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Post by Tel on Dec 27, 2012 8:25:12 GMT
The dahlia seedlings tubers including Garden Friends, are now in the seed trays on the bench. I was going to place them in the heated propagator, but i do not know where it is. ;D
The show varieties will go on the bench in Jan. First cuttings from a lot of them will be to thick to use, the second cuttings are usually ok to root.
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Post by dcdahlia on Dec 27, 2012 9:43:00 GMT
I start all mine at the same time.I use parrafin heaters under the bench for bottom heat and a blow heater on a thermostat set at 10 degrees for air temp.I try and root the first cuttings as long as thay are not to thick,and I use these as mother plants,taking the growing tip out at 3/4 pairs of leaves.This gives you 4/6 cuttings per mother plant,the mother plant is then kept for next seasons pot tubers.
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Post by robh on Dec 28, 2012 13:37:56 GMT
scrumpy will mine be ok to start in march in the greenhouse i dont show them so was thinking that will be early enough
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 28, 2012 17:07:11 GMT
My Halls of Heddon catalogue arrrived today ;D
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Post by robh on Dec 28, 2012 19:33:09 GMT
so did mine a bit late though
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Post by Lou78W on Dec 28, 2012 20:40:31 GMT
Late?....not too late to order though ;D
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Post by scrumpy on Dec 28, 2012 21:15:32 GMT
scrumpy will mine be ok to start in march in the greenhouse i dont show them so was thinking that will be early enough Should be fine. If you start in March, under ideal conditions, eyes should appear within a few weeks, and from those eyes the first cuttings will come a few weeks later. So starting them off 1st March, your 1st cutting should be rooted by about 10th April. From that first cutting, new eyes form, so in theory cuttings from that should be ready by 1st week in May. We start them earlier to get a better selection of cuttings by mid April. |
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Post by dcdahlia on Dec 29, 2012 9:17:33 GMT
Heat is now on in greenhouse.Getting picked up at 10.30 for a ride out to the crooklands hotel near kendal,the north west dahlia society have a meeting on and dave gillam is doing a talk,should be interesting.
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Post by marynz on Dec 29, 2012 21:32:33 GMT
That should be interesting. Please pass on any pearls of wisdom, dcdahlia.
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Post by dcdahlia on Dec 31, 2012 20:56:44 GMT
Found out from dave gillam on saturday what the fairy dust he talks about on his videos is.It is a maize fertillizer.
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Post by marynz on Jan 1, 2013 5:00:51 GMT
Hmmm, and what do they fertilise maize with in your part of the world?
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Post by candyblue on Jan 1, 2013 22:06:59 GMT
Well our Halls catalogue has had a lot of use since it has come and it appears with OHs persuasion that we are getting 9 new varieties this year!!
Only a couple of a couple of varieties which we will then take cuttings from next year and in my defense we have culled a lot of varieties from last year and have more space
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Post by marynz on Jan 2, 2013 4:19:00 GMT
What will your new ones be, Candy?
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