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Post by jay65 on Jan 27, 2016 19:29:41 GMT
Sorry to hear your son is poorly jay65 hope he feels better soon Thank you Cat. He's only 5yo, so has a tendency still, to pick up all sorts of bugs and viruses I'm afraid, but this one has hit him pretty hard, but I'm sure he will be fine. Just needs a few days R & R. |
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Post by jay65 on Jan 27, 2016 21:41:40 GMT
Can I just add that I bought a 75l bag of Sinclairs' Potting/Bedding compost yesterday, and decided to mix it 50/50 with vermiculite, this is the same set up as I had last year, and it returns far lighter in texture than the Jacks Magic/Vermiculite I started using this year for my cuttings, which I found was getting quite wet/soggy but compacting quite quickly, which obviously could be a problem for the young delicate roots of new cuttings. Sure, the Sinclairs' is £9 a bag as opposed to £6 a bag for the Jacks Magic, but I feel the lighter texture of the Sinclairs' mix will really help with the establishing of young root systems far better than the Jacks Magic mix that I was using, so I am going to continue using the Sinclairs' mix for the rest of the cuttings season. I had another couple of cuttings just starting to root by the way, which I decided to pot up in the lighter Sinclairs'/Vermiculite mix, which I think will serve them well.
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Post by Raymond on Jan 27, 2016 21:50:43 GMT
Well it will be a decision to make soon hillcrest jersie is going mad with four shoots and two further eyes on one , another with two eyes and the first field tuber with eyes.
Staleen condessa going crazy with 6 shoots coming.
Do I take some early cuttings or cut back ? I think I will try a couple of early cuttings and cut some back and stop some others and root the side shoots. Need to try some different ways to see which works best for me.
I will use the vitopod again this year but at double height to help the air flow and also put up a small fan hopefully won't get that black rot/foot again. Going to use clonex gel instead of strike.
Very tempted to order either sheval Megan from halls or the cream Diane from frank Taylor. I must resist ! ! I must I must !
Pretty much sorted my list of what I would like to grow just playing with the numbers to maximise my options and also still let me trial some bits and pieces and keep some that are not the best for show but I like for the garden like Clearview Debby.
All in hope that next year I can then cut down vastly on varieties do the big numbers and try the novices at wisley if my allotment comes through .
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Post by Raymond on Jan 27, 2016 21:55:11 GMT
Good luck with everything jay65 and I hope your son is much better soon. |
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Post by Raymond on Jan 27, 2016 22:00:03 GMT
jay65 I used the levington m3 for potting on the rooted cuttings mixed with perlite. Thought it was excellent compost. Got some good compact plants in the end from that. I also liked the clover peat multipurpose but felt it dried out easily.
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jay65
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Post by jay65 on Jan 27, 2016 22:47:53 GMT
Good luck with everything jay65 and I hope your son is much better soon. Thanks so much. Our little one is slowly improving, but just when you think he is a little better he goes back a touch if you know what I mean. We had to call paramedics last night, but thankfully they weren't overly worried, but it gave us some reassurance. As for Sheval Megan, I'm going to pick up a few plants from Halls, it looks like a lovely variety. I'll just pop 5 of them in my garden to see how they go, then I should have some nice tubers to propagate from next year if the plants do well for me. So I'm with you on that, they look very tempting. I thought about ordering some Westerton JWH as well, to see how they go too actually. I think you're right about the double height vitopod. If anything I am finding my Geranium seedlings drying out slightly too much with 2 layers on. Maybe too much airflow if anything, so I can certainly see where you're coming from with that. It definitely helps with damping off for sure. |
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Post by dahliadave on Jan 27, 2016 23:02:09 GMT
Well Happy New Year everyone and welcome Jay65. Been a busy few weeks getting everything sorted for a new season. The heat went on the Dahlias first week in January and showing plenty growth.  This was last 10 days ago. We'll be taking a few cuttings early in but our first main batch won't be for a few weeks yet. Already got (dare I mention them!) 5000 or so Chrysanth cuttings on the go with the first batch just pulling root this week. So dull over the last 6 weeks or so that growth a bit behind-we don't use lights except for a very small area. Just hoping not too cold tonight as we have been having regular power cuts doe to a local network fault- nursery was off for 7 hours today! Should be fixed by the weekend- oh the joys!! Happy growing to all! |
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Post by dahliadave on Jan 27, 2016 23:05:00 GMT
Oops- maybe I'll resize the pictures next time! always some slower to come away than others. All in all we have 6 benches like this- some in blue trays to allow moving around if needed. all on soil warming cables and all in Clover compost.
