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Dahlias from seeds - next step?

BalaBala Posts: 113

My Dhalia seeds have grown as below.  What should be the next step?  Shall I leave them in the same pot for a while and plant them outside in clumps?  Do I need to move them to bigger pots?

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Last edited: 19 April 2017 21:54:57

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    get them into individual pots, not too big, just big enough to fit the roots in and keep potting them on til they fill at least a 2L pot. Then you can plant them out. They grow very quickly and will flower this year



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BalaBala Posts: 113

    Hurray! Thankyou

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Don't plant out until after the last frosts.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    that would bring them to a sad endimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Torg22Torg22 Posts: 302

    I presume that the flowers produced in year one will be insuperior compared to flowers from a tuber, or am I wrong? 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    You won't get those big multi-petaled pompom flowers from seed but I see that as an advantage, so do the bees. 



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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    image

    Some I grew from seed in 2014.

    This year I'm growing Bishops Children - wonderful tropical colours and red-tinged leaves


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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Thanks Hazel - I only wish I'd taken a pic when they we're in full flower - they had started to go-over at that stage - and dead-heading is not a specialty of mine. image


    Billericay - Essex

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  • Torg22Torg22 Posts: 302

    Ahh its the pom poms I am after :)

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