been about the middle of Sept. when we got the bloom as we entered it in the Whatcom Dahlia Society show which is pretty much always the 2nd weekend in Sept. It wasn't started indoors or anything like that-- we didn't even have a greenhouse at that time. The problem we had with Emory Paul was that it got later & later in the season before we got a bloom or 2 off of it & it's a mule-- can't get seed from it at all -- so we stopped growing it when we got really serious about hybridizing dahlias. Wish it had co-operated more as it would have been great it get some of that size into our breeding program! amaryllis- we put the Emory Paul bloom into a bucket full of water & floral foam to enter it in the show. They don't wilt in the garden if you keep them well watered.
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