My Dahlias 2018

[Gemma]

I'd love some of those @alp

This is my largest Dahlia so far!

 

[johnny canoe]

 

[Gemma]

@johnny canoe your Dahlias are beautiful and the foliage look so healthy, do you spray anything on them, or are you one of the lucky ones that never get molds or mites?

 

[johnny canoe]

Hello Gemma and thanks. I usually get some powdery mildew showing up on the leaves this time of year. So far no sign of it but I did have to spray my birdhouse gourd leaves yesterday in my GH. I'm just using a baking soda spray and will use that when or if it appears on the Dahlia leaves. I'm trying to keep good airflow around the plants but they are starting to get very bushy. But another month and a half or less and the frosts will be here.

 

[Gemma]

@johnny canoe You are doing a great job! I'm going to try the baking soda spray this weekend, we have at least another 2 1/2 to 3 months of blooming left!

 

[alp]

Hello Gemma and thanks. I usually get some powdery mildew showing up on the leaves this time of year. So far no sign of it but I did have to spray my birdhouse gourd leaves yesterday in my GH. I'm just using a baking soda spray and will use that when or if it appears on the Dahlia leaves. I'm trying to keep good airflow around the plants but they are starting to get very bushy. But another month and a half or less and the frosts will be here.

Have you got the formula for the baking soda spray please? Would love to use it as I do have some baking soda staring at me!

Johnny, I have nothing but leaves! I did water with tomorite to puff up the potash content!

 

[johnny canoe]

Hello alp, it's one tsp of baking soda to 500ml of water.
Is the Dahlia that is all leave a young one or divided one? Sometimes that happens, it will bloom next year.

 

[alp]

Hello alp, it's one tsp of baking soda to 500ml of water.
Is the Dahlia that is all leave a young one or divided one? Sometimes that happens, it will bloom next year.

I will try that. Apparently, baking soda is good for a lot of things.

One is a mambo which flowered last year. The other ones I don't really know. I need to have a look to see if there are buds. Just a whole clump of leaves from several plants. Could be the drought or they could be late flowers. But Mambo is supposed to be early flowering. Everything which can go wrong goes wrong with me this year.

Thanks for the formula.

 

[alp]

Some old and some new

Old first

Mambo

Polka

Crazy Love. Love the split Deer antler split petals

Could be Boogie Woogie

A dinner plate Kelvin Floodlight Dinner Plate Dahlia probably

 

[johnny canoe]

You have a wonderful selection of Dahlias alp.

 

[alp]

Thank you, John!

I love them all, but the Crazy love seems to be dotted one here, one there! My beloved Frosted tip is nowhere to be found. Yours have put on such a good show. You know it's easy to take cuttings. You would be very good at that. Even I could do it. At the mo, most are like green vegs! Only I can't eat them! Unlike yours! So many full blooms and all clustered together.

 

[Gemma]

I've been spraying my Dahlias every weekend using first the baking soda mix and lately the milk and water, I can see that both slow down the mold but unfortunately it is still there. Perhaps they are both more of a preventive measure, rather than a cure?

 

[alp]

Some could be repeats, but they are new flowers

Deer Antler cacti Dahlia - you can see the split end of the petals

Polka - another short dahlia with very heavy-duty flower!

This Kelvin Floodlight is only about a foot tall and yet the flowers are about 8 inches - The two of them were so heavy that they collapsed onto the floor! Remind me of an ill-breed dog!

Picasso

This could be Carribean Fantasy

Share yours please!

 

[Logan]

Lovely dahlias Alp, Gemma and Johnny. I don't have any, for me they take up too much room to store. But nice to see them.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Being soooooo hopeless at overwintering , I have new ones each year