From Google:- These odd-looking bumps on the tubers are lenticels. They happen because the tuber has been exposed to a lot of water in your soil. They do not affect the tubers. They are harmless
I love your seedling setup. It's very inspiring. Unfortunately, I can't sow at this time of year as we've got alot of frosts going on in the Glen Innes Severn 🥶
You have a lot more specific knowledge than I, and I was wondering…I use some of my comfrey leaves as mulch, yes, yet I also feed it to all my chickens, ducks, and rabbit. I then compost their poop straw for the garden. How much of that gorgeous potassium do you think will pass into the compost through their digestive tracts. I’ve been unable to find answers in any of my books nor online and wondered if you’d come across it.
I grow all my dahlias in 40L rootpouch grow bags due to limited space (my garden beds are all natives). But the tubers love them and they drain really well!
Hi Robin, I'm pretty sure those little cauliflower like nodules on your tubers is a pretty bad disease. I was watching blossom and branch regenerative flower farm and she discussed it in one of her dahlia videos. It can spread to all of them. I'm in the Bowral area and have just started growing dahlias so have been binge watching a lot of videos about them. Love your channel and wish you the best.
Hi Sue! Thanks so much for watching the videos! I was pretty worried when I pulled them. I'm still not 100% sure if the tubers have a disease in addition to lenticels from all the rain. Unfortunately all of them in my 4 beds were rotten and I won't be saving any :( It's been a hard season for dahlias for us but learning for years to come! Hope you have a great rest of your week! Bowral is such a beautiful area :)
I don't know why but my comment has disappeared from yesterday. The bumps are definitely lenticels, not gall, not something to stress about. They happen when the tubers are wet - which is obviously the case for you currently. They look weird and a bit confronting but they are harmless. I'm sorry about your tubers, very disheartening. Were you able to salvage any? Going forward I think you'd be fine if you built some height up so the tubers are sitting above ground level. I'd be happy to send some excess tubers in spring - I don't have fancy types to spare at the moment but good workhorse balls/small decs in bright colours, good bouquet fillers. Keep us posted on what you decide to do.
Oh that's strange about the comment - I didn't see it pop up from yesterday. But yes, I agree, they do look like lenticels :) Unfortunately, after inspecting all the tubers, they ended up being rotten from the centre so I couldn't save any :( I'm going to have to think about how to grow them next season if I decide to...
I'm so sorry about your dahlia tubers. Maybe just save the tubers from the seedlings if they survived - at least you have something to start with next season without buying new tubers 🙂 sometimes people don't even know the value of a stem of dahlia vs sunflower for example so I wonder if it's worth it for you to invest again.
What a shame about the tubers, sorry! Also clearly I have no idea about the growths but it seems there’s some very mixed signals in the responses 😅😂 Hope they’re nothing too serious xx
Yeah they were looking so funky!! Sad that all of them were rotten actually... so I'm going to have to rethink the dahlia situation next season I think :/
So sorry to see you lost so many dahlia tubers. Which varieties beyond Marshmallow? If I have spares and don't have rot myself Id be more than happy to send some your way to say thanks for your videos. Susan @proteahill
Thanks Susan! Ahh I lost all of them actually.... I really should have pulled them up a month or so ago before all that rain.... but oh well. Thank you so much for the offer! I'd be more than willing to trade some bath salts for some once I figure out if/how I'm going to grow them next season. I need to do some serious planning for next summer I think :/
@thenaturepatch I know the feeling! I have to sit down and plan too. I'll let you know how I go when I've pulled all mine up. I started today, on dark by the time I had got the netting and posts pulled down. There were a few rotted, but the most looked ok so far... the light will tell ;) and with a wet weekend ahead I need to get digging.
From Google:- These odd-looking bumps on the tubers are lenticels. They happen because the tuber has been exposed to a lot of water in your soil. They do not affect the tubers. They are harmless
Yeah I think that's what they are! With all the rain we've been having makes sense :(
@@thenaturepatch it’s so dry in southern nsw. Tonight will be the first decent rain in months.
