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Hi everybody glad you stopped in again

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We're just getting into the Dahlia season now

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So I thought I'd cut some Dahlia's and bring them in and I also stopped by my friend Lou West's house, you know

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Lou's well, he's a lawyer, but he likes to grow Dahlia's as a hobby and he's one of the outstanding

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Dahlia growers in the country, you know, he's been just about everything including president of the Central States Dahlia Society and

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Whenever the Dahlia fellows get together for a show

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Anything like that. Well, he's usually right there in the midst of it. I

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Want to show you one in particular here some of these large ones

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Well, this this is pirate treasure

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Well, Jim Marsh who lives not far from here brought this over to me because you know

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Jim's the fellow that actually hybridized and developed this one and it's been quite a sensation

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Just look at the size of that tremendous flower. It's well, that's better than a foot across in diameter

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I just put this back because I want to show you another one of Jim Marsh's latest

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Achievements and that's this one down here. It's a very new one

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In fact, I think just the last year or so that he's developed this and he calls it Prairie Fire

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While we're looking looking at some of these big ones. Look at this. This is called Esquire. That's an informal decorative

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Here's one from Scotland and that's a semi cactus. You see the quills are kind of

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curled back

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About well a semi cactus. They're curled back about halfway and a true cactus is one like this

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Where they're curled back all the way

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Sort of like the spines on a regular cactus

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While we're looking at some of these here's another informal decorative and well, this is called Sunrays and this

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This is from Australia another very nice informal decorative

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No, it's very confusing all the various names of the types of dahlias and

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Well, I wanted to tell you about this little booklet that the

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Central States Dahlia Society originated back in about 1932

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I believe it was and then the American Dahlia Society also joined in with them and it's interesting because

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each year they alternate one year they put the name of the American Dahlia Society on top and then the

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Central States underneath and the following year they'll reverse that put Central States on top and that way that shows no favoritism

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But this lists all the different types

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and to give you some idea of the 14 or 15 types of dahlias that

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Have been classified. Well, there's the single that would be one like this

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You see it just has a single row of petals right around the outside and that's very easy to

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Distinguish then there's mignon and orchid flowering dahlias. Here's an orchid flowering dahlias

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You notice it's almost like a cactus Dahlia with just a single row of petals around the

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the center here

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after that comes an anemone and

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Colorette here's a color rep it has

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Sort of a collar around these smaller petals

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It's sort of a large petals and then smaller ones around the inside and that's called color rep

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Then there's a peony Dahlia. Well over here. Here's a peony Dahlia

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This is a nice bright red one, but that supposed to resemble somewhat of peony

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Well in there are the cactus Dahlia as I pointed out here is a typical cactus Dahlia you can see how

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Spiny the the little petals are just all rolled up

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And then there are the well, let's see under cactus there are the incurved cactus and the straight cactus and

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Semi cactus they're the ones that aren't curled all the way then there are the formal decorative. There's a formal decorative

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You see the the petals are arranged in perfect rows around there very formally arranged

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then there are the informal decorative like these big ones this pirate treasure of Jim Marsh's and

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Balled alias miniature Dahlia's pom-pom Dahlia's well the pom-poms are these little ones like that and

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Dwarf Dahlia's so that gives you an idea of all the different types of Dahlia's that there are and

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Well, I got some pictures that I wanted to show you of Lou West out in his Dahlia garden

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But first here's an important word for you

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Well before I show you the pictures I mentioned I noticed the waters come to a boil here

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You can see it's boiling really vigorously

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I'm gonna just take that off and set it down here

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So that'll stop boiling enough and you can see what I'm gonna do

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Well, I have a little trick that I want to show you about reviving

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Wilted Dahlia's now look at this one. You see it's it's really in bad shape and

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Well, you might think that was ready to be thrown out

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but I just want to get out my

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pocket knife and

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Show you how you can

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Revive your old wilted Dahlia's and make them last for several days more four or five days

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Make a diagonal cut and then put that stem right down into the boiling water

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And you'll notice all those little bubbles coming up

