Steps to plant and care for dahlias

 Steps to plant and care for dahlias

Steps to plant and care for dahlias-Dahlia flowers are of so many ornamental plants that have the most beautiful variety of colors. In addition to being beautiful and beautiful, dahlias are easy to include, this is also what makes dahlias more and more loved, especially for ornamental plant lovers. A popular type of ornamental flower plant.

Benefits of Dahlia Flowers.

In addition to its beauty, the dahlia flower plant has several good benefits. White cacti of dahlias are often traded intending to being assembled as funeral flowers. Then other types of dahlias, both large dahlias or small dahlias, are traded in the form of poly bag packages which are intended as outdoor plants.

In addition, the dahlia flower plant is a type of tuber plant where there is almost 70 percent of starch in the form of insulin in the dahlia flower tuber. The pure insulin content in the dahlia tuber is used as an ingredient for treatment.

If insulin is fermented by enzymes present in the soil, it is converted into fructose, which is frequently used as an ingredient in syrups or as a food preservative. This is the reason the use of insulin from dahlia tubers must be carried out through the biotransformation of fructose sugar.

Terms of Growing Dahlia Flower Plants.

There are many types of dahlia flowers such as the type variables, Juarez, pinnate, to the cocaine type.

Dahlia flower plants can grow and produce flowers well if placed at an altitude between 700-1000 MTR. From sea level. The type of soil that is good for dahlia flowers is a sandy loam type with a high humus content.

And the level of soil acidity is suitable for dahlia flower plants with a soil pH of around 6.0-8.0. In addition, dahlia plants must get enough sunlight to get maximum change.

How to Grow Dahlia Flowers.

In planting dahlias, there are several steps that are important to do, as follows.

Nursery.

To get dahlia flower seeds can be made with the following.

Sexual multiplication by seed.

• Generative multiplication with seeds is done by taking seeds from healthy dahlia plants and has a minimum age of 5 months.
• Prepare a place for sowing and the seeds are sown on the surface. Where the seedlings are made and just equalized in size.
• The next seedling area contains a combined planting area such as manure and humus.
• After the seeds are sown evenly, the next seedling place is covered again with a thin layer of soil.
• If during the dry season, the seedling place should be covered with sacks or banana leaves that have been cleaned until clean so that the humidity of the seedling place is always maintained.
• If it is in the rainy season, the place for the seedling should be made of shade from open plastic and will be released again when the seeds begin to germinate.
• Seeds in the nursery will eventually grow large and after having about 5-6 leaves, the seeds are transferred to poly bags that have a larger size of 30×20 cm which already contains the same planting area.
• The purpose of generative reproduction with seeds is that the color of the new dahlia flowers is definitely more diverse.

Vegetative propagation by cuttings.

• Vegetative propagation by cuttings is carried out in a direction so that the color and shape of the dahlia flowers obtained can be uniform.
• The material for making cuttings is taken from axillary shoots that have reached 10 cm. Use a sharp knife to cut the shoots, the knife used must be clean so that the cuttings are free from disease.
• Use an open poly bag of 30 × 20 size for the nursery, and a poly bag containing a planting area that has been combined, one of which is burnt husk and manure with a difference of 6:1, so it remains to be treated for three days and not transplanted.

Vegetative reproduction with sweet potatoes.

• Vegetative propagation with sweet potatoes was carried out on dahlia plants that were seven months old by taking the sweet potato side.
• The way to take it is to cut the side of the stem of the dahlia plant that has finished shedding approximately 10 cm from the base.
• Next, stir the soil first and remove the sweet potato and the main stalk. Vegetative propagation with this sweet potato is carried out on cactus dahlias and on semi-cactus dahlias.

Care during seeding.

Plants at sowing.

When the plant is still in the nursery process, it is enough to water one maybe a day. If there are weeds or weeds, they must be removed with care so that the plants are not damaged. The plants do not need to be fertilized first because they have received adequate nutrition from the seedling medium.

When the Plant is in a Poly bag.

When the plants have been 

transferred to poly bags, watering is carried out in the afternoon and morning, but if it is raining watering is not necessary. Remove the weeds carefully when they grow so that the plants are not damaged. Every two weeks, do spraying with anthracite or Basin to prevent the plants from growing. Attacked by diseases and pests. Give additional nutrition in the form of foliar fertilizer, namely gandasil and NPK fertilizer, of about 1 gram every 1 week.

Planting Media Processing.

• Planting in poly bags, be it mini dahlias or large dahlias.
• Mix the planting area, namely manure and husk, until evenly distributed.
• Fill the poly bag with the planting place just now until it is almost full.
• Next, make a small hole in the middle for planting and put 1 gram of NPK fertilizer in the hole.
• Next, the seeds in small poly bags are placed in the planting hole and compacted around the edges and watered until they become moist.
• Every 14 days, about 1gr of NPK fertilizer is given.
• If there are signs of disease, immediately spray pesticides in the form of anthracol or basudin.

To get optimal dahlia flower results, cut the leaves. Meanwhile, to get a more optimal dahlia flower size, thin the flowers.

