flowerless Keep or toss? in the Dahlias forum

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gardengus

Sep 29, 2015 7:53 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Cinda
Indiana Zone 5b
Dances with Dirt

Just wondering if you ever have a flowerless plant and do you give it a second chance?
I have one that looks healthy and was planted same time and with the same care as the others . No buds yet and we are just a couple weeks away from the first frost.
I only have a few dahlias(6) not sure I want to waist time and garden space on a dud

Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.

| @gardengus | Post #961089 (1)

pirl

Sep 29, 2015 8:08 PM CST

Name: Arlene
Southold, Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)

I'd keep it. There are a few that haven't given me any blooms at all but I'll just give them better spots to grow next year.

| @pirl | Post #961100 (2)

mandolls

Sep 30, 2015 6:39 AM CST

Name: Geof
NW Wisconsin (Zone 4b)

I have had a few over the years that were really slow, and I either got no blooms from, or just 1 or 2 towards the end of the season - and yet when planted the following year they did great, so I'd give it another chance.

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Hemophobic

Sep 30, 2015 6:42 AM CST

Name: Angie
Concord, NC (zone 7)

Maybe consider moving to another location next year if you lift your tubers over the winter.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace

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pirl

Sep 30, 2015 8:09 AM CST

Name: Arlene
Southold, Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)

Last year Zoey Rey and Penhill Yellow Dark Monarch gave me their first bloom a few days before frost. This year they've been in bloom for weeks already.

| @pirl | Post #961263 (5)