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You see the steam and the heat seems to force the air out of the stem

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when you put this back in the cold water again, it will well it draws the water right up into the stem and

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I'm going to show you a time-lapse picture of how it revised it

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So instead of throwing your Dahlia's out when they first wilt like this

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If you'll just give them this boiling water treatment

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You can revive them and they'll go right on growing it so that you can enjoy them for four or five days more

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It usually takes about 30 to 45 seconds

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Just hold them hold the stems right in that boiling water

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As long as the bubbles come out and then when they when the bubbles stop coming out. Well take them

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Take it and put it right back quickly into the cold water

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And when I show you those time-lapse pictures, I'll show you just how that will revive. Well now

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We might as well go on and look at these pictures that I told you about

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Well here you can see the time-lapse of that

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Dahlia reviving after it had the hot water treatment

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You see it'll go right on growing and developing and more of those petals open up and

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Just looks like a fresh Dahlia you can pull off the ones that were rather wilted at the back

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It'll last for several more days. So just think of this before you throw out any of your

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Dahlia's that look half dead

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Well now let's take a look at Lou West here in his garden

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He has the stakes in and all marked off with spring to get the rows nice and straight

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You see he digs pretty good sized hole to plant his Dahlia tubers in and

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The Dahlia's are heavy feeders. So he works in some plant food

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Turns the soil over works it down

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very nicely little peat moss there and

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Then he'll take the tuber

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You notice he's got the tag right on the tuber that he takes off and he'll fasten that up on the top of the stake

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He plants the the neck of the tuber toward the stake so that that's where the

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Stem will come up start growing right along the stake. It'll be easier to tie it that way

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And then he'll take the tubers and he'll put them on the top of the stake

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And don't forget to put those tags up there because later on when that flower comes out if it's a particularly nice one

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You're gonna want to know what it was

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and the water of course, well now

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earlier in the year Lou starts some of his tubers and cold frames are in the hot bed and

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Develops these new shoots and when they're a couple inches long cut them right off with a pocket knife

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And you can rip those

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and those

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new shoots will develop tubers this coming summer and also develop or grow the same flowers as

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that tuber produced that's one way to

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Reproduce desirable varieties propagate them. You've got a dahlia you like particularly well

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You can divide the tubers in the fall and then of course if you want more than that

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Why you can take and plant some of them earlier than you would outside and then

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Take those little cuttings cut it right below below the leaf node and then trim it off as you see Lou is doing here

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And Lou likes to use a root hormone powder

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Then he puts it in his propagating bench just wet sand keep it moist

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Couple of weeks it'll have some nice roots and be ready to transplant outside

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Here they are a couple of weeks later

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You see those roots they can be planted into individual flower pots or into plant bands

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Which are just oh like those strawberry boxes fruit boxes with but they don't have any bottom. They're thin wood

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They're very convenient. They're square and they fit together better

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You can start values from seed also

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And you would plant you just plant the seed like you would any other seed blue water is a flat of soil first

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Gives it a good soaking of course a good soil that'll drain through very rapidly

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But in this way, then he doesn't wash all the seed out right away after he's planted

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Of course when you plant values from seed you'll get all kinds of different varieties because values don't come true to see

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Little covering with a fine sifted soil and here they are later ready to transplant outside

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Well the procedure is just about the same

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Whether you're planting a tuber or

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Planting some of these young seedlings or young plants that have been started from cuttings

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More plant food and peat moss work it into the soil

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And here is a young plant I would look just about the same whether it was started from cutting or from a seed

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Remember though that from the cuttings and the tubers they come true to flower and from seeds you develop different varieties that way

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One way or the other they've got to be watered

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You'll notice that the blue

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Cut off the bottom leaves as he's planning it deeper and now he cuts the top back

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That's called topping it that encourages side shoots to come out and make a pushier plant

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Then you'll notice he's just budding it here he's taking out those two side buds

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The Dalyaw has developed three buds at the top of each branch

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And he's also taking out these little side shoots at the leaves that just takes extra strength

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And as the plants get taller they have to be tied up

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You want to remember about that disbudding and

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Taking out those little leaf branches

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Here are some flowers. Look visitor

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When you disbud those side buds it encourages the center one makes it larger

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Just look at all those Dalyas just thousands of them brilliant colors. It's a beautiful sight to see

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Well, Lou ought to be down there somewhere amongst them. Yeah, here he is

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He's busy tying them up. He's certainly got a lot of them to tie up there

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He's got to get home early some

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He's just got to get home early Saturday afternoon and tie up his Dalyas

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Look at that. Isn't that a beautiful one?

