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Help!! My Dahlia tubers are going soft on me!!

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Posted by angie1228 OH (My Page) on
Mon, Oct 2, 06 at 18:23

I dug up my tubers last week, and the tubers that produced my favorite dahlias are soft. They were not like this when I dug them up. None of the other ones are doing this and I can't figure out what could have happened. I have not stored any of them yet. I dug them up, split them (can't believe how many I ended up with), and set them in my garage to dry out. Then I will put them in a cardboard box with pine shavings and keep them for the winter. I don't know if I should just toss them or go with the flow and store them like I will with the others. Any thoughts??

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  • Posted by jroot 5A Ont. Canada (My Page) on
    Tue, Oct 3, 06 at 20:54

The advantage of the Saran Wrap method, or my recycled plastic grocery store bag method, is that it stops dehydrationi to a large extent. When tubers are stored in peat moss, or wood shavings, they do have extra insulation, but the media can absorb moisture from the tubers.

If I were you, I would not dry them too long, but rather after a day, now that they are cleaned etc, get them into the recycled grocery store bag with fungicide, or the saran wrap. Check out the other comments on this forum. I would NOT toss them. You never know, they may just make it.

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