Justafewdahlias whew! Much better thanks! 
General Dahlia Chat - 2025
Justafewdahlias Much better. 
Juliarugula my thoughts exactly.
Justafewdahlias I agree, but since most were taken at Swan Island. It would have been nice for SI to show them some great blooms.
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I may or may not have started cuttings a bit too early. 
#czarny
When was this started? I would guess sometime in the fall? I was considering bringing some of my tubers inside to start taking cuttings from, but then worried if it was too early. Most people don’t plant their tubers outside till Mother’s Day in my zone 8b/9a. But now after seeing this I feel like I’m running behind!
Thank you so much! Works like a charm.
A tip for faster set up. If u recall that excel file from Etsy I had posted about when this topic came up. If you delete some of the tables ( you need to get it down to a smaller size so it’s within the size limit to import ) save it as an xls instead of an xlsm ( I had to go into my laptop files and change it manually in there after I saved a copy from excel to my laptop files) you can then upload it from excel to airtable and then turn around and in smart suite instead of starting from scratch create with import and upload it from airtable to smart suite. The reason I had to go the roundabout way is because it would only allow importing from airtable and not excel.
Going this route it is 75 percent done with ( for me) a dahlia inventory, planting info, sales,trade list, cuttings, and seedlings table with only a little tweaking needed vs starting from the ground up.
I hope to anyone going this route my instructions make sense. If not feel free to contact me. For instructions on how to change a file from xlsm to xls google was helpful 
Justafewdahlias This was a cutting of a cutting I took a couple of months ago. It's just a monster. I swore I wouldn't overwinter again, but here I am. I don't know how many you grow, but I found out last year that I could have waited a little longer for some tubers. The problem is that they don't all wake up the same, so I had some that took weeks to send a shoot. For me, it's all dictated by how much space and energy I have. Left to my own devices I would fill an entire house by February.
I start our tubers for cuttings in late February.
I will try to hold off until the 2nd tuber check next month. I am just starting the first one. If I see something I need to start in order to save I could start it..otherwise, no need. The only thing I have started is a jug of Delphinium seed planted and set outside to freeze and thaw a few times to wake them up. I am not sure that will work if we don't get a few freezes! I think we have only had about 3 frosty nights last month. "Willie Makeit", my seedling dahlia that popped up in the porch boxes in late fall, has been growing in the greenhouse but the leaves are starting to mildrew so I guess its time to cut the stem off and let it dry up. I don't want mildew running wild in there! Hopefully it will survive as a pot root between now and March or April.
magucci I don’t grow very many. I had about 20 plants last season and ordered about 15 more for this season. I just wanted to increase a few of my plants so I could have more flowers available for cutting or maybe even try some dahlia showing. Yeah the timing of how long for them to wake up/sprout I realized isn’t at all universal! Some had eyes but grew nothing for weeks. Maybe I will wait another month, it’s a fine line from “wish I woulda started sooner” to “oh no this needs to be outside asap” 
! Are you overwintering these cuttings in a greenhouse or some other setup?
calico20hill I love “winter sowing” I started borderline too late last year so I actually just put some jugs together tonight. Sweet alyssum, Icelandic poppies, delphinium, sweet peas, & snapdragons. The hardest part is finding the milk jugs, it seems like no one buys milk by the gallon anymore. And this has been the most bizzare mild December. I had a branching sunflower still blooming around December 10th!
I love winter sowing. It’s provided me 85% of my perennials. I lost my milk jug source this year sadly. They got a water system so don’t use water jugs anymore. It was suggested to me to get them from Starbucks. Apparently some of them will save them for you if you’re good about going back to pick them up. I’m trying today.
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"...how long for them to wake up/sprout I realized isn’t at all universal!"
First sprout time is a genetic trait. Once you know what varieties are slow starters, you plan on doing the old trick of placing some tubers into a plastic bag of damp potting soil and placing the bag in an area of your house where it is always a bit warm. My tiny half bath has a heat vent and it is nearly 80 in there at all times. They will sprout in less than a week and and then put them into your cutting room.
Kenora Clyde is a giant dahlia and is the slowest one to wake up. Generally giants and large dahlias are slower to sprout . By the way, it is not just that they are slower to sprout, the second sprout is much slower to appear also. The time between cuttings may be twice as long or longer. Another difficult issue with giants is the tendency to have hollow sprouts. The hollow ones are very difficult to root.
Jessica is an all time favorite that we have not grown in 20 years or more. Tubers are long and small and break necks and also rot. Flowers are amazing.
When I learned how to put a date on top of my homework paper in the second grade in 1954, I never imagined that I would be writing 2025 on documents.
So, what do we have to write about on dahlias in 2025? I am still dividing clumps. 
Justafewdahlias I use distilled water jugs. If you know anyone who uses a CPAP for sleep, the machines take distilled water. We have 3 of us on CPAPS so we end up with lots of jugs over a year! It is nice to get some extra use out of them!
I’m regretting overwintering cuttings, yet stubbornly refusing to quit.