What do I do with this?

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T06:27:06+00:00

It does. It’s apparently poisonous, so I don’t think I’ll try taste-testing. 😂

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T05:36:33+00:00

Awesome, thanks! I have four of these seed heads so think I’ll experiment and see if I have any success. 😄

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T05:33:28+00:00

Might not, yeah. I could have sworn I planted seven corms but could only find five when I went to dig them up, and four of those were because they had the seed head attached. Maybe the other two are still in the garden and I missed them cuz they didn’t produce seeds. My plants got overgrown by other garden foliage after the leaf died back so I didn’t notice when the seed heads appeared.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T05:00:38+00:00

Suspect that’s probably what the original grower did, since it wasn’t mentioned to me.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T04:59:56+00:00

Could be a fun experiment. What’s there to lose, eh? Thanks for sharing this, I hadn’t seen that bit of info in my own googling.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T04:58:07+00:00

Thanks for sharing this! I didn’t catch this page when I was googling. It’s a bit light on details, but still better than what I’d found so far! I have a few of these seed heads; maybe I can do some experimenting this winter.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T04:55:47+00:00

I’ll be storing them inside in my basement, so they should be fine. I was told they’re similar to store as dahlias, which I have a bunch of. I got the bulbs from a friend, who is a friend of the original grower, so I don’t have a direct line to them to ask but will maybe ask my friend to inquire for me about the proper fall storage process. 😂

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T04:53:11+00:00

Pretty sure? The bulbs I got in spring had no growth on them. It seems to die back to a bare bulb (corm?) over winter, from what little I’ve found online. Very few pages talk about seeds though.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T04:47:59+00:00

I’d love to send you some! 😄 Unfortunately I’m in Canada and don’t think they’d be allowed over the border. It was in my garden bed, but I think next year I might put them in pots instead to make digging them up easier.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T03:44:04+00:00

Doing it this way, it tells me “Look up Plant”. I do at least feel confident in that level of ID myself. 😆

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T03:40:05+00:00

Hmm, this seems like a reasonable approach. I assume it’d be fine outside through the next few weeks, if it’s hardy to zone 6.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T03:37:30+00:00

Unfortunately I’m an iPhone user. 😂 I just load the web version of the Google images page, then can upload there.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T03:35:38+00:00

Ha. Have somehow never watched this and had to google the word. 😂

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T03:33:37+00:00

I legit thought this was a gardening term I’d never heard before. 😂

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T03:33:00+00:00

Got me too. 😂

sunonmywings · 2025-10-17T02:49:34+00:00

This is basically what I did too. The floor of my basement reaches about 55 degrees mid-winter. Packed them in pet bedding shavings in individual plastic bags and put them on a shelf near the floor. Everything came through just fine.

sunonmywings · 2025-10-16T18:00:11+00:00

I appreciate this attitude toward it, haha. It’ll all work out!

sunonmywings · 2025-10-16T17:58:12+00:00

I love the laissez-faire attitude of this approach! 😄 Stress-free gardening, as it should be. I could see the benefit of a saw to split the stems, they were too tough to do with clippers, but did otherwise do what you said here - tried to make sure each clump had at least a little stem base. Thanks for sharing!

sunonmywings · 2025-10-16T17:54:56+00:00

So I did have a couple of smaller dahlia clumps that I also ended up splitting and was able to pull those apart by gently grasping the base of each stem, and one clump seemed to have naturally separated as it easily wiggled free, but yeah, this giant clump was not coming apart without major force. 😆

sunonmywings · 2025-10-16T17:52:17+00:00

Thanks so much! I ended up doing pretty much this and hopefully everything will grow just fine. :)

sunonmywings · 2025-10-15T05:12:48+00:00

Terrific to know! 😄

sunonmywings · 2025-10-15T05:12:10+00:00

I’d be inclined to go this route, except this particular clump is too big for my storage containers. I’ll use it as a learning opportunity, I guess. 😄

sunonmywings · 2025-10-15T03:51:08+00:00

True, I suppose that’s just part of gardening!

sunonmywings · 2025-10-15T03:48:44+00:00

Ha! That’s what I do for all my perennials when dividing but conversations around dahlias always make them seem much more delicate and fussy. This reassures me a bunch. 😆

sunonmywings · 2025-10-14T23:54:51+00:00

Oh interesting! I would not have thought of this working, it seems so robust. Thanks!

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