Good to know! I had a GORGEOUS dahlia that I had to leave when I moved over 3000 miles away. I wish I knew this 7 months ago! I could have brought a little baby with me.
I have to admit I’ve never been a dahlia fan, even though when I was little a neighbor grew prize winning ones. I have a small garden and thought I can’t grow something that doesn’t do a pollinating job too. And lo and behold, after watching today I looked up and found…open-centered dahlias and they do a great job of feeding the pollinators! I guess I didn’t even know these open center types were even dahlias at all! Now I read they are bee and butterfly magnets. Now I must have some! Thank you for sending me in an entirely new garden direction!!!
Just when I thought I knew all there is to know about growing dahlias, here comes your video with more valuable tips. I had no idea that you can propagate them by taking cuttings of the young stems. For the lack of indoor space, I keep the tubers in the garage, inside a paper bag filled with peat moss until middle of May, after the last frost. I plant them directly into the ground. I've been planting them deep enough to cover the entire tuber, including the eyes. They always managed to push through the soil within a week once I started watering them.
Great varieties!! Thanks for your instructional video. ❤❤ I love dahlias and always wanted to plant them. I am super excited to successfully grow my own.
Loving this dahlia series. So clearly explained. Also enjoyed hearing your personal background to getting started with dahlias in the first video. Keep 'em coming please.
*Very cool. One piece of advice from experience, dont throw the dangling tubers away. Keep a pot for each variety and also plant them. Many will have an eye that will sprout. I leave mine in a tubby (plastic bucket for hefting weeds and earth) and spray with water. This rehydrates the tuber and some may sprout. It took us from 8 dahlias year 1 to 35 in year 2.*
Wow, so happy you put out this vlog. I planted Dahlias last year but obviously did not know what I was doing. Very poor growth! Great info for beginners 🤙
@Ryan Smith LOL! I haven't ever had that problem yet! I'm in Pittsburgh, if you don't remove the tubers, they die in the winter. However, I do have that problem with day lillies that were planted here by the previous owner. They want to take over no matter how many tubers I dig out! It makes me crazy!
THANK YOU for this video. I live in zone 7a and dug up some Dalia bulbs to see if I could bring them back. And they ARE!!! Thanks to this info/video. I'm going to propagate them now! I also shared with family who loves dahlias. I started following you for veggies but so glad to see this! BTW, Secret Garden is one of my faves too
Brian, I’m curious as to when you are building a greenhouse ? 😂 after watching this I definitely think you might need one 😊 I think dahlias are one of my favorites flowers.
Thank you so much for sharing all the information and tips. My Mom just started growing them last year and loved them but then had troubles later plus knew nothing about propergateing them. Of course, I've shared your videos with her.😊
I sure look forward to watching your dahlias grow this year! You’ve inspired me to give them a try in a new full sun garden I’m creating. I will be planting them in front of vining tomatoes, I think they will be good camouflage for the vining tomatoes and attract the neighbors honey bees.
Thank you for posting this video now! I really need that information on planting Dahlias. I’ve read that Dahlias can be planted after the last frost date, which is by March in San Diego (I suspect I live a little south and west of you). However, we had a frost warning just last week and nighttime temperatures are predicted to be bouncing around anywhere from 42°-48° over the next 2 weeks. We also have had a lot of rain lately, so I was too worried about planting the tubers and having them rot or freeze. After watching your video, I have decided to pot up the 9 tubers I have so I can at least get them started. Thanks for that idea!
I have cosco daliahs from last year. I hope they will grow this year. I lost them when putting away my seed starting supplies last year and found them this year . Here's to hoping it's successful
Good Heavens! I'm like a kid in a candy shop watching all these videos! LOL. SO much fun and Joy te be had in gardening ... and I'm only starting my second year 👏🎉🎊😂- THX again for ALL the great stuff👍
The clumps can give you extra plants if you divide them into individual tubers with sprouts. I always wait til late winter, early spring to divide my clumps when I can see eyes/sprouts.
