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Post by sweetpea on May 27, 2013 22:01:23 GMT
You cannot argue with sweetpea. ;D !!......but won't in this instance......cos he's right......  ;D |
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Post by Moonlight on May 27, 2013 22:09:48 GMT
It hurts, but tomorrow it will be removed. |
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Post by Moonlight on May 28, 2013 10:55:37 GMT
Dad gave me a Clearview Arlene plant so I will be able to grow a Clearview dahlia after all. My Clearview Orcha with it's tiny shoot didn't like being potted up and the shoot turned brown. My Clearview Arlene tuber went bad and although it had some roots Clearview Jenny, hasn't thrown up any shoots at all.  I am disappointed but I guess that that is one of those things. I won't bother re-ordering Clearview Jenny but I still want to order Candy Jayne next year. I won't bother trying to get any cuttings I am going to just put it straight into a pot. Maybe I will have more luck that way.
Colarado Classic also from US (freebie from Dad's order) has grown away quite happily. I've got it because Dad didn't want it (when he saw the photo he muttered if it had been one of his it would have gone straight on the compost heap......).
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Post by Moonlight on May 30, 2013 10:15:35 GMT
I have news and a confession to make.
Going to start with the confession. When I asked about stopping the 2 dahlias I ended up on only stopping one. It was a work day for me and as my parents collect girls from school I was able to get my Dad to have a look at my Dahlias and tell me if I was doing the stopping in the right place. I ended up doing one and not the other because he said that I might as well leave it to flower and then stop it. Now I do understand the logic of stopping but as I don't understand the practicalities, I thought that I would go with my Dad. I hope that he doesn't mind me keep asking him to double check my dahlias when he is here (but not every time he is here.) but I want them to grow and I worry that if I do do it all wrong that I will end up killing them. I think that he understands that.
When he was here yesterday I asked him to check that I was doing it ok. I am need to do a couple of things. We didn't even bother looking at my Clearview tubers so I was shocked to notice that there were new eyes growing on my Clearview Arlene.
This was the one that was the biggest out of all of our tubers from the US. It had done absolutely nothing and when I checked it over it had started going black at the end. So I chopped it up until I got to a better bit and dipped that end in some roota and put it in a pot and ignored it. 
It is in the greenhouse with the other 2 and treated the same as the other tubers and plants.
I don't know whether or not it will grow shoots but at least it has done something.
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Post by Moonlight on May 30, 2013 10:33:39 GMT
My other news is that my cutting from Franz Kafka has rooted so I've potted him up. Very small root but it was there.
I hope that it grows into a proper plant but if it doesn't that's ok. It came from Wilkson's and was desperate to grow as it had a anaemic looking shoot pushing out.
Really glad that my cutting took. It was one where I didn't have any advice from my Dad which I normally do e.g. exactly where to cut etc. So I am very proud that it started to grow roots. Never know it might carry on growing.
All my tubers are in my greenhouse and I am not taking any more cuttings. Till next year and next year if my tubers survive I am going to be starting them off earlier. 
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 1, 2013 21:33:08 GMT
2 of my Downham Royals have been put outside in our front garden. Both sides of our doorway. They are in big pots. This is what I have wanted for ages, all the other dahlias are just bonus'.
Clearview Arlene update: I've got green shoots poking from the eyes.
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 3, 2013 20:19:57 GMT
The Rotavator has been out today. :)Once I have worked out how to lay it out, I've got to decide which plant to plant where. Colour? Type? Height of plant? Bushiness of the dahlia?
Haven't a clue but it is very exciting.
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Post by mattolo on Jun 3, 2013 21:47:42 GMT
I have a beginners question.When you make a cage with three canes around your plant,how far away is one cane from the other?
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Post by Tel on Jun 4, 2013 4:47:12 GMT
I place my cane's roughly 2ft 6in apart.
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Post by scrumpy on Jun 4, 2013 6:35:41 GMT
I have a beginners question.When you make a cage with three canes around your plant,how far away is one cane from the other? Mine end up about 15" apart.I wait until the plants are quite large, then I place the canes through them in suitable gaps in the plant. |
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Post by Cherry on Jun 4, 2013 19:51:32 GMT
What is the ideal amount of sun for a dahlia? Can they have too much sun? I may have to move my dahlia, which is in a pot, to a sunnier position as it is in shade from 1430 but open to the sky. If I move it, I won't see it from the window but nothing is too good for my dahlia.
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Post by Tel on Jun 5, 2013 6:15:18 GMT
What is the ideal amount of sun for a dahlia? Can they have too much sun? I may have to move my dahlia, which is in a pot, to a sunnier position as it is in shade from 1430 but open to the sky. If I move it, I won't see it from the window but nothing is too good for my dahlia. They cannot have too much sun Cherry, they need a minimum of half a day, it sounds as though yours receives more than that. So if want to see it from the window, leave it where it is. |
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Post by Cherry on Jun 5, 2013 8:55:57 GMT
No Tel. It is going to be perfect, so I will move it while it is still moveable. It will have beautiful soil, lovely partners, lots of sun but I will have to walk around the house to see it. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 6, 2013 8:32:50 GMT
How do people plan which dahlia goes where on a plot?
Do people go for type / classification size / predicted height of bush / colour?
Interested on other people's ideas as I'm doing it for the 1st time.
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Post by Tel on Jun 6, 2013 18:17:42 GMT
I go for classification and height, so a dahlia that may grow 4ft6in or 1.372m to 5ft or 1.524m will not tower over a dahlia that only grows to 3ft or 0.9144m
I try to place all the same classification IE Small Dec's together taking into the account the above.
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