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Dahlia
Could some educate me please, I would like to know if you take a cutting from a Dahlia will it form a tuber, I know you can take part of the tuber and that will form a new one, but If you are taking a stem cutting will this form a tuber. I would like to increase more next year, so any info would be great. Thank you so much.
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Thank you musher, I'm hoping to get a few extra next year.
Too late now, you need to overwinter the tubers then when you start them off next year you can take of the new shoots.
very easy to grow from seeds, so I leave mine in the ground now, almost hoping they won't overwinter.
Hi Lyn, I did take some tuber cuttings this year and they took quiet well, what I wanted to know if you took a cutting without taking some of the tuber would it still turn in to a tuber?
I've never grown them from seeds Lyn, could you tell me when you do it and what sort of soil to use, pretty much how do you get them to grow from seed, please. would love to be able to grow them from seeds.
I love Dahlia, the only thing is I want more and more.
Thank you Lyn.xx
Just sow the seeds in March as you would any other seed. You need to pinch out the tops to make them bushy, just the same as any seedling. Plant out beginning of May, just as any new plants. No special treatment, and there are some beautiful ones from seed. Or, you can let the ones you have now go to seed and collect them when they are dry.
the only thing is that they may not come true to the colour of the mother plant, but they are all pretty.
they will grow a tuber through the year, they are amazing when you dig them up at the end of the year.
If you want loads, seed is the way to go.
I've got some lovely plants from seed "collected"
at Rosemoor Lyn.
If you start the tubers into growth next spring you can take cuttings from the shoots. They will form tubers over the growing season which will be identical to the parent plant. It is too late to do this now, you need new, young growth. Seeds are great but they won't be the same as mum.
Thanks Lyn, I thought they would be a lot harder than that to grow, Thanks for all the info Lyn that is great.
Thanks Posy, that is what I did this year, I just want to make more from steam cuttings and seeds.
This is a cutting I did earlier this summer. I took it from where I dead headed a dahlia. All I did was to cut it about 2in from where the stalk branched into 2 and where there was a couple of leaves. I trimmed both stalks off and just left 1 leaf. On the end of the 2in stalk that was left, I dipped the end in some rooting powder, tapped it to remove the excess powder off and potted it.
It's growing as you can see for now so am looking forward to see from which plant I took it from.