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Post by Moonlight on Dec 7, 2015 11:06:46 GMT
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Post by Cat on Dec 7, 2015 18:54:55 GMT
Sounds exciting!!! P's hope the chiddlers settle tonight
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 7, 2015 21:22:00 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 8, 2015 6:39:18 GMT
According to the online tracking my parcel is still at the post office. Posted yesterday morning... but it is being processed. Maybe they are deciding whether or not to send it off today or not.
Update will follow, if there is any news.
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 8, 2015 21:51:29 GMT
According to the online tracking my parcel is still at the post office. Posted yesterday morning... but it is being processed. Maybe they are deciding whether or not to send it off today or not.
Update will follow, if there is any news.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 10, 2015 9:38:50 GMT
According to the online tracking my parcel is still at the post office. Posted yesterday morning... but it is being processed. Maybe they are deciding whether or not to send it off today or not.
Update will follow, if there is any news. 
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 10, 2015 11:12:01 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 10, 2015 14:37:58 GMT
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 10, 2015 14:57:14 GMT
Not annoying at all M....I remember the box now and the tubers in.....but got confused when you said no-one had asked what was in the box.....was this the girls or the recipient of said box   NB: of course the recipient only had to open the box to see.........it must have been Pirate and Fairy not asking.....right? |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 10, 2015 14:58:26 GMT
Not annoying at all M....I remember the box now and the tubers in.....but got confused when you said no-one had asked what was in the box.....was this the girls or the recipient of said box
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 10, 2015 15:00:14 GMT
Not annoying at all M....I remember the box now and the tubers in.....but got confused when you said no-one had asked what was in the box.....was this the girls or the recipient of said box NB: of course the recipient only had to open the box to see.........it must have been Pirate and Fairy not asking.....right?
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 10, 2015 16:50:13 GMT
Not annoying at all M....I remember the box now and the tubers in.....but got confused when you said no-one had asked what was in the box.....was this the girls or the recipient of said box
Do we get to know who the recipient is?  |
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Post by roofgardener on Dec 10, 2015 21:37:12 GMT
Perhaps the recipient hasn't even opened the box yet ? He/She might still be admiring the labels ?  |
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 11, 2015 0:50:41 GMT
Today I was finally happy that I had dug up all the rest of my tubers - including the ones that I don't want to grow next year. First time I planted dahlias I grew a dahlia called Franz Kafka. It is a large pom and was disappointing, centre never closed up properly, so useless for shows and a variety to avoid for breeding from because I don't want it's potential seedlings to have it's negative features. I thought that I had dug up it but somehow it has survived rotatorvatoring and I had a double dahlia come up, in it's space. The other variety is a really good variety called Nuland's Josephine. Loads of blooms from one plant and blooms a good matching size. I feel a bit guilty about not growing it next year but I don't want any more crosses from it.
Lots of my seedlings had a high dna count from Nulands' Josephine which didn't look good when crossed with my Decs. When I realised what was happening, I removed the blooms when they came up and there are loads. I feel guilty because there isn't anything wrong with it. I just don't want to spoil things for next year.
My Dad's seedlings that have come from Nuland's Jo are not decs. His are more pom / ball dahlias - some of which he'll keep for next year.
My Dad is right, I really ought to specialise on just one thing or just grow fewer varieties but more per each - if I want to have more of a chance in the shows. He knows that I am very competitive. Still very much lacking in confidence and still have basic panic attacks where I feel sick (but I have got a bit better) I know that now things are different, I can't enter the beginner / intermediate classes, so I am up against the big boys (with the exception of the pom classes where we have women exhibitors) and to give me a chance growing 1 plant of a variety makes it harder to competite against someone who has 20 per variety.
I've said to my Dad and he agrees that I have a point that by having a wider menu of varieties = a wide selection of choices on the bees pollen menu; this means that I have a wide potential dna mix and a real wild card. Anyone could get lucky in the seedling department but I know that breeders identify varieties that they hope to cross and will grow them in numbers alongside each other. Luck plays a big part whichever way that you try to cross them. The other thing that can be done is go out with a paintbrush and hand pollinate and deny the bees access. Poor bees. That'll be like in the middle of a resurant with delious tempting wafts and being unable to taste any.
I've wittered. What I was going to say, is that I seriously was considering going out in the pouring rain to pick up the tubers that I want to keep.* I hope that the slugs and snails haven't eaten them.
Oh well, live and learn. I need to hurry up on the learning.
*The reason that I didn't is that my phone (which I use as a torch) almost had a dead battery (but I am charging as I type) and the thought of staggering around at gone 10pm has put me off. I certainly don't want to go out there now.
What will be will be, just hope that my Gurtla Twilight lasts the night and I still feel guilty for deciding not to grow Nuland's Josephine (that great compost heap in the sky  ) because it has been a good variety and reliable in the shows.
Sometimes being a grown up isn't easy. Had to tell my girls today that we had had the news that someone that they know had passed away. They knew he was very old and frail. They knew that he was very ill - they saw him have to go and use an Oxygen mask and I honestly thought that they would be sad and upset but did not expect the way that they freaked out when I told them it was awful.
Didn't expect that info to pop out but it has. I just feel so sorry for them. I wish that I had known a better way to tell them but then is there ever a better way?
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Post by Moonlight on Dec 11, 2015 0:51:53 GMT
Perhaps the recipient hasn't even opened the box yet ? He/She might still be admiring the labels ? |
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erm force not false bit of a derr brain on that one.
(or in this house over enthusiastic adult).
and makes my sandwiches for lunch.
but it was really annoying me) the best I found was 1 where it had to breathe in and the other was about 4 times to big. 
- I'll add a couple of extras. I did ask in advance if fancied having something totally random and the 3rd is the baby of the group and a bit of a surprise. 
) because it has been a good variety and reliable in the shows.
