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- Pull dahlias out of seeds
- Sowed dahlias are not always pure
- Collect seeds
- This is how dahlias are sown
- Where to go with the sown dahlias in autumn?
- Tips & Tricks
After flowering, the dahlia produces seeds
Pull dahlias out of seeds
Dahlias must be wintered in the house, because frost-hardy are the beautiful summer flowers are not. If you do not have a suitable cellar to overwinter the tubers, simply sow the flowers also called georgia. Dahlia seeds are obtained from plants in their own garden.
Sowed dahlias are not always pure
The biggest disadvantage of sowing georgians is that you never know exactly in which colors and shapes the plants will bloom. By pollinating insects and wind different varieties are mixed together, so that completely new breeds can arise.
Collect seeds
Collecting dahlia seeds requires a bit of tact. Only seeds collected at the right time are germinable. Watch the flowers of dahlias attentively when they have flowered.
Dahlia seeds are ripe for harvesting when the protective cover surrounding them bursts. Now you should immediately pick up the seed you want to sow next spring.
Allow the seed to dry for three to four weeks in a warm place for several weeks and then fill it into small paper or parchment bags. Even matchboxes are well suited.
This is how dahlias are sown
After about ten days, the first tips of the leaves show up. After three weeks, the plantlets are separated and planted in the garden or tub from the end of May.
Where to go with the sown dahlias in autumn?
Sowed dahlias are usually kept once a year. If you want to overwinter it, because the georgia have developed beautiful flowers, dig out the tubers and preferably overwinter them in the basement or elsewhere.
Georgines that you do not want to continue cultivating, because the flowers are not so beautiful or you just do not have a suitable place for hibernation, discard on the compost.
Tips & Tricks
Extra large quantities of germinable seeds are harvested from unfilled dahlias. It matures best and produces strong plants with very different blooms next year.