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.

Teddahlia

I believe it was grown from tubers and we have about 3 or 4 plants. If it makes halfway decent tubers and I can get Margaret to name it, I bet we could sell a lot of it in one more year. I looked up the definition of "flame" dahlias and orange and yellow together can be a flame. It does look it is on fire.

Cosey

One of the last seeds to germinate and one of the first to bloom. Seeds were not part of my seed parent bed but field harvested from HH Code Red. It was planted with all other doubled but no ball forms.

KitCMC

Cosey really pretty! Both form and color!

calico20hill

Wow! Stunning with the dark stems on it as well!

Cosey

calico20hill The stems are as solid as sticks. Which is great because it's growing on the western edge of the field and recent summer storms have been punishing. 😵‍💫

Teddahlia

Florets are much flatter than Code Red.

Cosey

Teddahlia Code Red was surrounded by formal decs in the field. I always felt like the color of Code Red was the perfect Valentine red. Unfortunately, due to a communication error my Code Reds were mixed up with some other HH dahlias at dividing time. Unmarked or potentially mislabeled tubers get thrown in the mystery box lot. So they are all growing around the country this year. 🤗

calico20hill

Cosey It looks like a fabuous cut flower.

Teddahlia

HH Code Red was the top scorer at a trial garden back when. There are so many nice formal decorative red flowers out there but it is a personal favorite. It seems to be a survivor as it was a 2014 seedling. It has Barbarry Red Dwarf and Chimacum Troy genes. Hard to get those to breed with these days.

calico20hill

Salish Sundown Here is one I have been working with for 3 years...it is a seedling of Salish Twilight Girl ..by far the most interesting one. It was mostly open center the first year but for 3 years now I have been selecting the best seedling that still carry the color pattern and it is vastly improved. I really enjoy using this one in bouquets...so much one can do with it! And it has sthat tall sturdy plant with long stems and the fernlieaf foliage.

Juliarugula

calico20hill that variegated one is so cool! I hope it keeps doing well for you!

Krista

calico20hill Ohhhh swoon!

Cosey

calico20hill I love this one. Nothing else quite like it!

Teddahlia

I like this seedling and it is a micro fully double(with a nice closed center) and with a wink of the judge, it may be classified as a stellar. It gets the "Ted Likes" award but lacks the "Margaret Likes" award. She is not much of a "micro" dahlia person. Less than 2 inches in diameter.

MissyWeitzel

Teddahlia I'm having so much fun with my micro collarettes this year and would love a double micro dahlia. That one is really cool! I brought some to one of my florist shops as an extra this week and the florists loved them too, even with shorter stems.

calico20hill

Ted, Your Micro is so cute! I would love to grow that! I am always fascinated with teeny tiny flowers . With the right tiny containers it would be so cute to make little bouquets to go at each place setting for something like a baby shower, or birthday party.

MissyWeitzel

I accidentally pinched my seedlings so my first one to bloom took forever!
Last year I planted like forms together and culled open center dahlias before starting to mark new blooms to eventually save seeds from. When I grew seeds in previous years I didn't save any information about seed parent. This year I'm excited to have more information about them.
This is the only Kelgai Ann seedling to survive my foolish hands this spring. Not a waterlily but it is loaded in buds and my florists will certainly use it. It's funny because I think I can guess where the pollen came from and it wasn't from all the nearby waterlilies. Unfortunately I think it came from Jayleene G, and inherited the shimmer, nice plant and stems part but also unfortunately the form. 😕

KitCMC

MissyWeitzel so exciting! I can’t wait to see what your seedling patch unfurls this summer!

Teddahlia

I hesitate to post seedling pictures onto Facebook or Instagram as there are too many people who immediately bug you to buy the un-named hopeful flower. One of our minor goals is to produce waterlies of different sizes and here is picture of a really
nice, very small waterlily. Breeding happens in two ways: (1) You carefully control pollen and cross two selected plants and double up on good genes and add good genes to the seedlings in a very scientific way (2) You accidentally get something you did not expect and it is really nice. This seedling is in the latter category.

Cosey

Remember this lime green seedling. Amazingly, it's still chugging along and even developed a (purple) bud. Maybe later this week it will bloom. It's been surviving 8+ hrs of sunlight and my normal field management of IPM and fungicide sprays with little to no damage to the leaf. Mites are leaving it alone

SteveM

Cosey That's great, LeeAnn! You are going to need yet another isolated bed to carry this line forward.

KitCMC

Cosey purple with chartreuse is such a great color combination! Cheering her on!

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