Dahlia Leaf cuttings, using age old rare method of taking cuttings
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- This method was taught to me as a boy by my grandfather it is an effective way to take leaf cuttings and to double or quadruple your Dahlia flowers.
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It seems like nobody else does close-ups or shows exactly where you need to cut except this video. You are amazing. Thank you so much.
Thank you, and good luck 👍👍
OMG! I have just looked at my cuttings and I am never going back to the old "tip cuttings" method! Did a bit of an experiment and did some the old way and some the way your grandfather did it. And his method has way better results than the old method. Thank you so much for sharing this!
That's great well done 👍👍
In the world of TH-cam, the vast majority of videos are pointless. You my friend have shared something wonderful, unique and different. I am going to get some cuttings off my Bishops children right now.
That's great, go for it, it works. 👍👍👍
Totally agree.
Thank you for the video. I tried this method in the spring and now have 3 well-growing dahlia plants. Greetings from the Netherlands.
That's great, spring is the best time as with most cuttings, good luck 👍👍
Thank you for this video. You were very clear and precise about how to do it. I have one beautiful dahlia and now you've shown me how to make more. Blessings to you.
Ive never seen this method before! Off to give it a try! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!
Yes go for it, it really works.
Every day is a school day. Will certainly be giving this method a try. Thank you for sharing it with us. 👍🏻
It really works, good luck 👍👍
Thank you for sharing this. I have been gardening for over 50 years and never seen this method. I always thought cuttings had to be taken right down at the tuber.
Glad it's helped u, good luck 👍👍
Tried this method now have multiple plants excellent tip
That's great 👍👍
I’m thankful to you for posting this tutorial and thankful to your grandfather for passing this propagation method down to you. I had great success with this method, and it was the first time I’ve ever tried propagating dahlias! Thank you so much!
That's great and thank you, it's a great way 👍👍
This worked great for me. 4 rooted cuttings instead of 1. Amazing
Subscribed for the channel name, staying for the awesome tips! Thank you very much for sharing your Grandad's wisdom!
Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to show this technique..love the old plants-people ways. You've produced a very clear and useful video and I'll definitely be using this technique.
Thank you 👍👍
I'm in the sub tropics, so I start all my seeds outside. I'm dying to someone to show how to do the cuttings if you don't have a heatmat or indoor light setup. This was GREAT, by the way! Thank you so much! I could only afford 10 tubers, so this should help me get many many more ... if only I could figure out where to put the cuttings! I'm sure our summer temp's in spring will scorch them.
So glad you taught me this! Thank you.
Good luck 👍👍
What a great video!! Going to try this way this year. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about how to root Dahlias
Oh my goodness! Am just about to take cuttings the "usual" way and stumbled across your video! Definitely going to give this a go! Whats not to like - more plants for the same amount of "usual" cutting!
It's a great way of more cuttings, good luck 👍👍
Thank you for sharing this dahlia propagation method. I’ve never heard of it, but it’s a game changer! I’ll definitely give it a try this year. Thank you again-and I wish you the best!
Thank you very much for your comment I'm glad it helped, we will be doing a video shortly to show the progress now they have rooted.
Thanks all the best
Tried this method and it's working! Thank you so much!
That's great good luck
I did as you said and doubled the number of dahlias I've got, cutting in half the cost of buying a six-pack of the plants. They look vibrant!
That's brilliant, it's a great way to increase stock fast, good luck 👍👍
I have used this method about thirty years ago with fuchsias when you don’t have much material to take cuttings from. I have not tried this method on dahlias so I will give it a try for the best varieties I have.
Yeah it works on most soft stemmed plants, good luck 👍👍
What a great TH-cam channel. All video tutorials are very well presented with detailed information. Without a doubt, it is one of the best gardening programmes on TH-cam.
