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bazabaza Posts: 670
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Hello Everyone

Anyone growing Sunflowers as i'm wondering when they start to flower mine are getting really tall and the flower buds are starting to form but look like they are still a few weeks away.

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 Anybody got some flowering be interested to see peoples photo's on here.

Thanks

Baz

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  • Jason millyJason milly Posts: 546

    Mine are like yours about 5 feet  . my standard sunflowers have done well but my Kong's have only got to 3 feet strange ? 

  • FrannerzFrannerz Posts: 72
    Hee hee. I swear every time I turn my back my sunflowers gain an inch or 2. It's kinda unbelievable how fast they grow.
  • Pink lilyPink lily Posts: 175

    I have 3 that the birds or squirrels must have planted as I didn't do any this year.  One is 4 inches tall and seems to have stopped growing, one is only about a foot tall but is having a bit of a growth spurt this week.  the 3rd one is about 3 foot tall, growing well and has a bit of a head forming now.  At this rate, i will probably be able to get back to you with a pic in about a month 

  • yarrow2yarrow2 Posts: 782
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    My first real effort with sunflowers but a halfhearted one.  Sowed 'Tall Lemon'.  They are too close together but perhaps stupidly I thought I would see if they grew in this rather poor soil and pull out the weaklings to allow one of two to keep growing if they seemed to look worthy.  However, they are pretty spindly looking on the whole but maybe they start off and this way and then thicken up as in others photos on the site.    I did sow them late.  The soil had some manure in it and I've only watered them  - not fed.  They ARE skinny looking - perhaps lack of feeding?  I'm not bothered if they come to nothing really, but as they are there it would be nice to get at least one to flower.

     

  • ladygardener2ladygardener2 Posts: 371

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     I took this pic today as this one is just starting to flower. 3 others have flowered as well but I'd given them away. Most of my others are weeks from flowering and although I sowed all different types, I did'nt label them. Yarrow 2 yours should be fine, I'd leave them be. They'll come on but maybe just a bit later.

  • bazabaza Posts: 670

    They all look good i thought mine were lagging but they look like everyboby else's apart from ladygardener2, looking good may i add.

    And your right frannerz you turn your back and they grow another inch he he

    Thanks

    Baz

  • BoaterBoater Posts: 241

    No photos, I have dwarf Pacino Cola, I sowed 2 each in 4 big pots (in retrospect should have done 1 per pot), strangely some pots are doing better than others.

    Several of them developed brown leaves which then went holey (not sure if due to disease or pest) but all have passed this now and have greenery again.

    In one pot both have good fat stems and are starting to branch out with several heads forming but no sign of flowers. In another pot they are similar but a little smaller. Third pot they are much thinner and a bit poorly looking although some new shoots are forming and one looks about to flower. In the final pot both plants are pretty spindly and lost a lot of leaves early on, there is fresh growth but the leaves are small, one is starting to flower, the other has been out for a couple of days now (I haven't seen it fully out because I haven't been home in full daytime yet). Even the smallest plants are starting to branch now, but only one or 2 branches and very small looking.

    When I got home tonight it was quite windy and all have out grown the flower sticks I was using for extra support - the spindly ones were getting really blow about so I swapped all the sticks for canes to stabilze them. I also moved a coupe of pots to a more sheltered location.

    It seems to me that the more stressed plants are flowering for survival, and the unstressed ones are happy to carry on bulking out a bit for now. I'm hoping that when the healthiest ones get round to flowering they will have several nice flower heads, it certainly looks like they are gearing up for that!

  • bazabaza Posts: 670

    Hello Everyone a quick update on my sunflowers

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     This one has grown another 3in since this photo was taken.

    Thanks

    Baz

  • FrannerzFrannerz Posts: 72
    Looking good Baza.

    My 'Russian Giants' just keep going up, no sign of heads forming yet. If I remember right, first time I grew these they didn't flower until mid to late September.

    When I get on my laptop later I will put up some pictures.

    And I'll get the tape Measure out too.
  • bazabaza Posts: 670

    Hello Frannerz

    This is my biggest one its nearly 7ft now and the head is so close

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     A few days and it'll be open

    Thanks

    Baz

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