Dahlia Seedling Pictures - 2023

Bessie · 2023-05-25T15:02:05+00:00

First blooming plant from January 18, 2023 seed sowing. Alloway Candy is seed parent, unknown pollen parent.

calico20hill

I took this pic to show the progression of these flowers throug a day in the vase. On the left, Salish Breaking Dawn has tucked its sun faded petals out of sight and getton quite fluffy and with luchous coral/raspberry tones. I think th e "round ones" are all seedlings and I like them all...looking very nice. Turning the vase a bit shows Bloomquist Alan who has done a lot of color chaning. The colors ae srft of blending together now and I like them with the lavender gladioli. It has been keeping me entertained while I ice and rest my knee. I love the coppery tones of the ninebark I used with this.

Juliarugula

calico20hill beautiful! BQ Alan has been really nice for me this year too. What are the purple conical flowers? They’re really cute!

Krista

calico20hill Beautiful, Noni! I love the pinky bloom in the upper right - how nice to have such a gorgeous bouquet while you rest up.

AndreaB

calico20hill gorgeous!

calico20hill

Juliarugula Those are Agastache . One of the plants that keep popping up as seedlings long after you have eliminated them from your cutting patch!

calico20hill

Krista That "pinky bloom" is Bloomquist Alan. First bloom of it for me. It goes through some interesting color changes as it opens and has so many petals! It still has center on it that is not open . This is its first bloom for me.

Krista

calico20hill Oh no kidding - I didn’t recognize it with the color shift! Thank you, I had no idea it changed so much.

Teddahlia

Variegated BB IC, I need to check to se what is the seed parent. Second bloom and Margaret likes this one too.

Cosey

SteveM This is a really important point and perspective. Thanks for sharing it! Could you imagine getting cuttings for less than a $1 now. 😱 Storing tubers requires next level skill so I can understand why they treated them like annuals especially in a warmer climate.

calico20hill

Here is my nice surprise from one of the seedling patchs.... It is a seedling from Wyn's NEW Pastel. Looks like it will be a B sized bloom and I hope it holds its center . I had a lot of seedlings from Wyn's NEW Pastel so this is just the first of them to bloom.

Krista

calico20hill Ohhh beautiful, the coloring is so lovely - I can’t wait to see more of her sisters!

AndreaB

calico20hill Beautiful. Love the color and form.

Teddahlia

I am cruising the seedlings today and I stop in my tracks as I see a perfectly formed miniature formal decorative flower in coral pink. Divine form and I take several pictures. Then I crawl on the ground to determine what is the parent of this magnificent seedling. The tag has my typical almost illegible scribble in sharpie ink: it says 22-06 or Dikara Superb. Obviously, it is Dikara Superb. Nice healthy stock. I will not be entering it into the trial gardens.

calico20hill

I feel your chagrin...

Teddahlia

When we started breeding in the early 1990s, Chilson's Pride was the most planted dahlia of all. We liked the colors but it could fade and the tips of the peals would get notches in hot weather. It always made lots of easy keeping tubers. We saved seeds from it and anything that sort of looked like it and none of the seedlings were even halfway good. We gave up on that goal.
Now it is 2023 and we may have a really nice seedling that looks like Chilson's Pride. It is totally unrelated to C. Pride and is actually a result of several years of our breeding.
The real thing from Lobaugh's Dahlias

KristinS

Teddahlia I like this one a lot more than Chilson's Pride! I love how well the tubers store for Chilson's Pride though! Hopefully it is a great tuber maker for you too. Beautiful!

calico20hill

I have to say, I like your flower much better. I got so tired of dealing with all the blooms Chilson's Pride put out and none of my customers wanted it because they were too used to it. Now nearly 20 years later maybe there will be a new appetite for it. It looks like yours has the same split tips when it is warm out...

calico20hill

Correction...doesn't have the split tips! I was looking at the Lobaughts flower on the screen here, Yoursi is quite an improvement.

Teddahlia

However, ours does not have the incredible back story of Nick Gitts SR giving it to Carl Chilson.

NCDahlia

I like both , but your seeding I like the ends of the petals more? I have always felt Chilson's Pride and the split tip look is like "we can be better"

Teddahlia

another picture

AndreaB

Teddahlia Sign me up! Another HH winner.

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