Planted my Bora Bora's today following the package directions, came back in for a break and watched a couple of your Dahlia vids. Went back out, snipped off the dangly bits and spindly root looking things, and brought them about 2" back towards the surface because they had sprouted a bit and I didn't want to bury that like I'd thought they needed to be. Unfortunately, in the package, the sprouts had spun around about 180* from the eye, so I had to put them eye-down, but I figure at the point they sprouted, that sprout was the important part. at least one of them I'm pretty sure has a second sprout popping up, so I'll wait a couple weeks and see. I'm *notorious* for killing things - largely for watering too little - so while these tubers are taking root, I'm good. After that I'll have to make sure I keep them watered with everything else. Especially here in AZ :) I don't have a drip irrigation system, what's your opinion on the drip sets that look like I.V. bags? Any good? Decent for some plants, not so good for others?
I love & watch all your videos even the chicken videos & I never plan on having chickens 😂😂🤦♀️ but your teaching skills are just superb! I've never really been into flowers only vegetables but I might try these. Thanks for making a new video to add to my night sleep playlist despite your rainfall. By the way we've had basically no rain here in Florida, it's super dry.
I appreciate the inside videos! California has been super wet this season so I'm also doing some seedling starts on my hardwood floor for now lol ( probably as well as many others) , thanks as always!
My dahlias are the clump kind from home depot and some of them have the super loose tubers hanging off and I was so sad because I thought they were dead. Now I'm not sure and I'm going to try to sprout them. Thanks Brian!
Thank you Soo much for sharing this! I never knew you could propagate dahlias from cuttings😍 I tried to separate some of my tubers last year so I’d have more plants, but not many survived 🥺. I’ll definitely be trying your way this year and I look forward to seeing more videos😊
Love my Dahlias! Would you plant them the same in a bed? Directions have said in the past, bury 4". Also, The first and second year, they all came up great after our winter. Last year, one. I didnt dig them up. Should I dig them up every year? I did that last year and that's when none except the one came up. I got the info on how to store them and followed those instructions to the T. My friend grows (farms about 1/2 an acre) in Zone 6 so she needed to do so. I dont know why they didnt come up. I did speak to an expert at a flower show and said to plant them on Mother's Day.
You got me interested to grow dahlias a couple weeks ago. They look so pretty. All those loose tubers you cut off.. can you plant them separately as well?
Loving the flowers help and advice thank you, my tulips have come back I thought I'd killed them but they look even better (still in the wrong place tho) fab vlog Brian 🥰
Wow it worked!!! I'm SO pumped over this LOL!! Hey may I ask how deep do I plant the dahlia bulbs? When you plant just the bulbs direct in the ground they're fairly deep. Now you're doing it when they're already sprouted. Do you plant the bulbs just under the surface or so that a small amount of the green is above the ground? Thx for an answer AND, once again, this video👍👏
Hello, Dahlia 😁. Also, are worm castings good for flower & veg soil both? Anyone doing vermiculture? Just bought 20 lb. castings & won 100 "Red European Nightcrawlers". Any advice, on total newbie 🐛
How ironic. I just bought some Dahlias from Aldis (1st example). Don't know a thing about them. Just walked in from planting them and now I will learn something about them! (I also planted some Canas)
Hi Brian, thank you for peaking my interest in Dahlias. I enjoy all of your videos! I happened across an additional technique for multiplying cuttings & wanted your take on viability plus thought it may help you and community. Let me know if you would be interested in taking a look. I will send link.
Argh I don't have enough room under my grow lights for cuttings! I'm gonna go looking for tubers this weekend and see if I can figure out a way to at least get one planted to try cuttings out cause it looks so easy!
Great job, one of my favorite things to do is root dahlias. I also love hand-pollinating my flowers to create seeds to breed my own Dahlia varieties. @UrbanDahlias
I wish I saw this a couple years ago. I wasted a whole Costco bag. I got beautiful dinner plate dahlias that first year. Dug them up for winter and the next spring planted them. Got only two to produce. I over watered and a squirrel ate the rest. I didn’t know about cutting etc. I will try again.
