Dahlias: Glad to be back in the dirt!, 3 by Oberon46

Oberon46 wrote:
these show my dahlias and some of the tubers from which I took cuttings. I couldn't find the little styrofoam cuts for the bottoms so used clear cups. Plus is that I can see the dirt and the roots as they appear. Negative is that the tops keep getting bumped askew which doesn't happen with the styrofoam cups.

the shot which shows large leaved plants under cups --- these turned out to be rather big for propagating. They didn't turn out as well as the ones I got early on that were skinny stems with just a couple of small leaves on top. I think the larger leaves were too much to support for the rooting system. My guess anyway. As it was I ended up with about 8 Kaiser Wilhelms from one tuber and at least as many Hockley Maroons from another. both are heirloom dahlias from OHG.

This message was edited Mar 7, 2012 9:58 AM