If the plants went in early enough, they usually form tubers by now. You can save seed, but they will not always come true to original plant. Make sure the seed is dry before you take it off the plant.
If you’ve kept dahlias watered and fed over the summer they should have produced tubers even if they aren’t large ones. The bigger the tuber the more successfully it will store over winter.
Do you mean collecting seed from your own plants? I don’t see why you can’t but they won’t be the same as the parent plant. Seeds are inexpensive to buy and are easy to grow.
Thanks for your reply the seeds where taken from one of this years plant nice and big ones im letting them dry in the green house and will plant them in pots feb 2022
Sorry for hi-jacking but I've got this delicate little fella - seed sown 23rd April, seedling planted 16th May, appeared to do nothing for 4 months and then started to grow in Sept and produced a flower this week. Likely to have a tuber worthy of storing for the winter? Chances of survival if I leave it where it is?
I'd lift and store that @Biglad. I think your climate might be a bit on the damp side for it. It may not have much of a tuber though, but it would stand a better chance if it was inside somewhere and kept just ticking over for winter.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not sure @Biglad. I don't grow them now, and only had ones with sizeable tubers. People have differing views on the various overwintering methods. Some go for just keeping in dry-ish compost, and some opt for newspaper or similar. With small ones like that, it might be different, purely because of the size
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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It may not have much of a tuber though, but it would stand a better chance if it was inside somewhere and kept just ticking over for winter.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Wrapped in newspaper in a cold but dry shed?
People have differing views on the various overwintering methods. Some go for just keeping in dry-ish compost, and some opt for newspaper or similar.
With small ones like that, it might be different, purely because of the size
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...