Storage of dahlias.

In the first year I had -326 varieties of dahlias, with them I managed simply -tassed the tubers together with the communions of the earth on the potato Bourge in the cellar. So I once did my mother. In the middle of the last century, many grown these amazing flowers, however, the choice of varieties was limited and obtained new items worthwhide, especially foreign selection. Nevertheless, September 1, we went to school with gigantic bouquets of dahlias of all sorts of coloring. I must say, the old varieties of dahlias were very well kept, because they spread among the amateur flower products only those that could survive winter without problems. In the first year I have survived 90% of tubers, which then quite satisfied.
For the second year, the collection has expanded to 80 varieties. And then, consulting with experienced flowers, I decided to keep tubers in economic packages. Digid up the tuber and together with a room of the earth put in the package, which put in the basement, and the package remained open all winter.
I have a wooden basement, the frame of larch will be covered with boards, the ceiling is also from larch. Here the whole winter is holding a temperature of about 4 °, but very raw - if

turn off the fan, starts dripping from the ceiling. So in the second year, the tuber's outlet after storage was only 30%, most of them just rotted near the root neck.
Over the summer, I restored as a collection could and laid on the third year
Storage 120 Cornklubney. This time I decided to follow another recommendation. After the sink washed away, all the tubers from the ground was laid out, stealing from Runili, dried and lowered to the basement. At the same time, some tubers when drying a little wrinkled, apparently, badly rided. After the new year, the tubers began to be covered with mold and as a result to the spring, many were rotted, others just got drunk.

Do not think that I calmly watched my work dies. She cleaned, handled the sections with green, manganese, fell asleep with charcoal, etc. As a result, 40% of tubers came out of wintering, which I was not at all at all. And for the next season I decided to check another option. After the flock washedhed, the tubers from the Earth washed, treated with fungicides, dried, divided into plots, decomposed on plastic boxes and fell asleep dry

washed sand.
During the division pointed out the name of the grade felt-tipper directly on the tubers. By the spring, some inscriptions broke up, some tubers dried and wrinkled, and it was impossible to read something on them. Now I hang foil tags on a solid synthetic twine (paper decomposes into the repository) at the end of August, when all dahlias bloom and can be determined

matching the name of the variety.
And this method of storage did not satisfy me, lost and reached 35%. For the fourth year, I decided to return to the original version, that is, leave the tubers with a room of the earth. It turned out not bad, the waste was limited to 25%. The main cause of the death of the colors was to disagree the root neck.
Therefore, after the crawling, I just consider the land from the neck to the surface of tubers and dahlias along with a lump of land I install on the shelves in the basement (in the photo 1 - Cornefube to processing, in photo 2 - after processing). With this method, only 10-20% of tubers falls, depending on agricultural engineering and weather conditions.
Of course, I do not consider my technology for storing Georgin ideal (all different conditions), I advise you to look for your own options. In addition, the safety of tubers is highly dependent on the conditions of cultivation, and from varietal features. For example, in photo 3 shows the Cornkluben Georgina, which bloomed 2.5 months very plentifully, gave up to 30 beautiful open flowers, not counting buds. Elegant spectacle, but as a result, the normal root tuber did not work, apparently, everything went to bloom, although there are normal varieties normally and increased good root tubers. Many modern varieties are very beautiful, but they are badly stored, and with this you have to put up.
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Storage of George