can I root broken dahlia stems?
linnea56 (zone 5b Chicago)
17 years ago
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Comments (3)Yes the cutting will root - assuming it is a growing tip and not just a leaf branch - just like tomatoes will. But they do take longer than tomatoes to generate roots and need a little more care until they do. Dave...See MoreBroken neck stem tuber, fall aparted clump, do I still grow them?
Comments (3)If you look carefully at the tuber, you should see some tiny hair-like roots coming out of one end. That is the bottom. Sure, plant them in a pot and see whether they grow. I am just now potting some up, as they are just now starting to break dormancy. I agree, it is hard to tell the top and bottom of some. I also purchased some which fell apart. Actually when I started looking at them, I realized fairly quickly that there were several tubers wrapped around each other. I actually slowly twisted them apart, and got potentially more plants for the price of one. Now that is a good thing. Not all tubers will produce plants as some are there merely to store food. There needs to be an eye, and some eyes are very hard to see at first. I examined one just yesterday, and thought that there would probably be no plant coming from this particularly huge tuber (10" long). This morning, I can see the eye has swollen, and I know that I will have a beautiful red cactus style dahlia this summer which will grow to about 4 feet. Yahoo ! That is one I really wanted to save and multiply. Here is a small tuber, somewhat similar on both ends, but there are roots on one. These have developed over the past few weeks in a moist mixture. Originally, one could hardly tell the difference. That is why I lay it horizontally to help me determine where the roots are. Once planted the top end will definitely be up. Here is what a typical dahlia from the package looks like. Notice the stem. As you can see, there are many eyes on this one. Some folks like to cut off all but one eye. I like to get my exacto knife out and split them, making more plants. Read up about that first though. Here is a long tuber. One can hardly see the difference. If one looks VERY closely at the right hand side, one sees the eye starting to develop. Here is a closeup of the developing eye....starting to leaf. Isn't Mother Nature wonderful?...See MoreSo i can stick a leaf with stem into soil to root? correct?
Comments (9)One more for the road. Another spinach container filled with a little soil. You cannot see the two very large green leaves in there but the little green ones on the right side are from the big leaf under all the rest of leaves on the left side. I put this down from a friend back in August but am unwilling to move it out this time of year so it will stay until spring. The rest of the leaves have been added over the fall months. I dropped the container and probably ended up kicking it as well (by accident - clumsy big feet) which disturbed the soil but no harm done. Just shook it a little to settle everything and put it back under lights. The first two big leaves were started outdoors in this container in the shade. No water has been added since I started it - the moisture from the leaves and whatever was in the potting mix is all it needed. Easy? You bet. The problem is separating everything later on - it always puts stress on the plants....See Moreroots of my plant got broken off from plant can i put them in water
Comments (6)Not knowing where you live -- it's getting late on a Friday night and you'll need to get started on this in morning. So right now stay calm and someone may chime in to tell you what to do with the crown in the meantime. Tomorrow you can get your potting mix and supplies together, and plant the crown. Nothing can grow from the roots though. Can you post a picture of the crown next to something to give us a sense of it's size. (Perhaps a dollar bill or ruler.)...See Morelinnea56 (zone 5b Chicago)
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