How To Divide Dahlias / Dividing Tubers And Potting Up

Today I will show you how to divide dahlias and how to pot them up successfully to give them a head start. I take you through three different clumps of tubers and explain the various parts of the tuber and how and why I am dividing them, showing close up footage of each process.

Video chapters:
0:00:00 Introduction
0:31:13 When to divide dahlia tubers
1:36:17 Identifying parts of a dahlia tuber
2:44:20 The importance of the ‘eye’
3:24:09 Tools
4:03:20 How to identify the ‘eye’
6:27:16 Restricting dahlias to 5 shoots
7:38:11 Dividing Dahlia Cornel Brons
17:38:22 Dividing Dahlia Acapulco
23:33:10 Dividing Dahlia Mingus Alex
30:48:00 How to pot-up dahlia tubers
32:57:08 How to care for your dahlias
35:03:04 Sprouted dahlias
36:07:06 Bloopers

I hope this has been useful and interesting but do let me know if you have any questions.

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