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Dhalia bulbs

plumbplumb Posts: 67
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Kept some dahlia bulbs from last year, some have come up,but two have not,the tuba has enlarged, but nothing coming up, any reasons for this, could it have been planted to late etc.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 25,260
    Was there a stalk on it? If there wasn't, you won't get a plant
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • plumbplumb Posts: 67
    No just the bulb, it enlarged, but did not grow anything


  • LynLyn Posts: 21,978
    You need a bit of stalk on the tuber or it won’t grow. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • plumbplumb Posts: 67
    edited July 2019
     These Dhalia tubers,only got bigger,with some root growth but no stalk, is it worth keeping them for next year or does it mean they are blind, they were in pots. Lyn did you mean it should have a stalk on it already when planted.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 8,879
    The tubers (not bulbs) need to have an "eye" to grow a shoot from (usually they're near the previous year's old stalks). Sections of tuber with no eyes won't grow any shoots.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,056
    No stalk = no dahlia. The tubers are just nutrient storage receptacles, they will swell in the ground but there is nowhere (no stalk with embryonic bud lurking) for it to put this energy so I think that’s right, they will be blind and deaf to your ministrations... I don’t think they can spontaneously grow a stalk??
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • plumbplumb Posts: 67
    Jenny, thank you, shame, must have done something wrong over winter,they were a nice one too, never mind, go again.


  • plumbplumb Posts: 67
    Yeah your right Nollie,thanks for that, Ministrations,haha I like that. will try and do better next year lol

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,056
    And I will try and buy decent tubers next year instead of relying on supermarket stock! Grew on a lovely orange one called Colour Spectacle, its been really slow to flower, ways behind all the others. Its finally flowered and its not that one at all - its dusky pink!  :#
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • plumbplumb Posts: 67
    NO, no supermarket stock
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