Cuttings will grow a small bunch of tubers- not as many as you would get from planting a tuber but enough to plant again next year if they survive. A word of caution about Camano Cloud- it's a really hard to keep dahlia- that's why Corralitos sells cuttings from pot tubers- it's about the only way you can keep it. You may get a nice bunch of pot tubers but lose them all in storage in the winter- they don't keep well at all.

Thanks PlantLady,
I will postpone Camano Cloud until I retire!
Irisgal

Don't you wish you knew WHY certain types don't keep well, or don't produce so many tubers? There is just so much mystery to these plants and a lifetime is not nearly long enough to learn all I want to.

I have blamed myself for not amending the soil enuf, etc. etc.
Then a bad year with pocket gophers did in my old reliables.
So I tried 5-gal pots. Limited success.
I'm ready once more, this time armed with wire mesh small enuf to protect from any re-visiting gopher.
Drooling over the online catalogs!! What beauties there are! My garden needs them!

Some dahlias are just better keepers than others. It's all in their genes. The late Earl Huston- he of the Huston dahlia beauties bemoaned the fact that he got a non-keeper dahlia parent mixed in some of his newer stock & they won't keep for love nor money. A lot of the Camano dahlias are this way & Dick & Susan Ambrose are the first to admit it- & always tell the public to grow pot tubers of them to keep them. Some dahlia tubers grow with those skiny little necks that dry out or break off at the drop of a hat so they don't keep worth a darn, either. Of course, it's always the ones you don't like as much that don't keep!