Re: question re dahlias

At 02:14 PM 9/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:

Can I add to the dahlia question.  Every year I buy the little patio pot
dahlias and every year they develop lots of buds but by mid August the buds
don't open, they seem to rot in the bud stage.  What am I doing wrong?
Sounds like botrytis - a common fungus. Get out the baking soda - 2tblsp /gallon of water and spray regularly. You don't say how you are growing them but too much overhead watering or too crowded conditions or morning shade will add to your problem.

Doug
who promises to go back to lurking now that he's expended his entire year's quota of letters in one day.




Thanks,
Heather
Zone 5, Ontario


----- Original Message -----
From: "Isabelle Hayes" <bhayes@catskill.net>
To: "perennials" <perennials@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 10:32 AM
Subject: question re dahlias


> Greetings:  As I've written here before, my dahlias have just only now
> begun to bloom, and some of them still not even showing any buds;
>
> here in NYS zone 5, it could freeze at night sometime this month;
>
> my question is:  will the dahlias that didn't get to bloom this year be
> worth keeping over the winter?  or will their failure to bloom one
> season affect them permanently?
>
> TIA
>
> Isabelle Hayes
>
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