The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jun 2018
1:56pm, 27 Jun 2018
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Velociraptor
My sunflowers are all out in big pots and flowerbeds now, and very soggy. Slug pellets going out later once I've planted up the remaining patch in the front garden with some heuchera and pretty red annuals that jumped into my trolley at the garden centre.
Eynsham Red
Eynsham Red
Jun 2018
7:12am, 28 Jun 2018
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Eynsham Red
Mine have just started developing flower heads.
Do they tend to stop growing at this point?
bigleggy
bigleggy
Jun 2018
12:28pm, 28 Jun 2018
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Nope - they should continue to gain height until the flower head becomes so heavy it starts to droop.

Once the flower head develops any kind of size , stake it if you haven't done so already as they can become quite top heavy
Eynsham Red
Eynsham Red
Jul 2018
6:50pm, 1 Jul 2018
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Eynsham Red
The first flower has opened 🌼

Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jul 2018
8:41pm, 1 Jul 2018
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Velociraptor
Gorgeous! I do heart sunflowers!

Mine got their first dose of Tomorite yesterday.
Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
Jul 2018
12:53pm, 3 Jul 2018
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Fizz :-)
OK, it's not a sunflower.



But it's almost nine feet tall. :-)



My tallest sunflower is about six feet (gauged purely against my height)

fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
Jul 2018
12:55pm, 3 Jul 2018
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@Eynsham Red - really loved seeing the first yellow flower :-) And I get to see how my northern ones are progressing on Thursday :-)
Dvorak
Dvorak
Jul 2018
12:29am, 4 Jul 2018
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All my tall sunflowers are 90-105 cm tall. Whether they have been planted out in soil, in pots, or are still in the greenhouse in overly small trays. The ones in soil are looking a bit ragged as something is eating their leaves.
Eynsham Red
Eynsham Red
Jul 2018
7:28am, 6 Jul 2018
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I’m entrusting the care of my two sunflowers to a friend’s son who we are employing to do some watering while we’re away.
One has flowered and currently is 7ft 8in, but it’s sibling which has yet to flower has grown to 9ft 2in.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Jul 2018
8:17am, 6 Jul 2018
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Velociraptor
My sunflowers are all out in the front garden now and so far appear to be healthy and unslugged. They're up for another dose of neglect next week.

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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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