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Post by keith on Mar 17, 2019 4:34:51 GMT
I hope all this makes sense. I have never seen any thing like it over the 30++ years I have been growing Dahlias on and off. I noticed these two flowers on the one plant and I immediately thought I had planted two Tubers together by mistake. On close examination I noticed both on the one thick stem but branching out to two thin stems. Its St Patrick's day not the first of April Does this happen often? This is one Tuber and plant I will be looking after to see if it happens again.    Keith |
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Post by Geumlover on Mar 17, 2019 8:42:08 GMT
It is called a 'sport' and it is often how new variations occur. The experts will be able to ell you why and what to do with it.
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Post by keith on Mar 18, 2019 0:52:18 GMT
Geumlover
We often get "Sports" on the Camellias but never on the Dahlias.
Keith
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 18, 2019 18:06:29 GMT
Not only the colour keith but the first one looks to be fimbriated as well |
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Post by keith on Mar 19, 2019 2:55:30 GMT
Sweetpea
Yes that it makes it even more confusing. It will be very interesting when the remainder of the bulbs flower.
Keith
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Post by johndoe on Mar 24, 2019 10:27:11 GMT
Hi Keith. Sporting in Dahlia's is quite common. Dahlias are rare amongst plants, as they are octoploids, meaning the have 8 set's of genes, double the amount of other species. That's why there are so many classes of dahlia, and of course so many varieties as well. With this genetic make up and cross pollination you'll sometimes find a plant will produce a shoot with a bloom of different colour, which could have been a parent plant previously. On occasions you can secure the sport by taking cuttings from the selected stem. Sometimes they will just break down and revert to the original flower, and other time will become established plants themselves.
I hope some of that makes sense!!
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Post by johndoe on Mar 24, 2019 10:37:48 GMT
To follow up on my previous post, here are some photos of a sport I tried to secure, without success a couple of years ago. The variety is Westerton Southside, which is photo one. The second photo is the sport. Sadly none of the three cutting's I took survived. My theory is the plant had be accidently crossed pollinated with another variety raised by the same raiser called Westerton Ella Grace, which has gone on to be one of the best selling and exhibited varieties of last year. This is in photo three.
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Post by growingnshowing on Aug 4, 2024 19:33:17 GMT
Hi
So I stumbled across this conversation as I was looking at my Dahlia Rachel she and David Howard, being orange in colour.. Rachel had gone bare for a short period but as soon as she started blossoming I noticed that her new flowers had gone red. One currently left in red and the others have ombred so now multi colour flowers. All different. Still beautiful.
And I also have Dinnerplate Dahlia Noordwijks Glorie Orange Summer Flowers but the first one decided he was going to change colour just as the pentals became fuller. Not only that I also have one that doesn't even have the right flower but the other 4 coming off that plant are the same. Let me see if I can upload
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Post by balc2 on Aug 4, 2024 20:06:44 GMT
Sounds interesting & I'd be interested to know how you get on with them during the rest of the summer!
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