Thank you 👍👍
Great method ! 👏
Thank you for sharing , it is something what i learned first time
Thank you for this video, very useful! I live in an area where we struggle to get dahlia stock so this will be a great method to make more available to local people 🌼
This is very informative. Thank you Sir! God Bless
Great vid! Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this, it was very helpful! I found you from the Collarette Corner group.
Thank you for sharing ..... very informative
Wonderful, thank you!
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Thnk you so much for showing such a wonderful method and now I learnt something new .💚💚🌿🍀
That's great good luck in 23 👍👍
Just watched the video ive never heard of doing cuttings like this before, i will be giving this a go in april i have now subscibed ,and look forward to watching more videos from you thanks alot regards jeff.
That's great Jeff. Good luck 👍👍
Plants are amazing.... Thanks for sharing
Just made my first dahlia cuttings this afternoon! Thank you
Wonderful video, thank you. I am excited to try this next Spring. I started some dahlias from seed this year and got a pretty lavender and white one that I would like to propagate. cheers!
Excellent video thank you .👍
Thank you so much . I have my tubers in gallon pots and growing . I will be trying this method in the summer
We’ll done! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I look forward to trying your method.
Great, good luck, it works great 👍👍
Thank you! Have you tried this method with other plants, like Roses or Rhodos? Just curious, thank you @@sausagefingersgardeningtip2326
So cool!! I'm trying this. Wow
Tks for sharing this dahlia propagation method! I knew the one of scraping the plant n dipping it in the root hormones! Tks to you I’ve learned another method 🙏🙏🤩💐
That's great good luck 👍👍
Gracias! Nunca vi, muy interesante metodo para tener mas dahlia! Una exelencia! Boy a intertarla hacer igual!
Thank you from London.
Great! Thank you!🎉
Great video
Excellent! thank you. I want to increase my "black Honka" Dahlia...this method looks perfect.
Wonderful video; short, sweet, to the point, and great pictures and camera work. I plan on trying this next year for some older and hard to get rarities i want to grow and pass on to others to keep the gene pool going. Thanks!
WOW thank you so much!!!!!!!!!
I'll be trying this technique. Thank you for sharing it. 👍
Good luck 👍👍
Excellent! Using this method after watching this. Works lovely, thank you for sharing 🙏
That's great 👍👍
Excellent :)
Fantástico video!!
Thank you good luck in 24 👍👍
great video thanks!
Your welcome 👍👍
Just subscribed. I will definitely give this a go. Thank you.
Great, best time is spring time just like any other cutting 👍👍
As a complete gardening novice, we have bought a beautiful Dahlia and I wanted to take some cuttings. Is there a particular time when I should do so? Spring, summer, autumn / before or after flowering?
So beautiful plant s
Thank you for this video and the second one! So great to see sequence of how a technique works. Would it be possible to do another short video of planting out these leaf cuttings into the garden letting us know roughly how long until the cuttings were ready to go outdoors? Would also LOVE to see a later season follow up possibly seeing the cuttings flowering and then see if these cuttings developed tubers within the first year? Can leaf cuttings develop fully like that in just one season??? Thanks so much - you are a great teacher and so easy to listen too! Subscribing!
Hi, yes I'm just letting them get a little bigger first 👍👍
Thank you,
Wow that is so cool.
Make sure u watch part 2 👍👍
I followed your advice took my leaf cutting over a month I've left it in pot only difference is I used honey instead of potting hormones. Gently watered
So checked today to see if any progress and I have a healthy root growing 😊 so repotted held breath and smiled. Fingers crossed it continues.
I have a question though do I keep it in greenhouse to get stronger then plant out?
It depends where in the world u are, I'm in the UK and it would bit a little late in the season now with winter round the corner, I'd leave it in the greenhouse, best time for leaf cuttings or any cuttings is spring time really 👍👍
@@sausagefingersgardeningtip2326 thanks for advice 😃always a good learning curve . I'm in UK.
Hare Krishna. So amazing planting
Thank you!
Excellent! I've been looking for this method for almost 2 years! Thank you so very much for sharing this with us 👍
Good luck 👍👍
Thank you so much .
