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Post by Tel on Oct 13, 2013 7:05:09 GMT
I've got another 6 Downham Royal seeds but I haven't had any Eastwood Moonlight. I don't think I am going to have any Pirates but don't tell anyone  but I did collect a few Spanish Dancers...
My Dad has asked my Mum if he can order some more dahlias from the US for his Christmas present. So I'm going to go online Window shopping at some point. I have never had any seeds from Eastwood, I wonder if it is sterile.  There was two seedlings in the two NDS shows from Clearview Dahlias. Clearview Sundance a Yellow, Medium Semi/Cactus and Clearview Daniel, a Yellow ball. Looking at the pics in the Garden News, I like Clearview Daniel. |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 14, 2013 15:02:03 GMT
I've got another 6 Downham Royal seeds but I haven't had any Eastwood Moonlight. I don't think I am going to have any Pirates but don't tell anyone but I did collect a few Spanish Dancers...
My Dad has asked my Mum if he can order some more dahlias from the US for his Christmas present. So I'm going to go online Window shopping at some point. I have never had any seeds from Eastwood, I wonder if it is sterile. There was two seedlings in the two NDS shows from Clearview Dahlias. Clearview Sundance a Yellow, Medium Semi/Cactus and Clearview Daniel, a Yellow ball. Looking at the pics in the Garden News, I like Clearview Daniel.
Some of my Dad's Clearview dahlias are going to the compost heap. He is going to keep Clearview Sundance and give it another year. This years ones looked really good from the side view but the centre was too big from the front.
Wonder if he would like a Eastwood Moonlight / Sundance cross. Like I said he is really picky.
He grew Clearview David and Clearview Debbie this year which were ok. They've been granted an extra year but he didn't want Clearview Daniel because it is yellow and doesn't want to have any yellow ball seedlings. So all his non-yellow ball dahlias are together well away from the others and he also has a group of red dahlias away from others.
Of this years seedlings (seeds grown from the non red dahlias) he has pretty much all different types of dahlias but not singles which he is very happy about because he doesn't like singles. Some of his seedlings are going to get another year with more space to grow. Mum and I have put in requests for the ones that we like but Dad being Dad will only pick the ones that he thinks might be good enough in the future.
I think that part of the reason why I really, really want these seeds to grow is because it's what my Dad did / does. Dahlias are so much more than a beautiful flower. There is so much more to dahlias than the shows. I understand now that the naive excitement, stress and worry over getting a tuber to grow or the stress of taking a cutting and the hope that it will grow is going to nothing in comparison to how it will be in my attempt to get any of these seeds to grow.
Fingers crossed for us both 'eh Tel?
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Post by Tel on Oct 14, 2013 19:36:26 GMT
I have never had any seeds from Eastwood, I wonder if it is sterile. There was two seedlings in the two NDS shows from Clearview Dahlias. Clearview Sundance a Yellow, Medium Semi/Cactus and Clearview Daniel, a Yellow ball. Looking at the pics in the Garden News, I like Clearview Daniel.
Some of my Dad's Clearview dahlias are going to the compost heap. He is going to keep Clearview Sundance and give it another year. This years ones looked really good from the side view but the centre was too big from the front.
Wonder if he would like a Eastwood Moonlight / Sundance cross. Like I said he is really picky.
He grew Clearview David and Clearview Debbie this year which were ok. They've been granted an extra year but he didn't want Clearview Daniel because it is yellow and doesn't want to have any yellow ball seedlings. So all his non-yellow ball dahlias are together well away from the others and he also has a group of red dahlias away from others.
Of this years seedlings (seeds grown from the non red dahlias) he has pretty much all different types of dahlias but not singles which he is very happy about because he doesn't like singles. Some of his seedlings are going to get another year with more space to grow. Mum and I have put in requests for the ones that we like but Dad being Dad will only pick the ones that he thinks might be good enough in the future.
I think that part of the reason why I really, really want these seeds to grow is because it's what my Dad did / does. Dahlias are so much more than a beautiful flower. There is so much more to dahlias than the shows. I understand now that the naive excitement, stress and worry over getting a tuber to grow or the stress of taking a cutting and the hope that it will grow is going to nothing in comparison to how it will be in my attempt to get any of these seeds to grow.
Fingers crossed for us both 'eh Tel?
Yep roll on 2014  |
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Post by Rosie on Oct 18, 2013 11:15:47 GMT
Def fingers, eyes, toes etc crossed for you all who show flowers and veg, I am full of admiration for you all cos i know i don't have that kind of dedication   |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 21, 2013 20:26:01 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 24, 2013 10:29:08 GMT
Been down to my dahlias and they are looking a bit sad now but there are some that are still budding. Picked some seed heads, no luck with the Pirates but I have picked 1 Weston Spanish Dancer head which had to quite a few seeds in it. I am going to do battle with my Mary's Jomanda, as somehow or other I need to get past it to get to my Eastwood Moonlight. I would love it if I could get just 1 seed.
Oh well time to go cleanse my scissors.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 24, 2013 17:45:15 GMT
The link didn't work for me.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 24, 2013 21:00:59 GMT
The link didn't work for me.
Just clicked it myself and it didn't work for me either |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 24, 2013 21:10:34 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 25, 2013 9:19:59 GMT
This what the dahlias look like now (well yesterday ):
Weston Pirate
Downham Royals
Downham Royal nb The photo doesn't she it's true colour - it is still a deep purple.
Same bloom close up
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 25, 2013 9:21:18 GMT
My Dad is going to come round later, I'm sure that we will find something to talk about...
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 25, 2013 14:46:07 GMT
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 25, 2013 14:46:11 GMT
Got it now ML. Thanks for putting that link up.
I did a very similar thing a couple of years back with one of those polythene mini greenhouses. I just used one tealight and one pot so it probably wasn't as efficient as in the video but the seeds all germinated so maybe it was warm enough after all.
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Post by Tel on Oct 25, 2013 15:21:57 GMT
Nice one Moonlight, fingers crossed you have a nice seedling from Eastwood. |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 25, 2013 15:55:50 GMT
Nice one Moonlight, fingers crossed you have a nice seedling from Eastwood. 
I've got some Staleen Condessa seeds that I am going to give to my Dad. Don't want anything I can't reach.
When I can get to it I am going to try and search for my Peach Delight. Beautiful dahlia but I just wasn't lucky with it. Dad searched around my Pirate seed head pieces and found 5 seeds. I hadn't thrown them because just in case. Did the right thing there.
I've got hardly any space so I've got to be really picky at what I can realistically grow.
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