Daheliya

The dahlia plant is known as dalia or dahlia.  It is a plant of the same species as the sunflower flower.  Its native place is Central America and Mexico.  There are more than 50000 species of Dahlia found all over the world.

 Its flower blooms in white, red, purple, and orange colors.  Dahlia flowers are not blue in colour.  It is a large flower.  When it blooms, it looks very attractive and beautiful.  Due to its many veins, most people plant this plant to enhance the beauty of their homes.

 Botanical scientist Carl Linnaeus named this plant Dahlia in memory of a Swedish tree scientist named Dahl.  The height of the dahlia plant reaches about two to three meters.  But it is of different size according to the species.  There is also a small species of this, which grows only up to a height of half a meter.

 Dahlia plants also have bulbs in their roots, from which these plants are grown.  The roots of these plants become thick due to its bulb.  Its flowers are like sunflower flowers.  The shape of the flowers of its new species is round like a ball, on which colorful flowers are found.

 All new plant species of dahlias are grown by seeds.  The bulbs in the roots of the dahlia plant are also called buds.  These buds are removed and cut into small pieces.  While cutting these buds, one thing is taken care of, that it is necessary to have one bud in each piece.

 The plant grows from that bud.  Apart from this, dahlia plant is also grown by cutting.  These plants like sandy soil the most.  If they are grown in sandy soil, then they grow very well.  It is best to plant these plants in open space.

If it gets too much winter on them, then because of this the dahlia flowers start drying up.  When its plant is completely dry, then the roots are removed from its bottom and kept.  And it comes in handy for growing plants the next year.  Kit moths also seem to these plants.  Due to which its leaves start getting spoiled.

How to Plant a Dahlia Plant

 Dahlia plant is one such plant, which can be grown in three ways.  Here we will discuss about the three methods of growing dahlia plant, in which how to grow dahlia plant from seed?  How to grow a dahlia plant from a cutting?  And how to grow a dahlia plant from a bulb?  We will know these three methods.  All these three methods work at their own time.  First of all we know, how this plant is grown from seed.  Before this we know, what is the right time to grow dahlias?

 Winter is the right time to grow dahlia plants.  You can grow this plant in the beginning of winter.  The soil temperature is 10-35°C for the plant to grow well.  should be between  It takes about 10-15 days for this plant to grow.

 how to grow dahlia plant from seed

 Step 1. To plant the dahlia plant from seeds, first you have to prepare the soil.  In which you have to mix 70% normal garden soil, 20% old manure and 10% cockpit.  Prepare all these together well.

Step 2. After preparing the soil, you have to fill it in the pot.  In whichever pot you keep growing the dahlia plant, one thing should always be kept in mind that it is very important to have a hole at the bottom of the pot.  It is very beneficial for your plant.  After filling the soil, take the dahlia seeds and keep them in the pot at a distance of two to two inches.

 Step 3. After placing the seeds in the pot, cover the cockpit layer of about one inch over it.  You do not have to make a thick layer on top of these seeds, otherwise all your seeds may get spoiled.  After this you have to water your pot.

 Step 4. For watering the pot, you should always take the help of a spray.  Water should never be poured into a pot containing seeds.  For this, you can fill your pot with water in a layer and keep it in it.  Due to this, the hole at the bottom of the pot automatically keeps water reaching the pot.

Step 5. After watering the pot, keep your pot in an open place where there is sunlight.  When there is a lack of water inside it, you can again water the pot with a layer filled with water.  These seeds start growing within ten days.

 Step 6. When the plants start growing from your seeds, they should be kept in a shady place.  When your plants are one month old, you plant them in a big pot.  For planting in a large pot, you can mix one part soil and one part old manure of cow dung and fill it in the pot and plant the plants.

How to Take Care of Dahlia Bulbs

 To save the dahlia bulb, you should take all its bulbs out of the pot.  When its plants dry up.  After this, after cleaning its soil thoroughly, keep these bulbs in a place where there is no sunlight.  If you want, you can also keep them indoors.

Until these bulbs begin to branch out from inside.  When dahlias begin to branch out from all of your bulbs, you’ll want to cut off the middle.  Leaving two leaves.  This will create many more branches inside the plant.  You can plant these branches from October to November by making a dahlia’s pen and planting it in a pot.

How to Plant a Dahlia Plant with a Pen

 Step 1. To plant a dahlia plant from a cutting, you must first water that plant.  The plant from which you are going to cut the cuttings.  About five hours after watering, you cut the cutting from that plant, this cutting is very good.  Always plant 6 or 7 cuttings.

 Step 2. Keep the size of the cutting about five inches.  On top of which there should be 5 or 6 leaves.  For planting the cuttings, you can take ordinary garden soil, cockpit and old manure of cow dung.  If you do not have a cockpit, you can plant these cuttings in a pot without a cockpit.

 They need a lot of air.  You can hang the dahlia bulb by placing it in a basket.  Due to this there will be air inside it and it will not even collide with the ground.  Because these bulbs are kept on the ground, then there is a danger of Silavi coming inside them.  So that it gets bad.

Step 3. After this, you have to make pits with any wood according to the count of cuttings already in your pot.  After pitting, apply rooting hormone powder on the bottom part of all your dahlias’s cuttings.  This allows your cuttings to grow faster.  Apart from this, this powder also protects the pen from rotting and fungus.

 Step 4. After applying rooting hormone, plant all the cuttings in a pot.  After planting the cutting, you should water it well.  After this, you keep your pot on the side of a big pot so that direct sunlight does not fall on it for a few days.

 Step 5. Keep the moisture in the pot until the roots start growing from your cutting.  After the plants grow up, all should be planted in a big pot or in the ground.

how to care for dahlia plant

 1. Always keep the dahlia plant in a fertile and friable soil so that it can grow very quickly.

 2. This plant requires very little water during winters.  Whenever the plant is watered, after a few days, the plant must be hoeed well.

 3. It is very important to give liquid fertilizer to the dahlia plant twice in a month.  In this fertilizer, you can give fertilizer made from mustard oil or banana peels.

 4. When the buds start coming on the plant, then you must put cow dung manure in its roots.  This is to put the pot around and at a distance of about two inches from the root of the plant.  You don’t have to fertilize the plant when it starts to flower.

6. Dahlia is a flowering plant in winter, this plant needs more sunlight.  You should grow the plant in such a place where there is definitely morning sunlight.  If you follow all these things, then very big dahlia flowers will come on your plant.