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Think Lou sneaks off during the week a couple of times too. Well, here's a typical cloth house

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This is Jesse Strauss. He's

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been a Dalyas grower

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many years and

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Of course with the cloth house that helps shade the Dalyas and keeps off many of the insects it gives them protection

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but with the newer

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insecticides that we have these days cloth houses aren't as

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Necessary not used as much as before

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Here's Frank Goswiler with his patented pile driver or I guess it isn't patented

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but it's a good idea anyway a piece of pipe with a cap over it and he just

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slams it up and down drives the stakes in and he uses all the old lampshades he can get and

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Ties them up over his Dalyas to protect them from the hot sun

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Particularly when he's going to enter them in a Dalyas show

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Here's a bushel basket upside down that makes good protection keeps off the heavy driving rain and a thunderstorm

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And the very hot sun of course old umbrellas

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Well Frank's backyard is quite a sight in the Dalyas season

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But Frank certainly won a lot of prizes

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He's entered his Dalyas and many of the Dalyas shows and

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Gonna show you man. Just a minute here. Well, here he is. Are those some beauties?

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Bet some of those would take a ribbon or two

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And he certainly won a ribbon or two in the past

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Look at these few cups also

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Frank Goswiler is one of the outstanding Dalyas grows. Well, that's enough I guess

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Let's have a look at a time-lapse picture of a Dalyas growing

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He just doesn't want to stand still

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Keeps moving back and forth there, but

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It's interesting to watch it open and notice the development that of course as I've told you many times is just a normal growth and development of

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Flowers that motion there's no wind at all. It's blowing them

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He's got a little bit of a

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Desirable quality in a Dalyas to have it kind of raise its head up and face upwards or even upwards a little

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as it develops you don't want them just hanging down looking at the ground after the flower is

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fully developed

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Now I want to give you a little history and background of the Dalyas the Dalyas was originally found

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First in Mexico, that's where it's native and it was growing there

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It was grown by well by the Aztec Indians even before the time of Cortez

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who conquered Mexico back in

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King Philip second of Spain sent

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Dr. Francisco Hernandez who was a naturalist and a botanist in

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1570 over to Mexico to study the

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Natural resources and also the various plants that were growing there because back in those days they were always looking for new plants for

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medicinal purposes

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well, he wrote several books and

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Mentioned Dalyas. Those are the first actual written records that we have of Dalyas

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But he didn't bring any seeds back with him to Spain and the first seeds were brought back from Mexico

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Oh, they were sent from the botanical garden in Mexico over to the royal

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gardens of Madrid in

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the Dalyas was named then by

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Well, it was named after a pupil of Linnaeus who was one of the very famous botanists and this fellow is this pupil's name

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And he was a Swedish fellow

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Andreas Dahl and he had done a lot of work and experimenting and developing Dalyas and they they named it after him

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Well, it was not until about nine. No

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1840 that the Dalyas really became popular in Europe and the first records of it in

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United States were back in 1921

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But even though there was such an interest in Dalyas the first Dalyas Society was the American Dalyas Society formed in

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1915 and the Central States Dalyas Society was formed in 1932

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Well, I'm going to show you how to divide a Dalyas tumor and tell you about

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Digging your Dalyas and storing them for the winter. But right now here's another important word for you

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Think I forgot to mention

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About the Aztec name for a Dalyas and you see on this large flower curse

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Well, this is true with all the Dalyas

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The stem is hollow and the Aztec name for it was a cockly if that's the way you pronounce it

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But it meant water pipe because it's hollow all the way up and well, it's it resembles the water pipe

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Now to clear some of this stuff off

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It's stuck to the table

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And I've got these

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tubers that I want to show you

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How to divide them?

