Help with Dahlia Tuber Rooting Issue
bjazz28
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I hope you're well!
Recently I bought a summer flowering Dahlia from a well-known store, and a section of the tuber had broken off in the bag. With some research I found that this can happen quite a lot, but instead of throwing the broken off tuber away I wanted to see if I could get it to grow a plant from its own food stores. I know that for a successful growth of such a tuber it needs to have sprouted an 'eye' from which a stem will emerge at the tip, and I must confess I never really noticed one on it but I planted the tuber in some compost anyway just to see what might happen. I did this in late Winter early Spring this year. So far it has grown lots and lots of roots visible through the plastic of the container, but nothing is growing from the tip. Does anyone here know if growth is likely at this point or ever, or is it possible that nothing will happen beyond there being lots of roots? here are some pictures below:
There is a strange looking object appearing on the tip, but I don't know if it will continue to grow into something. It is sort of green but I can't be sure. It may be nothing except an anomalous growth?
Thanks very much for reading this post,Cheers
Cliff.
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Thank you both very much indeed.
The only reason I used this method of planting is because I watched a YouTube video where the gardener conducted an experiment concerning tubers like this, and for some reason he planted them on their sides with the flesh half exposed as you see above? (I think to prevent them rotting maybe), so I just followed him :-). But, I will do as you suggest and plant them vertically right away while there s still some time for them to have a full growth season. Who knows, it may work, and if it does I'll post the results here.
Thanks again,
Cliff.