Dahlia Seedling Pictures - 2024

Bessie · 2024-05-25T17:40:24+00:00

First to bloom seedlings May 21st to May 25th. I don't think there are any keepers here, but I'll wait and observe for a while. I do like the ruffled petals...

MissyWeitzel

Teddahlia yes, the judging seminar is for the midwest conference. The trial garden is near Elkhart and as a result it seems the Elkhart dahlia society does a lot of the heavy lifting for the MDC as a whole. They host the annual meeting and do a lot of the organizational tasks year-round. Great people there!!

DarcyD

Teddahlia 10 minutes?!? 🙈

Teddahlia

Personal rules: (1)Never post a picture of a first year seedling(2) Never post the picture of the first flower on first year seedling. (3) Never post a picture of flower with even minor damage. (4) These are you own stupid rules so you can break the rules.

This is the picture of an actual ball dahlia seedling. Miniature balls have been our specialty for years. Finally a ball sized seedling. Breeding ball dahlias is not very easy, especially when you do not grow hardly any ball sized dahlias.

MissyWeitzel

I'll break Ted's rules and post a first flower of a first year seedling. 😁
I reread the ADS guide for collarette form because I couldn't remember what the preferred petaloid length is and it is one-half to two thirds the length of the outer petals. So I will just watch and see how the gaps and over lapping works out and if the petal splits go away on future blooms.

mocullen35

Good evening everyone!

Is there a name for this petal shape? Scalloped? It's a wide petal with two notches, kind of like a duck's foot.

Teddahlia

Close up of a white flower that has purple stripes on the reverse of the floret that can be seen on the front of the floret. The florets are translucent enough for the purple pigment to show. Weird. Not all flowers and I bet the purple pigment "bleeds" and is not noticeable on most ripe flowers.

Bessie

Teddahlia I've observed a similar patterning on at least one seedling this year.
This is the underside of a mature bloom of 24312.

DarcyD

First year seedling. Does the world really need another orange?!? However I can’t pull it…I like it’s shape and it’s nice in bouquets. Ombré orange cutie:

MissyWeitzel

First bloom first year Ferncliff Dolly seedling. I didn't measure it but it's very large, like it's seed parent. Dahlia shimmer on the front and the back, which is a creamy white.

Teddahlia

Many times the reason there are so many of a color is that people love that color and cannot get enough of them. Or many of them are that color but are not very good but that is all there is so they keep growing them. In other words, your orange one may be better than the others and be very successful. However, we have found that first year seedlings are overrated by us and the second year is the year you may see it's faults or rarely see how wonderful it is.

Teddahlia

Second year seedling. Picture is just as it appeared on the cell phone. Sometimes the picture is very accurate

Juliarugula

Teddahlia loooove it!

Teddahlia

For some reason, people like to see pictures of seedlings that are not good enough. I love the color of this wannabee waterlily with an open center.

Bessie

Teddahlia as long as that open center doesn't make copious quantities of pollen, it would make a nice flower for arrangements is a vase. I've noted that some open centers make almost no pollen, while others, that are not desirable, will be dropping pollen after a few days.

Juliarugula

Teddahlia I really like both the color and the pattern of the variegation.

Teddahlia

We tend to breed for form more than color and this one does have pretty color. The big decision is whether or not the form can be improved and keep the color. Much easier said than done. We have one super nice variegated second year seedling already that has excellent form and variegation and if we breed it to something with good form also we should have some very good seedlings. But would they be this color?

Teddahlia

2024 picture of the seedling Dick Parshall selected from our garden last year.

drewtheflorist

First seedling out of Mary Margaret Row

Teddahlia

2024 seedling in the garden. First bloom. Good time of the year and we enjoy seeing the seedlings bloom.

BackyardBouquets_17

First yr seedling. The center is more “monster mouth “ than round but I still like it. Crazy productive and strong stems.

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