This split stem cutting technique can be used on fuchsias when you are short of cutting material.
You can use it on any soft stem plant
Nice
That was incredibly informative. Thank you for sharing. Best gardening wishes Malgosia and Nigel 🌱😀🌱
Thank you
Well. Now I have to go revisit the cuttings I took yesterday lol.
Good luck 👍👍
This is such an informative video, thank you! Are there drawbacks to letting the plants get bigger before taking the cuttings? Do smaller cuttings root better/faster?
I don't think the size matters as they all seem to root fine 👍👍
What a great video, thank you for sharing! I'm wondering if horticultural grit the same thing as coarse sand? I've never seen horticultural grit here in the USA but we have plenty of sand! ♥
Sand is great too but not builders sand as it has salt in it.
Thank you for a most amazing 'new' propagation method. I noticed that the cutting that you divided into four was the main stem growing out of a tuber. Would your leaf cutting method work on a side shoot? I have a dahlia that I really want to propagate in this current season. It is currently about 19 inches high. One of its side shoots has five leaves and I wondered whether I can use this side shoot to propagate using your method?
Yes difinatly as long as the side stem is wide enough to be cut in half shouldn't be a problem. Any stem with a leaf will work, good luck 👍👍
This is brilliant! Thank you so much. At the end do you mean put them on a heat mat?
If its still cold I'd say yes, a bit of bottom heat is always good for any cuttings, good luck 👍👍
So should we just leave the pots out in the garden or should they be indoors?
Do you pot on the rooted cuttings to finish the process? Or leave them all in the same pot?
Thanks great video!
Thanks, but what if you don’t have root hormone? I was wondering if they will root in water? My landscaper broke of several branches from my newly planted dahlia that is only 8 inches high.
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It's hormone rooting powder.
Will be trying this system. I have a couple of questions though. How often do you water and if you don’t use a heat mat, how would you suggest you get the heat? Windowsill with direct sunlight or shaded sunlight?
When doing this leaf cutting in April, I understand you give them a source of heat and grow light, but do you keep them under a humidity dome?
🌸🌸 Will those leaf cuttings produce ‘tubers’ or just a plant and blooms?
No the will make good tubers,
Very informative video 😃
I had one question, will shoots need to be young for this to work? Can I try this with side branches of my plant?
Yes will work too, as long as there a leaf node should work great 👍👍
@@sausagefingersgardeningtip2326 Thank you very much! Excited to give it a try 😄
Thank you for this! Once they've got roots, do I plant them in the garden? And then, when I dig them up in the fall, will they have formed tubers? Very informative!
Thank you for your comment. I have just uploaded a video to show the roots but I will be leaving mine a few weeks from now to allow the roots to get bigger and stronger then I'll put them in the ground. And yes they will form tubers. Thank you
@@sausagefingersgardeningtip2326 Thanks! I'll check out the roots video. Much appreciated!
Thanks for this info! Just wondering….should this be done in the spring from plants in the early stages of sprouting?
Yes spring time is best, all the timing is exactly the same as normal stem cuttings, good luck 👍👍
Great, thank you, I’m in NZ so the seasons are back to front, the dahlias are huge and happy and I’m impatient to give this a go ! 😂😂
Thanks for this tip. I’ve never had much success at cuttings before but I’m hoping your method will work for me. What other plants can you take leaf cuttings from??
Almost any with the same structure as dahlias. 👍
Yes this has been a total game changer for me. My cuttings are now out and looking good. A good baCk up too for a few finicky varieties I have! Thanks
Do you have to have rooting powder? I’m new do dahlias but I love them.
No not compulsory but I always use it, some never use it and still works great 👍👍
I just read yesterday that you can use cinnamon powder and honey instead of buying root powder. I'm trying it to see if it works.
No you don't have to, it's just something I use on all cuttings
Question: At what point do you plant these in garden after? Also, when you see a sprout are they eventually making tubers under them? Thanks for any answers.
