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Post by Moonlight on Mar 2, 2013 10:08:54 GMT
Thanks Lou 
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 22, 2013 0:22:29 GMT
Quick update to say that I have now got my chicken legs  I ordered 2 (combined order with my Father) and we had two bonus extras, so I have a Clearview Orcha tuber and my Father had another order from the USA and there was a bonus tuber of a variety that I have never heard of before that.
So now I have 4 chicken legs from the USA and an extra one from my Dad, rather than waste a lobe with an eye already growing but could not be squeezed to fit in the compost and just stuck out in the air.
My 1st three chicken legs don't look very promising but I will reserve judgement. Will just have to wait and see if they grow at all. The order from www.clacksdahliapatch.com/index.html were well patched and the eyes were already growing when they arrived.
Fingers crossed they all grow, my Downham Royal and Happy Halloween tubers have started to shoot. So I am very happy.
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Post by Geranium on Mar 22, 2013 6:41:49 GMT
It's so bloomin' cold here that everything is much slower than usual. I'm glad to hear that your tubers are sprouting. Mine are just starting, apart from three.
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 22, 2013 20:58:28 GMT
Stupid question here.
What do you call the different parts of a tuber? I know there is the neck of the stalk/stem, eyes etc but what do you call the lumps (technical term there ). I've been calling them 'lobes' and then there are the roots.
It's been annoying me for a while now when I post about tubers. I don't know what the correct terms are and I am not sure that I am making sense. For example, I have some shoots growing from the neck of one of my tubers but I've noticed that I have one come from underneath the compost, so I am guessing that it might have come from a lobe rather than the neck.
Has anyone else had this happen and grown a dahlia from it?
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Post by Tel on Mar 23, 2013 13:28:15 GMT
The lumps are the food bank for the plant, I call that part the tubers. |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 23, 2013 14:40:22 GMT
The lumps are the food bank for the plant, I call that part the tubers. |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 23, 2013 14:52:49 GMT
Stupid question here.
What do you call the different parts of a tuber? I know there is the neck of the stalk/stem, eyes etc but what do you call the lumps (technical term there ). I've been calling them 'lobes' and then there are the roots.
It's been annoying me for a while now when I post about tubers. I don't know what the correct terms are and I am not sure that I am making sense. For example, I have some shoots growing from the neck of one of my tubers but I've noticed that I have one come from underneath the compost, so I am guessing that it might have come from a lobe rather than the neck.
Has anyone else had this happen and grown a dahlia from it?  I am referring to the tuber at the top of the picture. I hope that I am making sense now. |
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Post by dcdahlia on Mar 23, 2013 15:44:58 GMT
Don't worry happens regularly moonlight I have minley carol,jomanda,ruskin michelle and george marston doing the same.
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Post by scrumpy on Mar 23, 2013 18:09:13 GMT
Here are some of my weird tubers. Similar problem to yours. As you can see from the top left, it is growing through last years stem. Top right appeared way below the compost, what I did was let them grow, then stopped them. The shoots in the axils will provide the cuttings. Bottom two are again coming from somewhere, will stop them pretty soon, as well as the one growing through the stem, and take cuttings from the leaf axils.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 23, 2013 20:34:10 GMT
Scrumpy what is the blue pellety bits on the surface of the compost?
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Post by scrumpy on Mar 23, 2013 20:41:55 GMT
slug pellets.....though they have no affect on the little baby slugs that keep chewing the varieties you don't want them to  Next year I must get some metaldehyde solution if it is still available and soak the compost when i plant the tubers, as they must be coming from that. |
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 23, 2013 23:58:24 GMT
slug pellets.....though they have no affect on the little baby slugs that keep chewing the varieties you don't want them to Next year I must get some metaldehyde solution if it is still available and soak the compost when i plant the tubers, as they must be coming from that.  I should have of twigged that one. Luckily I don't have that battle to face (but if I did it would be awful) as mine are still in the corner of our lounge. but then I am only growing 11 tubers, most of the people growing dahlias on here would fill a lot more rooms. |
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Post by steve on Mar 24, 2013 8:50:30 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Mar 25, 2013 9:32:33 GMT
ok cuttings, not ready yet but thinking towards the next step.
If the weather was not so completely rubbish what would the usual growing conditions required to grow healthy cuttings?
nb Emphasis on the word if as this year doesn't look like it is going to suddenly get better so the flip side of the question is,
what have you done differently this year to give cuttings a chance of survival, that you would not have needed to do in a more moderate weather year?
Or would you just do the same as normal?
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Post by Tel on Mar 25, 2013 16:05:52 GMT
ok cuttings, not ready yet but thinking towards the next step.
If the weather was not so completely rubbish what would the usual growing conditions required to grow healthy cuttings?
nb Emphasis on the word if as this year doesn't look like it is going to suddenly get better so the flip side of the question is,
what have you done differently this year to give cuttings a chance of survival, that you would not have needed to do in a more moderate weather year?
Done nothing different to any other year, just keeping the greenhouse at 10 centigrade, with this colder than average March. I dread the Leccy bill for this winter. The OH will not be too pleased if the direct debit goes up. 
Or would you just do the same as normal? |
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I ordered 2 (combined order with my Father) and we had two bonus extras, so I have a Clearview Orcha tuber and my Father had another order from the USA and there was a bonus tuber of a variety that I have never heard of before that.
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