I live in Michigan (Zone 5A) can I overwinter my potted dahlias right in their pots in my garage as long as I don’t water the soil during their storage months ?
This is the best video on potting up and taking dahlia cuttings that I've seen. Now I know what I've been doing wrong. Edited to ask, can the cuttings be taken all season long or just at the beginning before planting them outside? Thanks for this video.
Are egg cartons deep enough to get cuttings started? If I can get more use out of these $10 eggs, I'll be thrilled. And if not for the dahlias, would you please suggest other flower/veg seed/bulb options. (I'm in L.A. for zone reference.) Thanks!
I have yet to watch this video due to lack of time right now. However, every time I see the thumbnail, I think you have 2 mugs of coffee in your hands ;)
Hi friend! I have a question for you. Do you know what plant is “ora pros nobis”, botanical name is: pereskia aculeata? I live in zone 8b and I would love to have this plant because it has tremendously benefits. I wait to you to let talk about this plant. Thank you!
Brian: Great info. Do you plant the dangling tube like pieces that you cut off the main tuber? Also, do you have to dig them up at the end of the warm season, or will they come back next year if I leave the tubers in the ground? Thx!
No... I learned in zone 8 from an elderly gentleman that ruled for decades with Best in Show & tons of 1st place ribbons at fair Every year & he didn't do ANY of the stuff he just showed. He dug & divided tubers by end of November after the first frost. Stored tubers in a plastic bag 6" underground in their growing location by their stake that had their name on it. Then in late March - early April he dug them up, planted the best 2-3 tubers horizontally, bud nodes up, 4" underground with a shovel of compost in the hole 1st. PERIOD. Then went on to grow the most majestic, prize winning dahlias You ever saw!!! None of the stuff this man just did. I am curious why he is doing all that unnecessary stuff in a warm climate... I get it with taking cuttings which Mr Noteboom never did. Normally You get several plants to give away from every tuber every yr so not sure why cuttings are necessary?? But obviously an option which is ok to know about... I'm kinda confused about this program.
If the temperature is right the foilage will emerge through the soil, just can't put them outside before the soil warms. I learned the hard way with my Caladium, put them out too early and that was it for them
Good to know! I had a GORGEOUS dahlia that I had to leave when I moved over 3000 miles away. I wish I knew this 7 months ago! I could have brought a little baby with me.
I have to admit I’ve never been a dahlia fan, even though when I was little a neighbor grew prize winning ones. I have a small garden and thought I can’t grow something that doesn’t do a pollinating job too. And lo and behold, after watching today I looked up and found…open-centered dahlias and they do a great job of feeding the pollinators! I guess I didn’t even know these open center types were even dahlias at all! Now I read they are bee and butterfly magnets. Now I must have some! Thank you for sending me in an entirely new garden direction!!!
Just when I thought I knew all there is to know about growing dahlias, here comes your video with more valuable tips. I had no idea that you can propagate them by taking cuttings of the young stems. For the lack of indoor space, I keep the tubers in the garage, inside a paper bag filled with peat moss until middle of May, after the last frost. I plant them directly into the ground. I've been planting them deep enough to cover the entire tuber, including the eyes. They always managed to push through the soil within a week once I started watering them.
Great varieties!! Thanks for your instructional video. ❤❤ I love dahlias and always wanted to plant them. I am super excited to successfully grow my own.
I bought some dahlias at the garden center about a month ago I hope to get them planted about the end of april
Dahlias are gorgeous. Thanks for this!
Thank you! I learn the most from you. Appreciate your knowledge.
Loving this dahlia series. So clearly explained. Also enjoyed hearing your personal background to getting started with dahlias in the first video. Keep 'em coming please.
So nice of you
I've seeded Dahlias for the first time this year! Thanks Brian!
Great information. I didn't know you can start new plants from cuttings. I hope in the fall you show how to store the tubers for winter storage.
I will
I just cover mine with hay and they come back year after year
@@bashaberl1428 I'm in southern Canada and I don't believe they will take a winter freeze.
@@bashaberl1428 what zone are you in?
