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eileen552eileen552 Posts: 1
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Hi my sunbelivable plants flower right up to november northeast uk, will they come again next year or what can I do  eileen
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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,581
    Here’s the answer you don’t want to hear

    https://gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/47614/take-cuttings-from-sunbelievable-plants


    Buy them again next year.
    Rutland, England
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 705
    Received three Sunbelievable plugs today 



    ...and potted them



    My question is, how bug do they normally get? What size of permanent pot would they require? No place to plant them out unfortunately. 
    Surrey
  • FireFire Posts: 18,146
    It's pretty easy to take cuttings from some 'annuals', like petunias or diascias. Or keep them going in a greenhouse over winter. A lot of plants are treated as annuals in the Uk that would be more perennial in their native country.
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 705
    Mines have already been propagated @Fire 😆 but thanks anyway 
    Surrey
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,507
    edited April 2021
    Didn't you get plant info on the sellers websites 
    One website says one to a 8 inch pot or 3 to a 15 inch
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    They are fine sized healthy plugs you received......
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 705
    Mary370 said:
    They are fine sized healthy plugs you received......
    They are indeed, happy with my purchase ☺️ 
    Hope to keep them alive to get the promised “hundreds of flowers” per plant 😅
    Surrey
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 705
    This is what the plug plants shown previously look like now



    Interestingly two of the plants have flowers with the brown circle in the middle, and one is completely yellow. 

    They were advertised as producing up to a hundred flowers per plant in one season but I don’t think these will be that prolific. 
    Surrey
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 705
    Just did the first dead heading and counted 135 finished flowers between 3 plants. And they are still in full flower. 



    And they smell like real sunflowers too 
    Surrey
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 705
    Deadheaded 35 dry flowers today, still covered with flower buds. 29 aug. 
    Surrey
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