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Post by markb on May 10, 2013 17:04:26 GMT
Received half my order from Halls so spent the afternoon potting these up. Excellent quality and a good size plant.
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Post by dcdahlia on May 10, 2013 21:05:41 GMT
Called at phil watsons today to pick up my oakwood goldcrest,32 good healthy plants,looks like I will be helping him plant his 800 dahlias as payment
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Post by Tel on May 11, 2013 6:43:29 GMT
Called at phil watsons today to pick up my oakwood goldcrest,32 good healthy plants,looks like I will be helping him plant his 800 dahlias as payment That will keep you fit DC. ;D |
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Post by markb on May 11, 2013 14:07:13 GMT
Just potted up the last 'Trelyn Kiwi' which gives me a total of 40 plants to select 24 from. Just waiting on 18 cuttings of 'Lilian Marston' to root and that will be it for me this season.
Must try and weed through the growing area in the next week or so.
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Post by scrumpy on May 11, 2013 19:16:15 GMT
Yes I knew halls were struggling early on I even gave them some spare tubers.I don't buy from them anymore I think cruickshanks and station house are cheaper.I had an email yesterday off sion from station house to say mine are on there way. I've got a few plants to send to Sion.....Ryecroft Magnum....the tubers I gave him didn't produce anything. He says he has loads of cuttings of Goldcrest that have just rooted, everything is way behind. Think they may be having a fair bit of last minute business as lots of people are ordering because they haven't got the cuttings they normally have. |
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Post by dcdahlia on May 11, 2013 20:29:49 GMT
We had our society plant sale today and I bought 10 willo's violet,just waiting for some mary's jomanda in the propoagator and thats it for me.We made £460 for the society.
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Post by Moonlight on May 11, 2013 20:50:29 GMT
We had our society plant sale today and I bought 10 willo's violet,just waiting for some mary's jomanda in the propoagator and thats it for me.We made £460 for the society. |
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Post by dcdahlia on May 12, 2013 0:14:25 GMT
The money will go towards the price of the venue for the september show and the late chrysanth show in november and prize money moonlight.We have a great little society with 30 plus members with 5/6 showing dahlias at national level and 3/4 showing chysanths at national level.We also have members showing gladioli ,carnations and orchids at a high level.
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Post by Tel on May 12, 2013 8:25:24 GMT
Im going to Essex Dahlia society plant sale tomorrow to pick up my order from Porters and no doubt I will see more plants that "I need" at the sale day I hope you managed to get the plants you wanted Candyblue.  |
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Post by Moonlight on May 12, 2013 12:10:12 GMT
The money will go towards the price of the venue for the september show and the late chrysanth show in november and prize money moonlight. We have a great little society with 30 plus members with 5/6 showing dahlias at national level and 3/4 showing chysanths at national level.We also have members showing gladioli ,carnations and orchids at a high level.
I hadn't thought of the cost of venues for the shows either, plus I guess insurance for the trophies and cups. It is good to think about the bigger picture. |
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Post by candyblue on May 12, 2013 20:31:41 GMT
Im going to Essex Dahlia society plant sale tomorrow to pick up my order from Porters and no doubt I will see more plants that "I need" at the sale day I hope you managed to get the plants you wanted Candyblue. Yes Rosemary had my order for me and then we ended up buying more plants from the sale as at £1.50 each they were good value as very healthy plants. We realised we didn't have a small cactus as have no ruskin myra this year so ended up getting Trelyn Kiwi and Ruskin Andrea, we also got Gurtla Twilight, Kenora Jubilee and Willos violet, not sure where we end up putting them all what with Robs 250 chrysanths  |
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Post by snute2008 on May 14, 2013 9:38:23 GMT
I am interested to find out what your recommended feeding regime is. I plan on using Groworganic in the planting hole and then a general feed until the end of June. What do you guys use please. Thanks.
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Post by Lou78W on May 14, 2013 17:09:50 GMT
I use chook pellets mixed in some mpc/loam mix for the hole.....then nothing for a good month to get the plant to reach out for nourishment....I then use any high potash feed...tomorite; Chempak; Vitax.....whatever I have handy....sometimes I will give them a foliar feed (if the weather is very warm....ha...ha...)  |
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Post by markb on May 14, 2013 18:39:52 GMT
I don't actually feed mine with anything. Nor do I water them once they are established. However, my growing area is mulched in about late June with as much fresh horse manure/straw/wood chips as I can get. Every time it rains (and we get a lot of that in South Wales even in a 'normal' summer) some of the nutrient is washed out of the mulch and down to the plants.
It has worked well for me but it may not be to everyone's taste.
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Post by Tel on May 14, 2013 18:47:11 GMT
I use chempac 2 mid June to mid July, chempac 3 mid July to mid August, then chempac 4 mid August to end of season. I feed using a sprayer on the hose pipe.
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