General Dahlia Chat - 2025

Juliarugula · 2025-01-01T13:30:33+00:00

Justafewdahlias whew! Much better thanks! 😅

blown_dry

[unknown] That's some serious water. 🙁

NCDahlia

Raining again. Lol I checked the rain gauges already another 4 inches. And just got this alert lol. Dahlias might be toast this year. Will update whenever it dries out!

Teddahlia

Daydream grown as pot tuber. Amazing how it looks the same at half the size.

calico20hill

Teddahlia I may collapse with joy at the above picture...hydrangeas and dahlias that match so beautifully!

MA_Dahlias

Hi All! Here in CT we have had SO much rain this spring and top that off with clay soil, my poor plants have been wet. Many of them seem to have yellowing on the edges of their leaves - is it possible this is from all the rain? I have been feeding them with a something like an agrothrive fertilizer and gave them all a doze of Osmocote when they were planted, but they just aren't looking super happy! Any ideas!?

Bessie

MA_Dahlias perhaps this is "salt burn"? The concentration of "salts" from fertilizer combined with shallow watering that does not allow excess ions to move out of the soil can cause this. Since you have had lots of rain, perhaps there was an excess of fertilizer applied or that the Osmocote released too quickly with all the moisture?

Teddahlia

In the PNW more than an inch of rain one day in July, August, or September would be an unexpected flood. In fact, an inch of rain during the entire month of July would be a very wet July. So, I have no clue how to mitigate your flooded dahlias.
Seedling that we need to either sell or enter in trial gardens. Yes, it grows 7 feet tall.

Teddahlia

Small plants, small amount of fertilizer. The amount in the hole is just a starter dose and when they get nearly a foot tall they get another dose of fertilizer. Another mistake people make is adding the compost in the spring. It holds water. Compost is best added months before planting as it is not fully digested and finishes after you add it to the soil. And over the, years, I have seen many, many posts that when they switched to raised beds that drain well , their problems with torrential rains were solved or substantially better.

Juliarugula

[unknown] dahlias.
Seedling that we need to either sell or enter in trial gardens. Yes, it grows 7 feet tall.

Whoa! That is one dramatic waterlily! Is this photo pretty true to color?

Teddahlia

Here is picture as it came out of my cell phone. I cropped it and removed my hand from the bottom of the picture. Yes, it does look exactly like this when conditions are good. As with all dahlias , things change in different weather.

blown_dry

Teddahlia What an amazing, velvety color!

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