You can plant them out as soon as there big enough like a normal cutting weather permitting of course, they make a normal tuber just like a stem cutting.
@@sausagefingersgardeningtip2326 I appreciate you.
Mine went all wilty! I did it yesterday (it’s spring here in NZ) and they’ve not perked up again yet! I still have faith, but have you got any ideas why they did that?
Hi, where and what brand of rooting powder did you use? Also, when is the best time to take dahlia cutting to do this. Thanks in advance.
Hi, u can use any rooting powder or gel, spring time is best but almost most of the summer too
My dahlia is dying, all the leaves are turning brown. It has enough water. Can I make some new cuttings to make a new one?
Great video example! What kind of scalpel are you using?
Hi thanks for watching, It's a surgical curled blade number 5
In the USA, it’s a #12 blade on a long knife handle. Rarely used.
Great video, Can I use builders sand from stock i already have?
Hi, No, builders sand is not suitable as it contains salt, please use either horticultural sand or even play sand is fine. Hope this helps 👍👍
Can I use this method without a heatmat and just putting them at the window in my bedroom?
Yes of course as long as its not cold, a window sill is great, bottom heat like my hotbed or a heat matt just speeds up rooting but ur good with a window sill 👍👍
Hello, great video. How long does it take from planting these to developing the tuber? And what's the ideal time to plant these leaf cuttings here in UK? Thanks.
Hi, the best time is the same time as any other cuttings which is spring/early summer, if u do them in spring they will produce a normal tuber at the end of the season just like a stem cutting, hope this helps, 👍👍
Great video. How long can you hold dahlia cuttings indoors before you plant them out? I could start cuttings now but it’ll be next May before I can plant them out due to winter weather.
Hi John, unless you have a heated greenhouse thru the winter I'd leave taking the cuttings until next spring say about April, it's hard keeping them alive thru winter for very little growth so u may as well hang on till then 👍👍
@@sausagefingersgardeningtip2326 Thank you! I do have a heated grow room that could be utilized. I’m looking to take cuttings and scale up my stock dramatically for my flower farm. I just wasn’t sure if they could be kept in that environment in sort of in a ”suspended” or slowed growth” state for several months or if they’d grow up and bloom indoors, which is not what I’d want. Hmmm.
@@johnandmichelevaughan1638 hi yes if you've got similar conditions to the growing year then yes by all means will be fine, growing light is more important than heat as the light levels and light duration reduces in winter, are u on messenger if so I'll send u some pictures of ones I took about 3 weeks ago
I have one question. I couldn't quite see where you took the cutting from. Did you cut it from the tuber or just above the tuber?
It's was just at the tuber
How long do you keep them on heat?
Very interesting. If i take this cutting now the 7th of June, will it grow into a blooming plant this very summer do you think? (would love to replicate an amazing dahlia i have in the ground...). Thanks
I can't see why not it depends where in the world you are, a couple of decent months weather and should do fine 👍👍
@@sausagefingersgardeningtip2326 thanks, no harm in giving it a go!
I dont think many or possibly any will root, because the cuttings are too small, dahlia cuttings are difficult anyway this reduces their 4:10 4:15 chances further.
That's where ur wrong they root perfectly and more percentage that normal cuttings, I suggest u try it before u knock it
I have taken some leaf cuttings but they are much slower than yours. It is summer here and I have them on a heat pad and mist them regularly. Any suggestions please?
I'm not sure where in the world you are but spring time is best for leaf cuttings as well as all cuttings really, temperature wise its best if the compost is gritty and approx 70f. Hope this helps 👍👍
Do you keep on watering them.
Id like to know when in the year you do this - sorry if you said it and i missed it
Same time as other types of cuttings, spring to early summer 👍👍
Do you have any suggestions for a natural product to replace hormone powder? Thanks.
I've heard that honey and cinnamon works great too