The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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bigleggy 2 Aug 11:37pm, 2 Aug 2024 7,541 posts	0 bigleggy Top growing Fizz
Rosehip 5 Aug 6:40pm, 5 Aug 2024 32,791 posts	0 Rosehip The tallest one now has a flowering head, surprised it has multiple heads ~2.5M (phone app won’t measure in proper units)
Rosehip 5 Aug 6:41pm, 5 Aug 2024 32,792 posts	0 Rosehip Sorry, awful pic
bigleggy 6 Aug 8:55am, 6 Aug 2024 7,542 posts	0 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
bigleggy 6 Aug 5:21pm, 6 Aug 2024 7,543 posts	0 bigleggy Biggest ones with flowers The decapitated one I'll measure the height after my hols if the kids keep em alive
Rosehip 6 Aug 6:38pm, 6 Aug 2024 32,805 posts	0 Rosehip I'll measure mine properly again when I can find the good tape measure
Velociraptor 6 Aug 10:39pm, 6 Aug 2024 70,269 posts	0 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.
Velociraptor 17 Aug 2:18pm, 17 Aug 2024 70,440 posts	0 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.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 17 Aug 3:00pm, 17 Aug 2024 43,036 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Mine didn’t survive the hot weather when we were away for a week
Rosehip 17 Aug 3:11pm, 17 Aug 2024 32,924 posts	0 Rosehip really pleased with mine, surprised they survived the wind we'vehad. The bees are enjoying them today too

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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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