Give it a go, apparently you can't plant garlic that had paper come off. All of them came up. Plants are more resilient than we give them credit for !
Hi Robin, me again. I think the white things you have on that tuber is dahlia gall.
I love your seedling setup. It's very inspiring.
Unfortunately, I can't sow at this time of year as we've got alot of frosts going on in the Glen Innes Severn 🥶
You have a lot more specific knowledge than I, and I was wondering…I use some of my comfrey leaves as mulch, yes, yet I also feed it to all my chickens, ducks, and rabbit. I then compost their poop straw for the garden. How much of that gorgeous potassium do you think will pass into the compost through their digestive tracts. I’ve been unable to find answers in any of my books nor online and wondered if you’d come across it.
The white spots on the tubers are lenticles and completely harmless and normal! They're like pores and noticable when it's been wet.
I grow all my dahlias in 40L rootpouch grow bags due to limited space (my garden beds are all natives). But the tubers love them and they drain really well!
@@redsherbet I think I'm going to have to do something like that for next season! They can't cope with our clay soils :/
Hi Robin, I'm pretty sure those little cauliflower like nodules on your tubers is a pretty bad disease. I was watching blossom and branch regenerative flower farm and she discussed it in one of her dahlia videos. It can spread to all of them. I'm in the Bowral area and have just started growing dahlias so have been binge watching a lot of videos about them. Love your channel and wish you the best.
Hi Sue! Thanks so much for watching the videos! I was pretty worried when I pulled them. I'm still not 100% sure if the tubers have a disease in addition to lenticels from all the rain. Unfortunately all of them in my 4 beds were rotten and I won't be saving any :( It's been a hard season for dahlias for us but learning for years to come! Hope you have a great rest of your week! Bowral is such a beautiful area :)
I don't know why but my comment has disappeared from yesterday. The bumps are definitely lenticels, not gall, not something to stress about. They happen when the tubers are wet - which is obviously the case for you currently. They look weird and a bit confronting but they are harmless.
I'm sorry about your tubers, very disheartening. Were you able to salvage any? Going forward I think you'd be fine if you built some height up so the tubers are sitting above ground level. I'd be happy to send some excess tubers in spring - I don't have fancy types to spare at the moment but good workhorse balls/small decs in bright colours, good bouquet fillers. Keep us posted on what you decide to do.
Oh that's strange about the comment - I didn't see it pop up from yesterday. But yes, I agree, they do look like lenticels :) Unfortunately, after inspecting all the tubers, they ended up being rotten from the centre so I couldn't save any :( I'm going to have to think about how to grow them next season if I decide to...
I'm so sorry about your dahlia tubers. Maybe just save the tubers from the seedlings if they survived - at least you have something to start with next season without buying new tubers 🙂 sometimes people don't even know the value of a stem of dahlia vs sunflower for example so I wonder if it's worth it for you to invest again.
What a shame about the tubers, sorry! Also clearly I have no idea about the growths but it seems there’s some very mixed signals in the responses 😅😂 Hope they’re nothing too serious xx
Yeah they were looking so funky!! Sad that all of them were rotten actually... so I'm going to have to rethink the dahlia situation next season I think :/
So sorry to see you lost so many dahlia tubers. Which varieties beyond Marshmallow? If I have spares and don't have rot myself Id be more than happy to send some your way to say thanks for your videos. Susan @proteahill
Thanks Susan! Ahh I lost all of them actually.... I really should have pulled them up a month or so ago before all that rain.... but oh well. Thank you so much for the offer! I'd be more than willing to trade some bath salts for some once I figure out if/how I'm going to grow them next season. I need to do some serious planning for next summer I think :/
@thenaturepatch I know the feeling! I have to sit down and plan too. I'll let you know how I go when I've pulled all mine up. I started today, on dark by the time I had got the netting and posts pulled down. There were a few rotted, but the most looked ok so far... the light will tell ;) and with a wet weekend ahead I need to get digging.