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Of course the time to divide them is in the spring, but let me get these out anyway and

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I want to tell you about storing them for the winter

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Before I tell you about dividing them, which of course has to be done in the spring

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Say a word about digging them and the proper time to take them

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well, you can leave the tubers in the ground right up till the first frost the important thing is to

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get them out of the ground before the ground freezes and

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I think most people will leave them just until the top stems are

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Killed down by the frost and then the best way is to take a spade or even preferably a spade fork and

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If this is your stem up right up here coming through the ground

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I want to be sure to dig far enough away so that you don't run the spade right down and cut all your tubers in half and

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a spade fork you can get down and just raise that up out of the ground the way you dig potatoes that is if you've ever

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dug potatoes and

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Be careful that you don't cut any of these tubers off

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Pardon me set them aside to dry off and clean them up get all the dirt off of them

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And here you'll notice the the original or mother tubers that was planted

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Last spring and from which all these other tubers are formed. Well now this mother tuber will not produce any more

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Flowers and should be discarded so we'll just cut that right out of there

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And you'll notice that these shears are long and narrow have long narrow blades on them

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but you can get in between here and

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Make that cut and then sort of break it out

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Well different there are different varieties of course of dahlias some will have big thick tubers like this and

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Some varieties will have a long slender type so don't be surprised if your tubers are long and slender

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It doesn't mean that they're not good if they're not big and thick like a potato

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Well, then you want to divide these in the spring and of course during the winter

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You've got to store them down in the basement some people wrap them up in newspaper

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some people put them in dry sand or this expanded mica and

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The idea well you can even use sawdust

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You want to keep them dry and keep them cool if you've got a room down the basement where the temperature will stay about

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45 well, that's just about ideal 45 to 50

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and then next spring when you get them out you want to look them over carefully and study them and

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Any of these little bits of things like that you might as well just cut those right off and

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during the wintertime

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They an eye will form right at the top of each of these tubers and when you divide them you may want to use a knife

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along with the shears and the important thing is to

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Get a part of the crown

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together with a tuber

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And an eye on it so that you've got a full tuber and then a little part of the crown and there should be an eye

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Right in there. Now if you take and cut off another one

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Well, let's just cut one off over here because this has a nice big crown and we'll just

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cut in there and

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There's a there is a perfect one

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We don't need quite so much of the crown there and you'll cut that off depending on just where the eye is

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Then you plant that just as you saw Lou West do it there when I showed you those pictures. I

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Think that'll give you some idea at least of

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how to plant your dahlias and how to take care of them now and

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Well right now here's another word of interest for you

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I'm sure you'll agree with me that

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Dahlia's are certainly one of the most beautiful flowers that they have and

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Is certainly a great deal of interest in them

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I have a copy of the publication put out by the Central States Dahlia Society

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they call it the Dahlia and

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On the back page they've devoted the entire back side of the or inside of the back cover

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To listing the some of the most beautiful flowers in the world

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Important Dahlia shows that are being held around the country

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they're just a great number of Dahlia shows being held all around this time of the year and

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If you haven't already planned to do so, why don't you stop in and see the Dahlia show?

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That's probably going to be held in your own locality

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I'm sure you'd enjoy it and you can talk to some of the Dahlia growers there and get all kinds of hints from them

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To just what they do to get some of these great big blooms if you're interested in growing some of those real big ones

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and then to why don't you join one of the Dahlia societies because well then you'll get the

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Publication that they put out and all kinds of helpful information

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Keeps you up to date on the latest developments of the new varieties

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Well, you'll get to know some of these people more intimately and know more about them

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Let me really

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Seriously urge you to

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Stop in and see the Dahlia show that's nearest you and then don't forget though to come around again for our next regular

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Get together and I'll be looking forward to seeing you

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