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Post by candyblue on May 3, 2014 14:41:18 GMT
Im still waiting for my Halls order, think it may b.be coming this week fingers crossed. I am leaving my dahlias covered in the greenhouse tonight as feel there may be another frost tonight. Think we have about 100 cuttings that all seem to be doing well, with lots from Blyton softer gleam and Rebel. Cant wait to get them all planted out but it wont be for quite a while as we are very behind this year.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 15:03:12 GMT
Im still waiting for my Halls order, think it may b.be coming this week fingers crossed. I am leaving my dahlias covered in the greenhouse tonight as feel there may be another frost tonight. Think we have about 100 cuttings that all seem to be doing well, with lots from Blyton softer gleam and Rebel. Cant wait to get them all planted out but it wont be for quite a while as we are very behind this year. Candyblue, I don't think it's going to be as cold as last night, probably be 6-7'c, although that's a bit cold for new cuttings. I've got 25 cuttings nearly ready for potting up, so still got them on the heated bench just in case. All the earlier cuttings are now in 4" pots doing well, and spending the days outside the greenhouse. Nenekazi has been fantastic for cuttings, not one died, so I've got 10 very healthy looking plants. Where as Nargold was totally the opposite, 12 cuttings, and only two survived  . You just can't odds it can you.  |
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Post by candyblue on May 3, 2014 22:18:14 GMT
I`d rather be safe, we have no heat at all in greenhouse, so a bit of fleece over them just in case. Nargold was one of our first ever varieties as Rob loved it, used to do very well.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2014 7:44:17 GMT
I`d rather be safe, we have no heat at all in greenhouse, so a bit of fleece over them just in case. Nargold was one of our first ever varieties as Rob loved it, used to do very well. You was right to cover them, It got quite cold again last night, the heater kicked in at 8'c very early on in the night. I've checked the weather and my websites all say that it's going to get milder from today, so we should be ok. This is the first year I'm growing Nargold, I keep seeing it on display at Aylett's Dahlia field, so decide to ask Paul, my dahlia guru there, if he could save me a field tuber of Nargold and Nenkazi. Both have grown really well, but as I said before, the cuttings have been chalk and cheese  If Rob wants to grow Nargold again next year, I'm going to split the tuber, and he can have half if he wants. |
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Post by gareth on May 4, 2014 11:50:50 GMT
Just taken another 25 cuttings this morning, had good and bad news with the others. Good news is that 6 of the cuttings have rooted the bad news is that I got the tags mixed up with 3 of them, so the cuttings are of either Franz Kafka or Hillcrest Candy but I cant tell the foliage apart so I'll have to wait till they flower to find out what they are :S
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Post by Lou78W on May 4, 2014 20:54:26 GMT
There's a lesson learned then........don't know where you are.....but its a bit late for taking cuttings for flowering this year?
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Post by gareth on May 5, 2014 10:09:41 GMT
There's a lesson learned then........don't know where you are.....but its a bit late for taking cuttings for flowering this year? I'm planning on keeping most of them as pot tubers, so I'm not that concerned about them flowering this year (apart from the unidentified ones). I'd have thought that the recent cuttings may just about flower before the end of the season ? |
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Post by snute2008 on May 5, 2014 11:46:02 GMT
Interesting Gareth as I am also still taking cuttings to make pot tubers. I normally use my first cuttings from the tubers to root as pot tubers but lost most of my first take from the tubers. So took cuttings for flowering for this year and now trying to build up the stock for next year.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 9:42:27 GMT
Found two of my cuttings with virus type markings on the leaves. Light green mottling, turning slightly brown, so now in the bin, and keeping a close eye on the rest.
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Post by Lou78W on May 9, 2014 6:00:41 GMT
There's a lesson learned then........don't know where you are.....but its a bit late for taking cuttings for flowering this year? I'm planning on keeping most of them as pot tubers, so I'm not that concerned about them flowering this year (apart from the unidentified ones). I'd have thought that the recent cuttings may just about flower before the end of the season ? They may indeed...and keeping as pot tubers for next season is good insurance  |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 16:16:49 GMT
That's it, I'm already for planting out. All rotovatered, just added 600lts of topsoil, raked in with Q4. Two more weeks and I'll be planting out. Just have to get my barley straw for mulching, and I'll be well away  . |
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Post by Tel on May 9, 2014 19:12:20 GMT
Just taken another 25 cuttings this morning, had good and bad news with the others. Good news is that 6 of the cuttings have rooted the bad news is that I got the tags mixed up with 3 of them, so the cuttings are of either Franz Kafka or Hillcrest Candy but I cant tell the foliage apart so I'll have to wait till they flower to find out what they are :S I have done that many a time. |
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Post by Tel on May 9, 2014 19:20:27 GMT
 [/quote] All my pot tubers are what I call my dual purpose pot tubers, the plants were planted into the ground in their pots. They were a week or two behind the rest before they flowered, because they did not take off until they got their roots through the holes in the bottom of the pots into the soil, but there was no difference in size of the blooms.
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Post by Moonlight on May 9, 2014 20:48:18 GMT
All my pot tubers are what I call my dual purpose pot tubers, the plants were planted into the ground in their pots. They were a week or two behind the rest before they flowered, because they did not take off until they got their roots through the holes in the bottom of the pots into the soil, but there was no difference in size of the blooms.[/quote] Yours look so neat and tidy, me I've got a tropical forest growing in my greenhouse, without the tropical part. 
You've reminded me, been too distracted with my seedlings, haven't done a tropical forest tuber update recently. How do you manage to be so tidy? Where do you keep your seedlings?
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Post by Tel on May 10, 2014 5:41:04 GMT
All my pot tubers are what I call my dual purpose pot tubers, the plants were planted into the ground in their pots. They were a week or two behind the rest before they flowered, because they did not take off until they got their roots through the holes in the bottom of the pots into the soil, but there was no difference in size of the blooms.
You've reminded me, been too distracted with my seedlings, haven't done a tropical forest tuber update recently. How do you manage to be so tidy? Where do you keep your seedlings?
p.s. Is that Downham Royal in front of the blue pot?[/quote] Moonlight, this is a pic I posted back in Jan. You are correct that tuber is Downham Royal. Seedlings were sown in March, some of the seedling tray's were placed on the bench after some of the tubers were finished with, for taking cuttings. What you cannot see in the pic is a board hanging from the eves in the green house just above head height, some trays were placed on that. The seedlings were moved to the greenhouse on the allotment once they started coming through, once big enough they were potted up down there. |
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. You just can't odds it can you. 
If Rob wants to grow Nargold again next year, I'm going to split the tuber, and he can have half if he wants.
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