Dahlia tuber help
Andrew Darland
3 years ago
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3 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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WANTED: Have dahlia clumps will trade for other dahlia tubers
Comments (5)These are still available. Have some extras to trade: please make offers, am looking for mostly lilies, and dahlias, voodoo lilies, bat flowers, brugs, hibiscus (tropical) etc. Glads - Passos (purple/dark purple spots) Glads - firecracker ( yellow and orange) Bleeding heart pink only 1 (bought roots) Lily Stargazer Hollyhock black only 1 (bought roots) dahlia - arabian night myrtles folly bristol stripe tahiti sunrise...See Moreshriveled dahlia tubers
Comments (27)Water often starts rot. I never soak tubers in water, as their fine feeder roots are destroyed when originally dug from the ground... they can't drink water without them. Very little moisture will set the tuber's growth in motion, if there is any life in it. Sorry to say, but the dead tissue of the outer tuber is soaking up that water like a sponge, and that is not a good thing. I would throw them all in one pot with some dried soil above and below, and let it sit for several weeks. Excavate it carefully in mid-March, and see if there are any shoots. Repot those living tubers into single pots, and be very conservative in the amount of water you give it... just enough that the soil is cool to the touch, not wet, until there are leaves spreading out. By then, feeder roots are established, and the tuber can handle excess water. Good luck!...See MoreHelp!! My Dahlia tubers are going soft on me!!
Comments (1)The advantage of the Saran Wrap method, or my recycled plastic grocery store bag method, is that it stops dehydrationi to a large extent. When tubers are stored in peat moss, or wood shavings, they do have extra insulation, but the media can absorb moisture from the tubers. If I were you, I would not dry them too long, but rather after a day, now that they are cleaned etc, get them into the recycled grocery store bag with fungicide, or the saran wrap. Check out the other comments on this forum. I would NOT toss them. You never know, they may just make it....See MoreNew to Dahlias. help my tubers are drying out
Comments (14)Love opposing views. I have been storing dahlia tubers in plastic bags for over 20 years now and I do not seal the bag so there is some air getting in there and my success rate is outstanding. I store several thousand tubers each year. Not only do cardboard boxes wick moisture but they also can rot when they they get moist and can cause rotten tubers. And I have heard of very many people having their entire crop of tubers eaten by mice that chewed through the cardboard boxes. I experimented with the potting soil and put my best tubers in it. They stored much worse than those in vermiculite and sprouted in storage weeks before the others. Sprouting while in storage is not good. Potting soil is not a good storage medium. I would use nothing at all in preference to potting soil. Swan island Dahlias uses no storage medium and places their tubers into plastic tulip crates that are lined on the top and bottom with sheets of newspaper. There success rate is pretty good and they store several hundred thousand tubers each year. However, they have a dedicated potato root cellar for their storage facility and the temps an humidity are ideal. Off gassing does not occur in plastic bags at any rate that hurts tubers if you use vermiculite in the bag and/or you dry the tubers before storage....See MoreAndrew Darland
3 years agoAndrew Darland
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