Dahlias not flowering

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  October 2023

  Welcome. Are they in the ground or in a pot? If pot, what size? How much sun are they getting? Pics will help
  

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• janetcotton86278 Posts: 4

  October 2023

  I planted them in pots of compost for a few months. Once they had a lot of green healthy foliage, I planted them in the garden (End of June) 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  October 2023

  Are they in a sunny spot? 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• janetcotton86278 Posts: 4

  October 2023

  Yes but other plants in the border around them

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• janetcotton86278 Posts: 4

  October 2023

  They were in pots until foliage established in June (s/w uk) then I put them in my borders 

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  October 2023

  Did you feed them, and keep them well watered?

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  October 2023 edited October 2023

  Did you get any buds at all? Were the surrounding plants much taller than the dahlias? Did you notice any damage to the leaves from pests? How many tubers did you plant?
  

  
  

  Dahlia buds are round and firm: 
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Slug/snail damage:
  

  
  

  
  

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• Fellsman Posts: 15

  October 2023

  You say you bought rooted tubers, did you actually empty the pot & see a tuber? I ask because a commercial grower could start from seed in early spring or cuttings a bit later and get a very sellable looking plant into the GCs by Whitsun I would think. 
  
  Whatever you do don't bin them without digging them up gently after first frost to see what you've got.

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