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The 2017 Great Bigleggy Sunflower GrowOff

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alpenrose Jun 2017 10:34pm, 21 Jun 2017 26,753 posts	0 alpenrose
Nightjar Jun 2017 11:16pm, 21 Jun 2017 4,826 posts	0 Nightjar Mine look a bit like NDW's
sallykate Jun 2017 10:26am, 22 Jun 2017 5,087 posts	0 sallykate This is my tallest - sown in a large pot with another seed, I should really have kept only one. It's 1.7m now, so it's grown 4 inches since I posted two days ago! And this one is self-sown, presumably from the one I grew last year sown directly into the ground [planted about 20 seeds and only one survived the attack of the killer molluscs]. About 1.6m, so even more growth since Tuesday. I have other tiny ones sown in what I think must have been really really bad seed compost. They're about 50cm tall! Not doing that again.
Nightjar Jun 2017 3:16pm, 29 Jun 2017 4,832 posts	0 Nightjar I have three at about 5 foot tall. The runt/fourth seems to have split and did suffer from a slug attack.
Mandymoo Jun 2017 8:15pm, 29 Jun 2017 4,979 posts	0 Mandymoo Mine are abysmal this year - i am out of comp
bigleggy Jun 2017 9:10pm, 29 Jun 2017 5,998 posts	0 bigleggy Mandymoo - sorry to hear this. But the great thing is , we'll do it again next year. You'll have learnt loads and come back and smash it next time
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Jul 2017 9:25pm, 3 Jul 2017 35,692 posts	0 Fierce and Fearless Fleecy My tallest is about 5 foot now, the other one has started flowering already. Next year I will plant them in the front garden, and start earlier. I started too late this year...
McGoohan Jul 2017 9:40pm, 3 Jul 2017 29,907 posts	0 McGoohan I've got a red one!
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Jul 2017 9:43pm, 3 Jul 2017 35,694 posts	0 Fierce and Fearless Fleecy I love the related threads below: Alton 10 Porridge Do Toenails Grow Back? The Thrilling Throwdown thread...
alpenrose Jul 2017 10:15pm, 3 Jul 2017 27,013 posts	0 alpenrose I saw a load growing next to a shed in front of Winchester Cathedral last Saturday, they must have been about 9' high. My biggest one is about 3 1/2' high. I'll get a photo of it one day.