Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
A few years ago (from a cut flower grower's perspective) I would have said "toss 1825 on the compost pile". For the last decade I suppose It was difficult for florists to convince brides that lavender was the "in" color. So, my lavender dahlias took their place with the yellows at the bottom of the popularity heap. I try to keep mother plants of colors that are not trending because I know someday the color will be back in demand. In 1985 my best selling cut dahlia was "Camano Choice", I was getting a better price per stem than any dahlia i sell now. Two years ago I gave up on the lavender dahlias and dumped all of my lavender mother plants. .After 10 years I figured it was not worth the labor and expense to keep them watered and fertilized. Last fall my broker said he needed lavender dahlias this year. Now I am paying (big) money for tubers of varieties I composted two years ago.
teddahlia Feb 25, 2020 12:56 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
HH Funhouse close up. I hope our red sport of it stays red as I like it even better.
drewtheflorist Feb 25, 2020 1:40 PM PDT
Name: Drew the Florist 14 miles S E of Pittsburgh
How does 1825 look under fluorescent light ? Some of those colors that win in shows look like crap outside under natural light...
teddahlia Feb 25, 2020 2:43 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
1825 did not win "the pick it for the kitchen table bouquet prize" and so I have no idea what it looks like inside.
teddahlia Mar 2, 2020 9:28 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Unknown seedling????
Why don't cameras know the seedling number of the flower in the picture? Every year I make a New Years resolution to be better about taking a picture of the plant tag. However, as age creeps up on us, getting down on the ground(that is the easy part as we all know getting up again is the issue)to find the plant tag gets harder to do. We have about three seedlings that look like this one. I can narrow it down and I bet it is 18 16, a 6th generation seedling. If that is right, it is a good tuber maker.
What a wonderful flower! You might try tying a piece of surveyor tape to the plant support at flowering level with the ID on it and snapping a photo of it when you take the flower photo, just like we take a photo at dahlia shows to ID other peoples display flowers. I run a string at that level when tying up my beds so its easy to tie the tag to it when the plant is tall enough...or you could tag the plant when it reaches close to eye level and that would save having to get down to ground level.
As one creaky old body to another, working from a light weight folding lawn chair makes a lot of things easier. You can bend forward to see what is on the ground or reach up to work on the plant, disbud, etc.and its easy to move along the rows. Much much easier on old knees and backs.
teddahlia Mar 2, 2020 10:14 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
I liked the way Ken Greenway labeled his plants in the garden and we used that method in 2012 when we had the National Show tour here. One piece of baling twine is strung above the row of dahlias and a 12 inch+ piece of the ubiquitous surveyor's tape with the name written on it with a sharpie is tied to the string. If the wind did not move the labels and the sharpie would not fade, it works really well.
Yes, that is the method I use and where I learned about it...:-). I do tie mine down about 4' off the ground rather then above the plants and the foliage helps keep the tags from shifting along it. Mine never fades so much I can't read it at the end of the season.
teddahlia Apr 9, 2020 9:39 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Karen Bull's seedling picture she posted to Facebook.
PNWGal Apr 9, 2020 3:20 PM PDT
Name: Linda Portland OR, zone 8b
Fascinating - barbs just on the tips.
teddahlia Apr 18, 2020 2:23 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
2010 picture
teddahlia Apr 20, 2020 8:46 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Orange flower close up.
Cosey Apr 21, 2020 1:16 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
Bloomquist John F
Cosey Apr 21, 2020 1:17 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
Beautiful but unidentified.
teddahlia Apr 21, 2020 2:01 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Paul Bloomquist seems to name his flowers after people. He has originated a lot of very nice dahlias but since he personally does not sell them, they often are here today and gone tomorrow .
blown_dry Apr 21, 2020 2:59 PM PDT
Name: Amanda CA Redwood Coast - Zone 9b DahliaAddict.com
Very lovely, LeeAnn.
Cosey Apr 21, 2020 6:53 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
teddahlia wrote:Paul Bloomquist seems to name his flowers after people. He has originated a lot of very nice dahlias but since he personally does not sell them, they often are here today and gone tomorrow .
That might change with his new relationship with Triplewren Farms. I germinated his seeds he sold through them last fall.
Cosey, I look forward to seeing what you get from your seeds. There could be some very nice things in there.
Cosey Apr 22, 2020 12:24 PM PDT
Name: LeeAnn Zone 6b, Pennsylvania
Islander wrote:Cosey, I look forward to seeing what you get from your seeds. There could be some very nice things in there.
I have old favorites and new parent stock to try. Seeds from all over the US and overseas. It's going to be an exciting year! Lots of photography fodder.
And to keep in theme with this thread, here's another photo. Seedling of HH Kris Kringle.
teddahlia Apr 22, 2020 12:35 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
People like the muted colors of your seedling. Kris Kringle makes a few seeds and the seedlings vary quite a bit. Here is the one we kept and I am taking cuttings to increase stock.
