Dahlias look wilted in the sun ?
mandolls
13 years ago
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Dahlia wilted and died
Comments (6)i dont have time.. nor patience [actually its a harecore coffee buzz.. lol] to do this flowery.. dont read in any 'tone' .. the greatest conundrum in growing things in pots in the house.. you see wilt.. so you water it.. i have killed many a plant this way.. wilt means the roots arent processing water.. you default to more water.. been there.. done that ... you have rotted the roots off.. as i have many a time.. you need: better potting media.. you need to let them near dry.. and see if they have enough un-rotted roots to survive... and should sterilize your media before you use it... the pathogen may have come in the media ... and you have to learn to let things near dry ... in between drenching ... ten more years of practice.. and you should be all set ... dont give up ... and i do hope some survive .... ken Here is a link that might be useful: i use the micorwave ... if i have 4 pots.. i use 5 pot fulls.. dampen.. and heat...See MoreClematis ?wilt? in the sun
Comments (8)Thank you for answering! Interesting points of view, well, I don't think it's lack of water, as the ground is wet underneath the mulch and darker in color. At the feet of the clematis I put miniature roses, maybe they're too much for the clems? the miniatures are doing fine, by the way. The rose is an unknown climbing rose, that I planted bareroot and I lost the plastic bag that it came in. the flowers are medium large with lots of petals, perfumed slightly and pink. Heavy flowers on skinny stems. The two clematis that are doing the sad show are both Rouge Cardinal, and each has a couple of flowers. One is very interesting, in that it gave me initially two blue- purple flowers,that were identified here on the forum as Jackmanii Superba, but now it gave me red-magenta deep flowers, just like Rouge Cardinal, which was the label. dont know what to believe, maybe they were two little roots tangled in the pot. I have other new clems on the sides which do not wilt so badly. But the Rouges would fall off the trelis if they weren;t suspended with little ropes, they are so limp every afternoon. I hope I'm not overwatering, I don't water if it looks like rain, and when I do it is in the early mornings. I like the idea of "aclimatisation stress" I hope that's the problem here, even if they've been in the ground for about 6 weeks now. ( they came in 1gallon pots, from costco) It is not mildew I've seen that before and I know they don't have it. They do have alot of earwig holes though, I keep killing them all the time....See MoreDahlia Wilt on One of Two Primary Stems
Comments (5)You're welcome, but sorry for the loss of your dahlia. My planted areas look like a mess to me: never will be lovely formal gardens, more like basic cultivated planting areas. But that's how it goes when you live on rock-filled clay soil. Here's the new dahlia bed coming along. It's hard to envision grass surrounding rows of lovely flowers, but that's my hope, once the soil dries out,the mud goes away and all that soil gets put in place. New veggie mix soil hauled in by machine! Saved me hours of hard labor loading and unloading it myself. I can't say how many kitty litter buckets I've loaded and hauled with rocks sifted from this bed, but I'd wager it's easily in the 200 range and more to go... Close up of the "soil" but I must say this was one of the worst areas: couldn't even shovel here without bouncing off rocks. I'm very appreciative of the fine wonderful stuff that emerges when the rocks get taken out. I will never, ever do this again. I have enough planting room now if not for dahlias for veggies which have taken a back seat to flowers....See More1 Dahlia Wilting out of 20...?
Comments (4)Crisis averted, was reading on here and someone mentioned stem damage as well as tuber being eaten so I went out, dug it up and the tubers look great so I figured wasn't that--then noticed somehow the stem had been damaged. It must have happened a little bit ago as there are already new sprouts coming from the tuber and under the damaged area (which I trimmed off), but how bizarre just yesterday it was still fine and today is when it manifested--must have just gotten to the point where it was no longer drawing nutrients/water. So it's been set back a fair amt as now the new sprouts have to grow before I'll see any blooms, but I'm glad it wasn't something more nefarious or a critter eating the tuber etc. I was worried about the 19 other dahlias in the bed!...See Morecindysunshine
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