Dahlias - possible cuttings-swap Spring 2013?

I've moved this thread over from the Canna's thread

You mean more colours, or more plants of what you have?

They are easy to raise from cuttings in the Spring. I reckon I get 5, sometimes more, from each nice fat tuber I save overwinter.

I should have enough to spare some cuttings for you next spring if you like? Perhaps we should have a Dahlia Cuttings Swap Thread for next Spring?

I have these:

Acapulco


Arabian Night *
Bishop of Llandaff
Black Wizard *

City of Rotterdam


Dark Spirit


David Howard *


Emory Paul *


Karma Choc


Rebeccas World


Twyning's after eight


(* Sorry, unlikely to have spare cuttings)

 

My Wants List includes:

Red Border (mostly from Hidcote Red Border plant list):
Alva's Doris

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/alva-s-doris.html

Blaisdon Red

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/blaisdon-red.html

Bloodstone

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/bloodstone.html

Bryn Terfel (Seen at East Ruston)

http://www.deeproot.co.uk/pbo/plantdetail.php?plantname=Dahlia 6I927Bryn Terfel6I927

Doris Day

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/doris-day.html

Firemountain

http://www.dahliaguy.com/catalog.html

Grenadier

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/grenadier.html

Kochelsee

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/kochelsee.html

Night Queen


Red Diamond

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/red-diamond.html

Red Pygmy

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/red-pygmy-syn-red-princess.html

Scarlet Comet

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/scarlet-comet.html

Wittemans Superba

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/wittemans-superba.html

Zorro

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/zorro.html

Others:
Bishop of Auckland

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/bishop-of-auckland.html
Not sure it looks different enough to Llandaff

Blue Bell

http://www.angliabulbs.com/dahlia-blue-bell-p-360.html

Fidalgo Blacky

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/fidalgo-blacky.html

Tam Tam

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/tam-tam.html

 

Mine were mostly grown from wilko seed so sorry i have non on your want list,it was my 1st yr with dahlias,ive been collecting the seeds just to see what i get next yr from them kristen.
slugs ate the majority of them but i did mange to get a few

 

Don't worry about that, my Wants List is just that ... a sometime-never-maybe list!

 

Thanks. Reds and Whites (not on my Want's list) is what I'm after. The ones on my Wants List happen to be from the Planting List for the Red / "Hot" Border at Hidcote, so I assume they are sufficiently "special" to have warranted that, so I'm just nicking their plant list ... but in reality any Reds would probably do

Haven't found a posh Planting List for a white border yet, so am not so snobbish about White varieties

 

Ive got a no name white one a bit plain but bees like it


i need to learn how to do dahlia cuttings next

 

That's a beautiful bee piccie Joolz,

 

Thank you jenny xx

 

On a scale of 1-to-10 they are easy.

Lift the tubers in the Autumn and store over winter (I store them in spend multi purpose from other projects). I dampen the compost occasionally, but it depends what temperature you keep them at.

In the early Spring give them some heat so they start to sprout. When the shoots are about 6 inches long (at least 4 leaf nodes) I cut them just above the bottom leaf node (so that it shoots, and I get two more from that one later), and then cut the cutting immediately below the leaf node (so that would be the second leaf node up from the tuber, you've left the bottom leaf node on the parent) and treat it like any other cutting. I stick a plastic bag over it and put it on a windowsill in the house so it has some warmth (as my conservatory is unheated and probably a bit cold at night to get cuttings to root).

Some people cut the shoot off at the tuber, sometimes including a sliver of tuber, but I think that reduces the next "crop" of shoots for more cuttings, hence I take them just above a leaf node so that the buds that are left break, and provide more cuttings (or a branched plant to plant out if it becomes to late to take more cuttings)

Grow on and possibly plant out a bit later than the tubers themselves, depending on how quickly they grow. The first round of cuttings I take are usually large enough to plant out with the tubers, but the later batches may get planted out quite a bit later, once they have made decent sized plants.

This site is fairly handy: http://www.jrg-dahlias.co.uk/new_page_3.htm

 

roll on spring

 

Kristen,

Is Zorro the giant red one?
I could have a spare tuber, but I need to check.

 

http://www.national-dahlia-collection.co.uk/en/zorro.html describe it as "Giant Decorative", so I reckon that's the one (Picture available on that link)

 

I grow dahlias too, like twynings after eight, bishop, and a wonderful variety called Honka. This is a simple, splayed finger type unlike most other,dahlias. It's charm is in its simplicity. It's butter yellow. ,I grow blue salvias nearby and a blue grass to its other side. I live not far from the national dahlia collection held in Cornwall.