Absolutely love Dhalias!! So many great tips, I just started growing them last year.
Love ❤ Flower 🌺 Friday’s!! Never tried growing dahlias but falling in love with with their beautiful colors and varieties! Thank you 🙏
Perfect! I was needing this!
This video was very informative. Well done dahlia cutting 101!!
*Very cool. One piece of advice from experience, dont throw the dangling tubers away. Keep a pot for each variety and also plant them. Many will have an eye that will sprout. I leave mine in a tubby (plastic bucket for hefting weeds and earth) and spray with water. This rehydrates the tuber and some may sprout. It took us from 8 dahlias year 1 to 35 in year 2.*
Wow, so happy you put out this vlog. I planted Dahlias last year but obviously did not know what I was doing. Very poor growth! Great info for beginners 🤙
Perfect timing! I just got my tubers and instead of waiting to pop in the ground, I'm going to try this! Thank you! Can never have too many Dahlias!😊
You say that but they tend to go out control
@Ryan Smith LOL! I haven't ever had that problem yet! I'm in Pittsburgh, if you don't remove the tubers, they die in the winter. However, I do have that problem with day lillies that were planted here by the previous owner. They want to take over no matter how many tubers I dig out! It makes me crazy!
THANK YOU for this video. I live in zone 7a and dug up some Dalia bulbs to see if I could bring them back. And they ARE!!! Thanks to this info/video. I'm going to propagate them now! I also shared with family who loves dahlias. I started following you for veggies but so glad to see this! BTW, Secret Garden is one of my faves too
Brian, I’m curious as to when you are building a greenhouse ? 😂 after watching this I definitely think you might need one 😊 I think dahlias are one of my favorites flowers.
Thank you for making this video!
Informative video, particularly the loose tubers. Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing all the information and tips. My Mom just started growing them last year and loved them but then had troubles later plus knew nothing about propergateing them. Of course, I've shared your videos with her.😊
Looking forward to planting the tubers I saved last fall! 🙂
Thanks for the tip about not over-watering.
I sure look forward to watching your dahlias grow this year! You’ve inspired me to give them a try in a new full sun garden I’m creating. I will be planting them in front of vining tomatoes, I think they will be good camouflage for the vining tomatoes and attract the neighbors honey bees.
Thank you for posting this video now! I really need that information on planting Dahlias. I’ve read that Dahlias can be planted after the last frost date, which is by March in San Diego (I suspect I live a little south and west of you). However, we had a frost warning just last week and nighttime temperatures are predicted to be bouncing around anywhere from 42°-48° over the next 2 weeks. We also have had a lot of rain lately, so I was too worried about planting the tubers and having them rot or freeze.
After watching your video, I have decided to pot up the 9 tubers I have so I can at least get them started. Thanks for that idea!
I have cosco daliahs from last year. I hope they will grow this year. I lost them when putting away my seed starting supplies last year and found them this year . Here's to hoping it's successful
Good Heavens! I'm like a kid in a candy shop watching all these videos! LOL. SO much fun and Joy te be had in gardening ... and I'm only starting my second year 👏🎉🎊😂- THX again for ALL the great stuff👍
You're welcome!
The clumps can give you extra plants if you divide them into individual tubers with sprouts. I always wait til late winter, early spring to divide my clumps when I can see eyes/sprouts.
WOW . What a great and informative video. Thanks so much.
ok, I am going to try. very good instructions. thank you so much
I didn't know you had flower Friday's !! I'm so excited! My veggies are slowly loosing out to flowers !
Great video Brian, thanks 🤗 have a blessed weekend
Planted my Bora Bora's today following the package directions, came back in for a break and watched a couple of your Dahlia vids. Went back out, snipped off the dangly bits and spindly root looking things, and brought them about 2" back towards the surface because they had sprouted a bit and I didn't want to bury that like I'd thought they needed to be. Unfortunately, in the package, the sprouts had spun around about 180* from the eye, so I had to put them eye-down, but I figure at the point they sprouted, that sprout was the important part. at least one of them I'm pretty sure has a second sprout popping up, so I'll wait a couple weeks and see. I'm *notorious* for killing things - largely for watering too little - so while these tubers are taking root, I'm good. After that I'll have to make sure I keep them watered with everything else. Especially here in AZ :)
I don't have a drip irrigation system, what's your opinion on the drip sets that look like I.V. bags? Any good? Decent for some plants, not so good for others?