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Post by jay65 on Jan 27, 2016 23:13:38 GMT
Hi Dave, nice to meet you. Great pictures by the way. Just what I aspire to in fact!! Dahlia Heaven. Haha. Though I'm not sure my other half would be too happy with that kind of commitment. It's bad enough with 120 tubers, let alone the 100's and 100's you have. But I still love it nonetheless. But your set up there has got me thinking about some new ideas for next year already.
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Post by ian on Jan 27, 2016 23:52:39 GMT
Well done Dave the 'Halls' tubers look the business hope you get lots of orders. Oh by the way happy new year all the best to you and yours.
You mentioned Clover compost this is probably as good as anything on the market , Clover Professional is excellent. Sinclairs is also excellent but quite expensive. Clover unless you are buying it in big quantities like David 'Dahliadave' is £4.50 - £6-00 per bag 70lt.
Raymond I would be taking the early cuttings and mother planting them especially with the Staleen. You know my thoughts about Jersie (compost) hehe
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Post by ian on Jan 27, 2016 23:59:59 GMT
Just an observation Dahliadave' on you photo of the tubers, the tuber half way down the bench Candy or Vals? tends to throw like a weed looks good. How's the Del a Hey doing?
All my very best Dave,
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Post by jay65 on Jan 28, 2016 0:58:34 GMT
Well done Dave the 'Halls' tubers look the business hope you get lots of orders. Oh by the way happy new year all the best to you and yours. You mentioned Clover compost this is probably as good as anything on the market , Clover Professional is excellent. Sinclairs is also excellent but quite expensive. Clover unless you are buying it in big quantities like David 'Dahliadave' is £4.50 - £6-00 per bag 70lt. Raymond I would be taking the early cuttings and mother planting them especially with the Staleen. You know my thoughts about Jersie (compost) hehe Thanks Ian. I'll try to hook up with a local supplier of Clover. I may even contact Clover direct to see if they can help with a list of suppliers in my area. Although I'm really happy with the Sinclairs', always good to try new things or have a 'back up'. Thanks. |
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Post by Raymond on Jan 28, 2016 9:23:23 GMT
I will mother plant hopefully ian with staleen. Had a look this morning. Two Michelle with eyes , staleen now got 8 eyes ! One jersie field tuber with eyes and both pot tubers either eyes or shoots or both . I know your feelings on it but will give it a bash this year and if no good then I will not grow again. I start the rest of mine next week. Some I will grow the pot tuber and not take cuttings I want to see the difference between a cutting and Tuber grown plant. dahliadave tubers look great . The ryecroft pixie, Tom mcclelland and the trelyn kiwis I got from you last year made excellent tubers one of the pixie is one of the biggest . |
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Post by jay65 on Jan 28, 2016 9:31:08 GMT
I will mother plant hopefully with staleen. Had a look this morning. Two Michelle with eyes , staleen now got 8 eyes ! One jersie field tuber with eyes and both pot tubers either eyes or shoots. I start the rest of mine next week. Some I will grow the pot tuber and not take cuttings I want to see the difference between a cutting and Tuber grown plant. dahliadave tubers look great . The ryecroft pixie and the trelyn kiwis I got from you last year made excellent tubers one of the pixie is one of the biggest . That's what I'm doing too. Some will be mother plants for more cuttings on the varieties that I'm short of numbers for, and some will be pot tubers. But I'm not far enough down the line to decide which will be which yet. The ones I'm likely to be short of numbers for are Oakwood Goldcrest, George Marston, Bracken Ballerina, Marys Jomanda, Kiwi Gloria, and Red Diamond which is still a complete 'no shows' after nearly 6 weeks on the heat. Fortunately most of those are from Dave at Halls, so I know he'll replace any 'no shows' with a plant. Which I can plant up and at least get a tuber out of it for next season anyhow. I need another reliable Med Dec if Red Diamond doesn't show, because I'm really short of Med Decs. |
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Post by jay65 on Jan 28, 2016 9:53:46 GMT
One of the Vitopods nearly full now with around 100 cuttings and various mother plants already potted on.  |
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