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Yellow[_3_] · 01-09-2016, 05:53 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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Anticipating my house move, I planted a couple of my dahlia
tubers in large pots.

They seem to have grown fine, but there are no flowers on them!
There seems to be a small bud at the tip of each shoot, which
has not done anything.

I know they have been a bit mistreated during the move,
holidays etc, with some dry periods, and at one stage being
left standing in water for a week.

Whist I'm not too concerned about the lack of flowers, I am
hoping the tubers will survive for next year and was wondering
if/what I could do to help them?

Sunshine and water.

My dahlias have been quite late flowering this year but every time we
have a few days of really sunny weather I follow it up with a good
soaking and I am rewarded with a fresh batch of flowers.

I grow mine from seed, fresh each year, but I doubt that makes much
difference.