This exquisite mix of beautiful dahlia seeds will give you flowers with colour ranges in highly sought after styles (will not be exactly as pictures shown) - buff, pale peach, rose-pink, blush, red, burgundy, yellow, cream, light pink, and purple. Plants are incredibly free-flowering and produce mounds and mounds of blooms. One of the most exciting discoveries when growing dahlias is learning how the new varieties are created. Unlike tubers or cuttings, which produce an exact clone of the plant they come from, dahlias grown from seed offer millions of new possibilities, each one something that’s never existed before. Every flower is a surprise as to what it will look like!
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Seeds should be started indoors at least 6 to 8 weeks before you want to plant them out. Dahlia seeds germinate sporadically be patient — they will come up but it can take up to three weeks.
Direct-seeding into the garden is not recommended.
Dahlias do best in rich, heavily amended soil. We prepare or flower beds with compost and organic fertilizer.
Space plants 10 in apart and water deeply twice a week when you plant them out. The slugs and snails love tender dahlia seedlings so apply an organic slug control product immediately after transplanting to protect them while they get established.
To increase the overall number of flowers and encourage long, strong stems, pinch them. Once plants are 8 to 12 in tall, snip off the top 3 to 4 inches just above a set of leaves. This causes the plant to send up multiple stems below the cut.
Unless you’re leaving seedpods to mature for breeding purposes, remove spent blooms often so the plants put their energy into flower production rather than making seed. You will find some pods in the fall to save seed even if you keep them cut all season long.
Dahlias are not long-lasting cut flowers, but you can get about 5 days by picking at the right stage and using floral preservative. Dahlias won’t unfurl much after harvesting. Pick them when they are almost fully open for large, full blooms.
If you haven’t grown dahlias from seed, I highly encourage you to give it a try—it’s one of the most exciting things you will ever experience!
Dahlia Cross Pollinated Seeds Original Floret Can Can Girls Pkg 25 Seeds
Due to the nature of seeds as a product, we cannot accept returns or exchanges. If you have any concerns about your seeds, they are defective, damaged, or you received the wrong product, please contact us immediately so that we can evaluate the issue and correct it.