2025 Seedlings

Bessie · 2025-04-01T16:33:09+00:00

This year, 2025, has been challenging to get healthy Dahlia seedlings! Still trying to figure out the many ways I've gone wrong. I dumped about 30-40 seedlin...

DarcyD

Juliarugula I love this one, Julia!! 🥰

DarcyD

Finally starting to get the first seedlings blooming. Nothing I’m in love with yet but a few I’m watching. And, of course quite a few culls.

Bessie

DarcyD thank you for posting! I like your seedlings. I've been craving seeing other growers flowers.

Teddahlia

First flower. The pollen center is quite disappointing.

Bessie

Teddahlia pretty color!

Justafewdahlias

Mary Jo seedling. Vivid neon pink color I find interesting. First bloom of this seedling

Justafewdahlias

Since Bessie said she wanted to see others seedlings:

I was dead heading dahlias last night and decided to snap a photo before composting these

(Ivanetti first bloom is in the photo and that is not a seedling)

First few blooms of these so still watching before deciding what to do with them….having lots of fun seeing the results even when it’s a dud!

Bessie

Justafewdahlias the cupping of those blooms is amazing.

SteveM

Justafewdahlias ~~Do those cup that much in daylight?~~ Those are very interesting and exotic. The bottom, irregular one, and the left, purple one are my two favorites.

Edit: cross posted...

Justafewdahlias

Bessie This was right before the sun went down; so the cupping is like this in the daytime, if only!

Justafewdahlias

Bessie This was right before the sun went down. So the cupping is not like this in the daytime, if only!

Justafewdahlias

SteveM

Thanks! I like the excessive cupped WL look, so that’s one thing I am looking for. I
need to take more photos or spend more time by the dahlias in the daytime. I remember actually thinking to myself “I don’t know what half of these look like in the daytime.” I do most of my yard work or gardening in the evening for a couple hours before it gets dark. I have some photos of the daytime blooms, so not nearly as much as the evening.

Teddahlia

Previous picture with poor center may or may not be same seedling. I will crawl on the ground tomorrow and figure it out.

DarcyD

Teddahlia Sounds like a good mission! I think I’ve accidentally saved the wrong one before from stems that were too close.

Teddahlia

"Previous picture with poor center may or may not be same seedling." I took out the dogs early in the morning, and looked for the plant tag of the second flower. The pictures are of different seedlings. I am still hoping that the first one will get better centers but experience says that that will probably not happen.

Bessie

This second year seedling, 24522, had a 4" flower that was hard green for days as it matured. The color is a bit more purple than the photo. Seed parent is Hollyhill Regal(sold to me as that).

SteveM

Bessie Rich, pure purple (high % of lavender and low % of red). Looks like a winner!

Bessie

SteveM thanks for the evaluation, as to me it looks like a really beautiful, full flower. I'm just not sure if the green center when it's immature would make it less desirable. The plant itself does not appear to be self branching, like seedling 24312, however a lot of dahlias must be pinched when young. I need to do a vase test to see how it responds. The summer is blowing past me really fast!

SteveM

Bessie I'm just not sure if the green center when it's immature would make it less desirable.

I don't see any sign of green centers in your seedling. Almost all dahlias have green centers when immature and they are only a problem when the centers remain green when the bloom is at peak maturity. My first KA's Mocha Jo have green centers when mature (bloom on left is immature, bloom on right is past maturity).

calico20hill

[unknown] It is so much fun delighting other people with new flowers! It is one of the things I miss since I moved and no longer sell cut flowers or have a customer base. Here is the one that is delighting me right now...

It is 8" in diameter and this is day 6. It is a seedling from my "blue" dahlia, Salish Blue Mountains...I don't know where it picked up the 8" size but I love the twisting ruffly petals and the center that is still strong after 6 days!

Bessie

calico20hill I love twisting petals in dahlias. That flower is beautiful.

calico20hill

Bessie Thanks for confirming my opinion!

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