Today there are many storage techniques dahlia in the winter. All of them normally work if to consider the standard temperature and the minimum humidity. Otherwise there will be wrinkling and death of tubers. That tubers were not overdried, there are special containers for storage dahlia.
For storages tubers dahlia many use plastic bags with vermiculite. Preference is given to vermiculite of large fraction. However such way has the shortcomings: vermiculite has property of deduction of moisture, at small excess of temperature, tubers can begin to sprout.
Many gardeners store dahlias in sand. For this purpose they use the 20th liter tanks. Storage of tubers takes place remarkably, but sprouts can appear earlier, than in case of storage in rough vermiculite. Sand is much heavier than vermiculite.
Perlite perfectly approaches to store dahlias in winter time. But also it has the shortcoming. It cannot absorb excess of moisture from tubers, besides its dust interferes with normal "breath". Extremely are not recommended to use moss for storage dahlia. It has property of deduction of moisture that strongly influences tubers. When using damp Mocha occurs rotting of planting stock. It is possible to store dahlias by means of such reliable method as waxing of tubers. Its sense consists in immersion of tubers in the melted paraffin. The delyonka processed in such a way dahlia wake up later. It is necessary to notice that there are grades dahlia which slowly and late waken. For them such method will be adverse. Well transfer waxing of grade dahlia which sprout by December.