Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
ksc wrote:
Here's a nice one, Spider Au Lait...
That's really interesting! How big is the bloom?
SteveM Sep 25, 2021 3:51 PM PDT
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
teddahlia wrote:
Our seedling called Dirty Duck.
Another exotic set of genes. Is that a fully double Orchid? Maybe closer to Valley Porcupine?
ksc Sep 26, 2021 9:21 AM PDT
Name: kevin MA South Shore
SteveM wrote:
That's really interesting! How big is the bloom?
They were about 5-6".
DillyDahlia Oct 3, 2021 1:21 PM PDT
Name: Tina NY Zone 5b/6a Flower Power!
Lovely photos everyone.
ksc Oct 13, 2021 2:15 PM PDT
Name: kevin MA South Shore
Here's a nice combination.
This on has the same idea,
teddahlia Oct 13, 2021 3:38 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Very Exotic pictures. Is it HH Exotica?
ksc Oct 13, 2021 4:09 PM PDT
Name: kevin MA South Shore
Yes, that's HH Exotica and HH Tempest. The Tempest had 3 blooms on one branch at almost the same time, so I took some cuttings off that branch and will try to over winter them. I'll see if those cuttings produce plants with more flowers next year (if they survive).
teddahlia Oct 13, 2021 5:59 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
HH Tempest is a genetic mish-mash of weird traits. It grows a very large plant and may have more than the octoploid number of chromosomes. The tuber clumps can be massive if grown with lots of good soil and fertilizer. They are hard to divide. It has very few flowers normally and blooms very late. The reason people like it is the exotic deep lavender flowers with dark purple variegation. However, many of the flowers are just solid purple. I keep trying to stop growing it as it is a pain in the butt but my wife insists on having it in the garden.
edewitt Oct 16, 2021 10:32 PM PDT
Name: Eric DeWitt Mountainair, NM
Well unless the weather plays nice this will be the first and last bloom of AC Devin this year. I took this one at sunset so it soaked a bit of yellow into the white.
sapphireriver Oct 18, 2021 10:10 PM PDT
Name: Heidi South Carolina Zone 7b/8a
Hollyhill Orange Ice from earlier this year. It's blooming with more orange now that it's cooler. It's such a good cut flower.
sapphireriver Oct 18, 2021 10:11 PM PDT
Name: Heidi South Carolina Zone 7b/8a
Black Beauty
teddahlia Oct 19, 2021 7:21 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Orange Ice has not made seeds for us and it would be a good seed parent. Our records show it was a seedling of an A sized dahlia. Black Beauty makes seeds and has had several successful seedlings.
Black Beauty seedling. Margaret really likes this one.
Is Margaret keeping that one for herself or will she allow us to try it? I would very much like to!
I. collected a lot of seeds from HH Black Beauty this season. Who knows what might luck there
AndreaB Oct 19, 2021 6:30 PM PDT
Name: Andrea SE Michigan
sapphireriver wrote:Hollyhill Orange Ice from earlier this year. It's blooming with more orange now that it's cooler. It's such a good cut flower.
Yours looks so different from mine, Heidi. Could these both be HH Orange Ice or is mine an imposter?
Maybe Ted will know!
sapphireriver Oct 19, 2021 6:49 PM PDT
Name: Heidi South Carolina Zone 7b/8a
Mine is showing a lot more orange now that it's cooler. But during the summer it was very very pink - which I loved!
This is from about a month ago, it's showing even more orange now.
teddahlia Oct 19, 2021 8:11 PM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
My picture from way back when.
teddahlia Oct 20, 2021 11:03 AM PDT
Name: Ted Oregon We enjoy breeding new dahlias!
Seedlings but they are losing their color in the cooler weather.
ksc Oct 24, 2021 2:35 PM PDT
Name: kevin MA South Shore
HH Wicked Witch sports
SteveM Oct 24, 2021 4:27 PM PDT
Name: Steve San Diego Commercial cut flower grower
Fantastic sports! Were you able to save any of them? The colors on the top one are stunning and the bottom one might be one of the darkest dahlias out there.
Here's a nice combination.
