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

This Gold Seedling continues to pour out flowers. It's tag says it was a 2021 seedlings so I must have grown it form 2021 seeds this winter. I grew a lot of older seeds where I had just a few of each in an envelope. I think in 2021 I had BLoomquist Pumpkin i my patch. I think this one will be a keeper for me.

calico20hill

calico20hill THis pic looks rather washed out. It is a richer gold then this.

AndreaB

calico20hill Love this!

Teddahlia

Definitely a keeper.

Teddahlia

2022 seedling. Camera focus could be better on this cell phone picture. Small flower, probably miniature. Color nice for bouquets.

Teddahlia

Posted picture of this one over three days ago. It has not yet popped center and still looks very good on the nearly 6 foot tall plant.

calico20hill

So if a seedling does pop its center is there any way to "rebreed" to keep the good qualities but improve the center?
I have this one seedling that would be terrific if it kept its center. It may be a seedling of HH Black Beauty crossed with S Twilight Girl, (not sure)
The plant is everything I like...tall, strong, fern-leafed foliage. THe color is a fabulous black. There are lots of petals but the center has not been closed from the beginning/

SteveM

calico20hill nice color! I would try crossing it back to HH Black Beauty.

Cosey

You know when seeds germinate and you find all the albino ones that quickly wither and die. Then you have a few that plug along to meet their demise in the field when exposed to full sun? Well, I typically let nature take it's course but I had one seedling that seemed to continue to grow even through the hardening off process. 6 weeks later this light green seedling is still growing in the field! I wonder what the bloom will be!

Teddahlia

Pessimist in me says not enough chlorophyll means a plant that is not vigorous.

MissyWeitzel

Maybe it will be like that Oregon Sunset dahlia from Swan Islamd that has foliage that starts out yellow then later changes to green!

Cosey

Every time I walk by the light green plant I'm expecting it to be dead. But it hasn't given up the ghost yet. Longest living weirdo to date.

SteveM

Cosey With a purple bloom it would make an impressive garden dahlia. I have grown about 5 varieties of OP tomatoes with chartreuse leaves and they have been just as vigorous as the varieties with regular. green leaves. One variety sunburned but did well in the shade. I keep thinking I need to fertilize them.

Cosey

SteveM I will update if it does anything. Like Ted said, they usually die well before week 8 in the field.

Cosey

Seedling from the Beeline II seed sourced from Dr Keith Hammett. They will all be singles but so many of them have beautiful foliage and near perfect petals. We just finished construction on a front porch to our house. Next year I can have an entire collection of active pollinator, semi dwarf dahlias in front of my house. 😀 Not having to worry about staking is a huge plus.

SteveM

Cosey Not having to worry about staking is a huge plus.

Breeding for compact garden dahlias that don't require staking is a niche that doesn't seem to be filled yet. There is a lot of commercial r/d money being spent on dwarf dahlias but very little on taller, self-supporting varieties.

Teddahlia

Dr. Hammett is very generous with the genes that make for dark foliage. It took him many years to concentrate the genes and I remember a comment made by him that dark foliage is dependent on several genes and not just one or two. When you have the right combination of genes you get the dark foliage.

Bessie

SteveM , great information regarding company growing dahlias that don't need staking. Thanks!

Cosey

SteveM What if there could be a commercially propagated and distributed dahlia that didn't require a growth hormone regulator? I mean, it would actually look like a dahlia instead of a stunted hobbit shrub with ratty deformed blooms. Such a novel idea. 💡

Teddahlia

6 feet tall and Barbie pink. This is a miniature flower at just under 4 inches. 2023 seedling. Perhaps 6 feet is too tall for Ken. Margaret likes this one too. It gets the coveted T & M like award.

KitCMC

Teddahlia it’s a beauty!

Cosey

Teddahlia Excellent job with Gen Z, on trend marketing. 🩷

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