I buried mine in dry soil in pots… after watching this I will dig them up and do like you did
I love & watch all your videos even the chicken videos & I never plan on having chickens 😂😂🤦♀️ but your teaching skills are just superb!
I've never really been into flowers only vegetables but I might try these. Thanks for making a new video to add to my night sleep playlist despite your rainfall. By the way we've had basically no rain here in Florida, it's super dry.
Thank you! Definitely give one a try. You'll be hooked 😉
I appreciate the inside videos! California has been super wet this season so I'm also doing some seedling starts on my hardwood floor for now lol ( probably as well as many others) , thanks as always!
My cat Minnie is fascinated with this video. Who knew she loved dahlias. LOL
My dahlias are the clump kind from home depot and some of them have the super loose tubers hanging off and I was so sad because I thought they were dead. Now I'm not sure and I'm going to try to sprout them. Thanks Brian!
Thank you Soo much for sharing this! I never knew you could propagate dahlias from cuttings😍 I tried to separate some of my tubers last year so I’d have more plants, but not many survived 🥺. I’ll definitely be trying your way this year and I look forward to seeing more videos😊
Excellent
Love my Dahlias! Would you plant them the same in a bed? Directions have said in the past, bury 4". Also, The first and second year, they all came up great after our winter. Last year, one. I didnt dig them up. Should I dig them up every year? I did that last year and that's when none except the one came up. I got the info on how to store them and followed those instructions to the T. My friend grows (farms about 1/2 an acre) in Zone 6 so she needed to do so. I dont know why they didnt come up. I did speak to an expert at a flower show and said to plant them on Mother's Day.
You got me interested to grow dahlias a couple weeks ago. They look so pretty. All those loose tubers you cut off.. can you plant them separately as well?
Other thing, the pieces you cut off, do you plant those?
I'm so glad for this video! Tysvm😊 I'm now educated so I can save $
Loving the flowers help and advice thank you, my tulips have come back I thought I'd killed them but they look even better (still in the wrong place tho) fab vlog Brian 🥰
Wow it worked!!! I'm SO pumped over this LOL!! Hey may I ask how deep do I plant the dahlia bulbs? When you plant just the bulbs direct in the ground they're fairly deep. Now you're doing it when they're already sprouted. Do you plant the bulbs just under the surface or so that a small amount of the green is above the ground? Thx for an answer AND, once again, this video👍👏
Hello, Dahlia 😁. Also, are worm castings good for flower & veg soil both? Anyone doing vermiculture? Just bought 20 lb. castings & won 100 "Red European Nightcrawlers". Any advice, on total newbie 🐛
How ironic. I just bought some Dahlias from Aldis (1st example). Don't know a thing about them. Just walked in from
planting them and now I will learn something about them! (I also planted some Canas)
Hi Brian, thank you for peaking my interest in Dahlias. I enjoy all of your videos! I happened across an additional technique for multiplying cuttings & wanted your take on viability plus thought it may help you and community. Let me know if you would be interested in taking a look. I will send link.
Definitely... send through the contact us page on our website Www.nextlevelgardening.tv
So you can safely ie the heat mat out in the dirt??
Thank you for this!
Argh I don't have enough room under my grow lights for cuttings! I'm gonna go looking for tubers this weekend and see if I can figure out a way to at least get one planted to try cuttings out cause it looks so easy!
It is easy
Great job, one of my favorite things to do is root dahlias. I also love hand-pollinating my flowers to create seeds to breed my own Dahlia varieties.
@UrbanDahlias
I wish I saw this a couple years ago. I wasted a whole Costco bag. I got beautiful dinner plate dahlias that first year. Dug them up for winter and the next spring planted them. Got only two to produce. I over watered and a squirrel ate the rest. I didn’t know about cutting etc. I will try again.