The interest thinning is as follows,

• In a mini dahlia plant, for each lateral apex there must be six flowers that count up to the 3rd side book.
• While in large dahlias, each special or lateral apex must consist of 3 flowers.

Room Creation.

Make several booths with a width of about 70 cm with a height of about 15 cm, the distance between the chambers is given a distance of about 50 cm with the length of the chamber equal to the area of ​​the place where the dahlia flowers will be planted.

Then the soil is crushed or plowed with a hoe and given manure with a thickness of about 15 cm then pulverized it again with a hoe so that the manure can be mixed more evenly and the cubicles can be cleaned up again.

Dahlia Flower Planting Guide.

Create a Planting Hole.

1. Initially, first make a planting hole that has a size of 20×20x20 and the distance for each planting hole is about 70 cm.
2. Place the dahlia yam in the planting hole just now with the status recorded, then cover it again using soil with a thickness of 5 flush and cm.
3. Furthermore, if the sweet potato starts to sprout, then only 2 shoots will be left to live.

Dahlia Flower Plant Care.

To get more optimal Dahlia flower results, care must be carried out carefully. Here are many things that need to be done in the care of dahlia flower plants.

Spacing and Embroidery.

Thinning and replanting are carried out so that the development of the dahlia flower can be uniform, and this activity must be carried out for the next 21 days. If the weather conditions are hot and watering is slow, the seeds will not grow properly.

If there is many flowers on one stem, then thinning activities must be carried out on the flowers so that the diameter of the dahlia flowers can be maximized. For white cactus dahlia plants, the number of flowers left to live on each stalk must be one and for semi-cactus dahlia plants, it can be reach 5 to 6 flowers that need to be left alive.

Weeding.

Weeding activities can be carried out if there are weeds growing, but this activity should be carried out at the time as fertilization and piling activities are carried out. To restrain the development of weeds, organic mulch should be spread between plants or in each. If the plants are about 1 meter high, because of that, plants can be planted and attach some supports so that the plants don't fall down easily.

Fertilization.

This activity can be carried out if the age of the dahlia flower has reached 10 days since it was planted. The type of fertilizer given is in the form of 2 grams of urea, 2 grams of KCL fertilizer, 2 grams of SP36 fertilizer or 5 grams of NPK fertilizer. The base of the plant stalk in a distance of about 15 cm, then cover the fertilizer again with soil.

Sprinkling.

When the dahlia plant is still new, watering activity must be considered. At the base of the plant, try not to dry. Do watering in the afternoon and morning. If the plant is large enough, then watering is the same, so the soil should not dry out. Watering activities must be carried out after it is done. Fertilization.

Pests And Diseases.

Regarding planting, Pests and Diseases are often the biggest opponents for those who do the planting. There are so many types of pests or diseases that frequently attack plants, especially dahlia flower plants, at this time. Here are some kinds of pests and diseases that frequently attack dahlia flower plants. And the control steps.

Pest.

Earthworms, These pests, usually attack the sweet potato to the side of the dahlia plant stem. The earthworm destroys the plant by cutting the base of the plant, causing the plant to fall and wither.

Arrangement,

• do weeding activities that are balanced with hoarding so that the earthworms can die.
• Give it at the base of the plant and periodically spray Hostathion or Indofuran 3G insecticide.

Disease

Powdery mildew, this disease is caused by the fungus odium titanium sphaetotheca muscular. Symptoms when the plant is affected by this disease is that the leaves will be coated like white flour until the leaves become dry and the longer the leaves will fall off.

This disease typically attacks when the season changes from the rainy season to the dry or hot season.

Arrangement,

• Apply the recommended amount of rubigan 120 EC or benlate fungicide spray.

Virus.

There are several viruses that can destroy dahlia plants such as CMV, DMV, TSWV, and TSV viruses.

Arrangement,

• Eradicating directly affected plants by spraying insecticides, burying seeds in hot water, controlling or stopping special trigger factors, namely insect vectors such as thrips, aphids.
• The best way to eliminate the virus is to use seeds that are sourced from tissue culture.

Harvest of Dahlia Flower Plants.

1. Dahlia flower plants can be harvested on sweet potatoes and dahlia flowers. Here are some characteristics of dahlia plants that are ready to be harvested,
2. In the flower section can be taken 2x in a week after the plant is three months old from being planted, Dahlia flowers can be taken for the next four months.
3. Discard to be taken must have fully bloomed or have a diameter of 10 cm.
4. The sweet potato will be ready to be harvested when the dahlia flower plant has reached the age of seven months after planting.

Picking Steps.

1. At the disposal of the cactus, dahlias are taken by cutting the flower stems about 20 cm from the base of the flowers. Meanwhile, the semi-cactus dahlias are taken by cutting the flower stems about 50 cm from the base of the flowers.
2. In the sweet potato section, the plant is left to stand for a few days so that the remaining nutrients in the stem can be absorbed by the sweet potato.
3. First, cut the special stem of the dahlia plant by leaving about 10 cm from the base, then stir the soil first and the sweet potato is ready to be taken from the ground and with the main stalk.

Thus a brief explanation regarding how to plant and care for dahlias. Hopefully it can be useful and good luck.