The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Sharkie
Sharkie
Sep 2021
12:30pm, 4 Sep 2021
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Sharkie
Yeah, thanks Big L!

I take no credit for the Sharkie-by-the-Sea sunflowers. Raffo is the gardener here. All I did was help measure them and suggest putting a rope round them when we had coastal gales.

Raffo said he just chose multiheaded because he wanted lots of flowers. You'd vaguely expect multi headed plants to be shorter but perhaps they have stronger stalks to support more flowers? Anyway we 'are' a bit impressed with their height!
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Sep 2021
12:36pm, 4 Sep 2021
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My dad had some cracking multi-headed sunflowers this year. I don't know how tall they got because he'd already cut off the tallest flowers when I saw them to encourage the flowers lower down to develop, but the decapitated stalks were around 9ft.

(I shall be more organised and have a proper go at these next year.)
Dochart
Dochart
Sep 2021
12:45pm, 4 Sep 2021
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Dochart
hmmm.. bigger pot next year, maybe?

Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
Sep 2021
9:52pm, 4 Sep 2021
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Fizz :-)
Nearly forgot to post the photos :-0 but as I’m declaring at nine feet it doesn’t really matter :-)


Dvorak
Dvorak
Sep 2021
11:35pm, 4 Sep 2021
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They are very fine nonetheless Fizz:-) :-)

I've not bothered measuring exactly - sevenish. As ever, highly deficient on leaves compared to everyone else's. I may win latest flowering, though.
Sushi.
Sushi.
Sep 2021
12:16am, 5 Sep 2021
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Sushi.
Oooh #6 I think that means I win as 'leggy grew my sunflower and I supply him with flapjack so he'll declare me the winner just so I post him some more 🤣😇😁

(Am I right legster?)
bigleggy
bigleggy
Sep 2021
2:33pm, 6 Sep 2021
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indeed :-) except Rule 6 makes me the winner ;-)

Top growing Fizz, not sure which I'm more impressed with, the sunflowers or the fact you have your step ladder propped up against them ;-)
Dvorak
Dvorak
Sep 2021
3:05pm, 6 Sep 2021
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Dvorak
I think she has a third leg sticking out the back ;-). Fruit picker's ladder.
Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
Sep 2021
3:15pm, 6 Sep 2021
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Fizz :-)
No, just super strong sunflowers :-)

(The fruit trees aren’t in the picture)
Sharkie
Sharkie
Sep 2021
3:33pm, 6 Sep 2021
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Sharkie
I think we have the same ladder Fizz, as in an identical one - see my pics earlier.

About This Thread

Maintained by bigleggy
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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