Growing Dahlias From Seed

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0	You can actually grow dahlias from seed, something that I've personally never tried.
0:17.6	Just got my feet wet with dahlias from tubers last year, but we have Jennifer Galizia on the show. She's the flower farmer behind the
0:24.4	flowering farmhouse and also has a podcast herself. It's called The Backyard Bouquet
0:28.8	podcast and is a Dahlian flower growing educator that I've personally learned quite a bit from just over the course of this week Jennifer and so I did not really realize that it was practical I suppose to grow Dahlias from seed like when we look at a fruit tree, an apple, a citrus,
0:45.2	it's like one of those like you can but you wouldn't type of things.
0:48.8	And I didn't know that wasn't the case with dahlias.
0:51.6	You can certainly grow dahlias from seed.
0:54.2	I have been hybridizing dahlias for the last four years,
0:57.0	which means that I collect seeds from my plants
1:00.0	and I grow them out in our field.
1:03.1	It is an interesting process.
1:05.2	If you are listening and you're like,
1:07.1	oh, I want to try growing a Dahlia from seed.
1:09.6	The thing that you need to know
1:11.1	is that Dahlia's grown from seed are going to produce a
1:14.2	brand new variety. So that means most of them grown from seed are going to be
1:20.2	open-centered Dahlia's so they're going to be great for the bees, The bees are going to love them, but they're likely going to have an
1:26.7	open center, especially if they've been collected from a field that has any open center
1:31.7	dahlias, meaning the dahlias where you see the big pollen in the center.
1:35.7	Great for braining pollinators to the garden, but those typically don't make great cut flowers because they have a short vase life.
1:42.4	So if you're thinking,
1:43.0	I'm going to start a flower farm
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