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The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Wine Legs Jul 2020 10:00am, 17 Jul 2020 5,376 posts	0 Wine Legs My tallest...
Dvorak Jul 2020 10:40am, 17 Jul 2020 20,225 posts	0 Dvorak Very good. Much bigger head than mine. Some flowering in greenhouse, biggest is outside, not yet flowering. One planted outside fairly early has flowered at under four feet.
Rosehip Jul 2020 10:06pm, 17 Jul 2020 17,051 posts	0 Rosehip I've come home from a week away to find that most of mine have started flowering, Tallest is 6ft 6
Mandymoo Jul 2020 7:55am, 18 Jul 2020 9,939 posts	0 Mandymoo No flowers in mine yet plus they are not that big anyway - all about 5ft or just over
Garfield Jul 2020 10:12am, 18 Jul 2020 13,363 posts	0 Garfield Very nice RH! One of mine is starting to form a flower, but not very tall. I'll use new seeds next year...these were 'recycled' self-seeders.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Jul 2020 2:53pm, 18 Jul 2020 30,320 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Mine are pitifully short and tiny flower heads.
Fizz :-) Jul 2020 3:37pm, 18 Jul 2020 4,021 posts	0 Fizz :-) I have one that’s over six foot, I think. And my guerillas are coming along nicely on the bunding, although not getting particularly tall.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Jul 2020 9:05pm, 18 Jul 2020 30,323 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) I saw some huge sunflowers in a garden while out running, the homeowner was in his garden so I stopped to ask his secret, he told me he had tried various different seeds but never any success in height and size so decided to pop a few seeds he had bought for bird feeding with far more success!
Rosehip Jul 2020 9:13pm, 18 Jul 2020 17,061 posts	0 Rosehip I have self-sown bird seed sunflowers all over the place, but none are as strong as the one I sowed and have been feeding seaweed extract to.
sallykate Jul 2020 10:12pm, 18 Jul 2020 6,767 posts	0 sallykate Much sunflower envy: hardly any of mine germinated, and then they were eaten. Love the pics!

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OK - this years Competition.

The Roolz

1. Begins when you can
2. Ends September 4th
3. Biggest one wins

4. Disasters are to be posted so we can all laugh/commiserate/laugh at them

5. All forms of growing aids are allowed. There's no drug testing in this competition so if you find the Lance Armstrong of Sunflowers - grow it and win !

6. Bigleggy always wins ;-)

7. As the national flower of Ukraine is the Sunflower, the Russian Giant variety is banned.

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