I can’t say this enough but if you want to really maximize the flowers you get from your dahlias, pinch early and cut deep! It can be super tempting to want every single dahlia bud to bloom, but if you cut your stems based on that, you’ll end up with short stems. At first, you’ll get more flowers, but cutting the stems short will trigger the plant to keep sending up short stems from where you cut… so in the end you’ll end up with shorter and shorter stems. Instead, what I recommend is once your