The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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2 Aug
11:37pm, 2 Aug 2024
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bigleggy
Top growing Fizz :-)
5 Aug
6:40pm, 5 Aug 2024
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Rosehip
The tallest one now has a flowering head, surprised it has multiple heads

~2.5M (phone app won’t measure in proper units)
5 Aug
6:41pm, 5 Aug 2024
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Rosehip
Sorry, awful pic
6 Aug
8:55am, 6 Aug 2024
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bigleggy
Top growing Rosehip - Mine have started flowering. I'll try and post a pic later.

My tallest one was in a pot and got blown over. It decapitated itself on the way down :-/

Fumin :-)
6 Aug
5:21pm, 6 Aug 2024
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bigleggy
Biggest ones with flowers



The decapitated one



I'll measure the height after my hols if the kids keep em alive
6 Aug
6:38pm, 6 Aug 2024
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Rosehip
I'll measure mine properly again when I can find the good tape measure :)
6 Aug
10:39pm, 6 Aug 2024
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Velociraptor
Those are impressive :)

I'll measure mine if they're flowering and not horizontal when I get home. I know the best of them are over 4ft because they're tied to the 4ft railings.
17 Aug
2:18pm, 17 Aug 2024
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Velociraptor
I have a tallish flowering sunflower to declare! Just the one so far.

It's not quite 6ft tall (top of 4ft railings shown for scale).

Some of the wee ones look as if they're not far off flowering.
17 Aug
3:00pm, 17 Aug 2024
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Mine didn’t survive the hot weather when we were away for a week :-(
17 Aug
3:11pm, 17 Aug 2024
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Rosehip
really pleased with mine, surprised they survived the wind we'vehad.
The bees are enjoying them today too :)


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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