2023 - Dahlia Blooms

edewitt · 2023-06-17T14:24:58+00:00

It's a bit early but at some point everyone's going to need a place to share their glorious dahlia photos. I've got a bloom from one of the cuttings I took...

calico20hill

calico20hill Also, picture autumn foliage in the park surrounding the setting for the wedding......

KitCMC

Valley Porcupine

Jean Shaw

Roque Starburst

Woodland’s Wildthing

Krista

KitCMC Wow, Cate, these are all gorgeous and such nice photos of them - your Woodland’s Wildthing is a total babe!

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edewitt ! I’m speechless!

edewitt

Hollyhill Tigerstripe is just as I was hoping it would be.

Juliarugula

edewitt that’s gorgeous! I’ve tried this one 2 years in a row now from 2 different sources, and wound up with only all red flowers both times. I mean, they were pretty impressive all red flowers…

KitCMC

edewitt wow! Nice!

blown_dry

edewitt Gorgeous!

edewitt

Juliarugula I'm glad this one didn't revert back to just red. My HH Funhouse, HH 6-In-1, and HH Wicked Witch have all ended up with solid red blooms so far. This was a rough year for my garden due to how absolutely hot & dry it was and the limited amount water I could use.

MissyWeitzel

edewitt I just bought HH Wicked Witch for the first time and have been wondering if I have a mislabel. The second bloom is opening all dark red. Now I know what may have happened!

KitCMC

Teddahlia

Krista

Thanks for the history, Ted! Bill sure did a nice job with this one. I got it to try converting my orange-loving kid into a dahlia enthusiast, but I think it’s converted me to an orange, cactus form dahlia grower!

Teddahlia

The late Bill Mishler, who bred Woodland's Wild Thing, has read your post on the "happily in heaven " website that we mortals are not allowed to access(yet). It was his favorite one that he bred.

Juliarugula

Bummer. Looks like my HH Tempest is blooming solid this year too. HH Funhouse bloomed solid red also (both of these were from plants that were variegated last year). Is variegation affected by fertilizer/weather/soil/stress? Or is reversion to a solid totally random, bad luck?

Teddahlia

Blame the instability of variegated dahlias on the scientist named Barbara McClintock who won the Nobel prize in 1983 for identifying the gene that causes variegation. Many people call them "jumping genes"(also called transposons) as they jump from the place where they work to somewhere where they do not work. And then they quite often "jump back" to the correct place and make the flower variegated again. Our Tempest would have solid flowers and variegated flowers on the same plant. Funhouse has been hesitant to return to variegated but I personally like the red version better.

Juliarugula

Teddahlia Many people call them "jumping genes"(also called transposons) as they jump from the place where they work to somewhere where they do not work. And then they quite often "jump back" to the correct place and make the flower variegated again.

That’s fascinating. So maybe I should keep trying with ones that have gone solid?

Teddahlia

Solid sports usually revert back some time in the future. However, it is not unusual for the jumping gene to "jump too far" and never come back. My mentor Phil Mingus disliked variegated flowers as he culled the solid flower plants and had fewer tubers to sell. Some variegated varieties almost never sport solid. HH Spreckles has never sported solid for me. And I bet the solid sport would be a real nice flower. By the way, some y/red variegated flowers have been known to sport to solid yellow although it is very rare.

Juliarugula

Sandia Tiger is looking soooo good.

edewitt

JS Jenny is a highlighter yellow

I ordered Hollyhill Electra from a vendor and accidentally got Hapet Electra instead. Fortunately Ted sent me some mystery tubers and I'm quite sure this is HH Electra.

My Sellwood Glory I was so excited about ended up being Shadowcat or something like that. Quite disappointing.

AndreaB

edewitt JS Jenny is a highlighter yellow

So that’s a thing? I had a NOID that Julia so kindly helped me ID earlier in the season, as JS Jenny.
I had taken a cutting and the second plant has been blooming yellow. It was the correct form, but I was still baffled. Glad I can finally move on from that mystery!

edewitt My Sellwood Glory I was so excited about ended up being Shadowcat or something like that. Quite disappointing.

I bet I know where you bought it. The same thing happened to me. Sooo disappointing.

edewitt

AndreaB I bet I know where you bought it. The same thing happened to me. Sooo disappointing.

Yeah I'm not sure how to go about letting a couple vendors know I was sent the wrong tuber. I know I didn't get anything mixed up because I'm overly meticulous when it comes to keeping track of which tuber is which.

Juliarugula

AndreaB So that’s a thing? I had a NOID that Julia so kindly helped me ID earlier in the season, as JS Jenny.
I had taken a cutting and the second plant has been blooming yellow. It was the correct form, but I was still baffled. Glad I can finally move on from that mystery!

I actually think the bright yellow is JS Jerry isn’t it? And the orangey-gold is JS Jenny? I don’t know what to make of an orange-turned yellow though.

Speaking of mislabels. My Sandia Cancan that was soooooo pokey and tiny, that I’ve been waiting forever to bloom, finally bloomed. And it’s Sandia Gold. No wonder it was so slow - my other Sandia Golds also have taken their sweet time.

Teddahlia

Helen Bair used to sell tubers and had a 30% mis marking rate. We all knew it before we bought. She really tried but it was the chickens fault.

Bessie

Juliarugula I have a Sandia Melody that has started blooming in the past few days and a Sandia Gold budded up with color. After seeing the Hollyhill waterlilies for the past few months, my first reaction was to dump the underwhelming Sandia plants and blooms. Any opinions? Should I rethink that instinct to just get rid of the Sandia Melody and Sandia Gold(yet to bloom)?

AndreaB

Juliarugula The JS Jenny/Jerry was supposed to be Wyn’s Farmer John. I’ll cull the yellow one. More than likely will give Jenny another chance, as I do like that form.
I’ve seen others posting Sandia Gold recently. Seems to be a slow poke, but a nice reward for having patience! Too bad about Sandia Cancan. It’s no fun when your mislabel is one you already have.

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