What type of soil for the new cuttings? Thank you for this great video!
Hey Brian great video!! I went an bought some tuber when should i start them my last freezing day is May 14 ?
Thanks for sharing
Hi my friend! I love Dahlias and their colors. Do you believe I can grow them in zone 8b? Thank you! I have learnt so much things with you ❤
What's the temperature for the heat mat? Is it the same indoors and out? (Thank you!)
I live in Michigan (Zone 5A) can I overwinter my potted dahlias right in their pots in my garage as long as I don’t water the soil during their storage months ?
This is the best video on potting up and taking dahlia cuttings that I've seen. Now I know what I've been doing wrong. Edited to ask, can the cuttings be taken all season long or just at the beginning before planting them outside? Thanks for this video.
All season
If I pot straight in garden area is it the same way planting?
Are egg cartons deep enough to get cuttings started? If I can get more use out of these $10 eggs, I'll be thrilled. And if not for the dahlias, would you please suggest other flower/veg seed/bulb options. (I'm in L.A. for zone reference.) Thanks!
Not deep enough for dahlias however you could definitely start seedlings in them
I have yet to watch this video due to lack of time right now. However, every time I see the thumbnail, I think you have 2 mugs of coffee in your hands ;)
Got a question. I potted my tubers …. They are not growing green sprouts. But they are growing long eyes. What do I do???
Hi friend! I have a question for you. Do you know what plant is “ora pros nobis”, botanical name is: pereskia aculeata? I live in zone 8b and I would love to have this plant because it has tremendously benefits. I wait to you to let talk about this plant. Thank you!
Brian: Great info. Do you plant the dangling tube like pieces that you cut off the main tuber? Also, do you have to dig them up at the end of the warm season, or will they come back next year if I leave the tubers in the ground? Thx!
What if my tubers have roots but no eyes…. Is it a total loss or shud I keep them ?
Soooo, if I totally buried my clumps of tubers, do I need to dig them back up and get their heads up out of the ground?
No... I learned in zone 8 from an elderly gentleman that ruled for decades with Best in Show & tons of 1st place ribbons at fair Every year & he didn't do ANY of the stuff he just showed.
He dug & divided tubers by end of November after the first frost. Stored tubers in a plastic bag 6" underground in their growing location by their stake that had their name on it.
Then in late March - early April he dug them up, planted the best 2-3 tubers horizontally, bud nodes up, 4" underground with a shovel of compost in the hole 1st.
PERIOD.
Then went on to grow the most majestic, prize winning dahlias You ever saw!!!
None of the stuff this man just did. I am curious why he is doing all that unnecessary stuff in a warm climate...
I get it with taking cuttings which Mr Noteboom never did.
Normally You get several plants to give away from every tuber every yr so not sure why cuttings are necessary??
But obviously an option which is ok to know about...
I'm kinda confused about this program.
If the temperature is right the foilage will emerge through the soil, just can't put them outside before the soil warms. I learned the hard way with my Caladium, put them out too early and that was it for them
Can you tell me what potting mix you are using
With the all mess you will have problems with your wife. Lol !!
What are you doing with all the dangly tubers you had cut off the cluster? Plant them separately, or discard?
They won't grow. Compost
Ugh, I just planted my dahlia's and I didn't do it right lol. Should have watched this first!
Costco sells flowers?
HD dahlias have never produced flowers for me😢. Here's hoping this year we'll get something other than green leaves
Don't forget to let us know what to do with them in the fall. ( elephant ears too)
7:25 Most people do everyday.
I can’t concentrate on what you are doing because I’m wondering what your wife is going to do to you when she sees the dirt on the floor. 😅
That’s what vacuum cleaners are for. 😊
Maybe he’s happily single?
@@user-mc3tp5sd2z it was a joke.
@@ellenrittgers990 I’m joking.
𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜😘😘😘
So are the dangling thing tubors and can grow eye/sprout?