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Dahlias from seed query.

AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
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I grew some mixed dahlias from seed and planted them out a few weeks ago.  I gave some spare ones to my neighbour, and a week or so later he told me he'd seen Monty on GW saying that dahlias grown from seed don't flower in the first year.  Is this true? I'm sure l grew some several years ago and they did flower the same year. 
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    They can flower in their first year, if thet were sown early enough.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Thanks @punkdoc, if memory serves, they were sown end of March, beginning of April, certainly no later than 13th April. Would that be early enough ?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s the perfect time to sow, and they will flower in the first year, what’s more they make big tubers that you can over winter and start of again next year.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    What Monty Don says , and what is factually accurate are rarely the same.
    Devon.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I sowed my Bishops Children seed on 30th March this year, and they're just coming into flower-


    I've grown them from seed each year for several years and they always flower.
    Maybe some varieties take longer

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Pete8 said:
    I sowed my Bishops Children seed on 30th March this year, and they're just coming into flower-


    I've grown them from seed each year for several years and they always flower.
    Maybe some varieties take longer
    Or maybe Monty was just wrong, again.
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve grow alsorts from seeds, (except liquorice ones)  they’ve all flowered first year and made tubers for next. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Or maybe he didn't say it at all.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I've watched every episode and I'm sure I would have noted if Monty had said such a thing. I used to grow them from seed some 50 yrs ago and they flowered the same year then too.
    I imagine if you're wanting 6ft cactus dahlias from seed, they may take longer

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've given up "noting" when MD gets it wrong, but his adoring fans lap up every word as if spoken by The Oracle.
    Devon.
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