2023 Tuber Trades

blown_dry · 2023-02-23T01:10:10+00:00

Someone expressed an interest in this and I know this was a thing back on the Cubits forum. Please feel free to discuss and/or eventually share lists. If peo...

Teddahlia

How could Colorado Classic make so many nice tubers and your seedling of it have issues with tubers? Perhaps a backcross to it to get those nicet tubers..

calico20hill

Twilight girl actually makes pretty good tubers but they are rather slow growing. It doesn't make loads of them but maybe 4 or 5? It just takes them a very long time to do it. She seems to take longer to grow her beautiful plant and get started on tuber making. I had not throught about this in regards to her parentage. And of course I don't really know who her parents were. Remember, she was from my first effort at saving seeds and planting them...the one you talked me into when I thought I did not have time to mess with that....and I am eternally grateful that you did! I don't even know for sure which plants I had collected seeds from because the point was just to do it and get started. To try it out and see if I got anything interesting. And here we are all those years later and l5 or 6 from that patch of seedlings! are still being grown and sold!

Teddahlia

When it comes to seeds, Margaret refused to plant some seeds we collected from something nice because we forgot to label it. Not knowing the parent of a nice seedling and you want to breed another one and you can only guess the parent is very frustrating. Or you want to cross your nice one and what would be compatible? Too much for her to handle.

calico20hill

I do label the seed parent now but so far have used only bee crossed ones. And I carefully label them, like "pocket seeds", (those found in a jeans pocket before throwing it in the laundry). You literally never know what you will find in those seeds!

KitCMC

If anybody has an extra Barbara B, I’d love to trade or purchase.

Teddahlia

In the naming of dahlias, the ultimate compliment is naming a variety after your spouse. Barbara B. is Paul Bloomquist's attempt to retain marital bliss. There is no Hollyhill Margaret or Hollyhill Theodore. Hollyhill Margarita was Margaret's choice of a name for her favorite flower that year.

KitCMC

This reminds me of Roger Paraon’s ‘Alison Louise’ and David Austin’s ‘Pat Austin’ - not to mention there are a number of dahlias with the name Ted 😉

Will there ever be a Hollyhill Margaret or Hollyhill Theodore?

Teddahlia

There has never been a dahlia as pretty as Margaret or as ugly as me. 😘 It may happen and I do not select names and only give suggestions to the dahlia name boss, Margaret. She would not name one "dingleberry" and considers many or most of my suggestions as frivolous.

AndreaB

Teddahlia LOL. “Dingleberry” makes the child in me chuckle. It’s a funny word and I seem to recall my grandparents using it. 😆

WanderingDahlias

calico20hill

Teddahlia I’m so glad you told this story. Rosie threw in an Uncle Ted as my freebie. Looking forward to growing it.

Bessie

@calico20hill

HH Wedding Day was so tall and beautiful in my garden, I should plant it dead center and run festive ribbons out to the 4 corners from it!!. It is one of the ones left to be dug and I sure hope it made tubers!

I'd happily buy or trade with you... a tuber or unrooted cuttings of Hollyhill Wedding Day.

calico20hill

Bessie When I am all done with tuber storage I can see what I enfdup with. I do very limited trading by mail.

Bessie

Anyone interested in tuber(s)of Solo(from Swan Island Dahlias)? I'd keep it around for a cutting garden plant, however I'm into hybridizing for cut flowers, and it's a bit of a bobble head, which is not a feature I want in the gene pool.
Send me a direct message if interested.

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