Thanks Fairygirl I’ll remember that for future. There are tiny bits of growth on the ones I circled so may leave these and see and will check tubers on the others and prob give up.😧
No chance of that surviving outside in the ground - for the reasons given by @punkdoc. That'll have disappeared by the next morning. Mine were all filling 6-7 inch pots, and two have just been put into their final pots today. Even though they were all healthy and bushy, I've had a job keeping the slugs away. I had to resort to slug pellets, which I hardly ever use.
Also - you may have been lucky with the one you left over winter in the ground, but that was by no means a normal winter. I've never known such a warm dry winter, and I've lived here all my life.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I’ll try and nurture them along and see what happens. If they don’t come on this year can I still put these tubers away over winter and try again next year? Learning all the time
If my novice experience helps, I've three dahlias, one a giant but it won't flower until later. The one in a pot has buds already. I stored them dry in the garage over winter this year and when I got them back out I had to remove slimy tubers. I then potted one up and put the other two out and gave them a good drench. The only reason I dug them up this year is I wanted to move them, I have for two previous years covered the top in straw for the winter. I'm in the fens where it is very dry. Theyre in a very sunny spot in very free draining non clayey soil. Hope it helps to hear from another perspective to understand these plants.
The one in a pot (next to pots in progress!!) My giant now moved (yes there will be weeds around it). I didn't plant it deep enough so I threw some sand over the exposed tubers. And the other one!
Your photo wasn't showing when I posted earlier @Kitty52. Those little buds should come away and produce foliage quite quickly now, but it's not going to be happy outdoors, for the reasons we gave, so just keep it ticking over with some protection until it's got some good top growth. If you have others like that, just do the same with them, but they need to have some decent top growth for putting outdoors.
Hopefully, you'll get something good by the end of summer
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Also - you may have been lucky with the one you left over winter in the ground, but that was by no means a normal winter. I've never known such a warm dry winter, and I've lived here all my life.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This year in the normal ground they are getting munched to death!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The one in a pot (next to pots in progress!!)
My giant now moved (yes there will be weeds around it). I didn't plant it deep enough so I threw some sand over the exposed tubers.
And the other one!
Hopefully, you'll get something good by the end of summer
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...