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Posted by
plantlady2 NW Washington (
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Fri, Oct 21, 05 at 23:21
In a past posting I said I'd put a picture of our new biggest AA dahlia here but I can't seem to get my mind around how to get it in here so I put it in our "Seedlings" album at the site below. It's on page 5 & the pictures show it dwarfing a soccer ball & then a basketball!
http://groups.msn.com/DahliasStuff/pictures |
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RE: BIG Dahlia
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| Congratulations Plantlady, that is one wonderful lookin dahlia!! |
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| Amazing! I love the color as well. |
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| That is AMAZING! I've never seen a dahlia that size before. It's beautiful! You must have given it a lot of TLC. |
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| Actually, no TLC involved at all. It's a late bloom of an extra seedling tuber that was stuck under a fir tree in an area of the garden that I've been trying to tell the husband we shouldn't be using for a number of years- needless to say he now thinks HE'S right & will keep on using that part of the garden! |
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| Seedlings!!! Do you actually pull the dried flower apart and find seeds attached to the end of the bit of blossom (like I do with a zinna)? I can almost feel another chapter of dahlia growing about to start. Your photos are lovely. Make me glad I finally got my digital camera. |
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| You can pull the pod apart & hope that the birds & bees have done you a favor & crossed 2 compatable parents & given you something wonderful BUT you can also grow thousands of seedlings & only get one or two worth keeping. We have been hybridizing & crossing AA dahlias for almost 20 years & have had a lot of duds- sometimes you get a wonderful one the first year & the 2nd or 3rd year it goes to pot & you have to feed it to the cows!! That's when you start crying- or cursing the dahlia gods- but then they let you come up with another wonderful cross & you get a magnificant dahlia & you're hooked all over again. If you thought growing dahlias from tubers is an addiction just wait until you try seedlings- one reason we now have upwards of 8-10 thousand different dahlias out there in the gardens- most of them are seedlings!! |
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| Plantlady, what type of staking system do you use for large dahlias? I'd really like something that blends into the garden. |
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| We use green metal fence posts to tie up in the gardens where we grow dahlias for show. They are tied up about every foot or so. I don't think you'll ever find anything that doesn't show & will hold up the big dahlias well. I know some growers use tomato cages & some use rebar but we've found for the big ones that the fence posts work best- & they're green so sort of look OK. In the big garden for rows of seedlings & seed parents we use Christmas tree twine & string it through holes in crossbars-- see the pictures in our "Seedling" album. The picts. are towards the end around pages 5 - 6 -7 or so. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Wynne's Picture Albums
RE: BIG Dahlia
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| plantlady2....we also like the green metal fence posts for the large tall dahlias.....for the shorter to medium ones we use concrete wire made into large cages...but i also put a stake by them when the tuber is planted.....and tie to it when small..... |
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