The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Velociraptor Jul 2018 3:37pm, 21 Jul 2018 38,665 posts	0 Velociraptor Wow! Some proper impressive sunflowers I still just have one flower. Hoping to post a Vitalite advert photo by next weekend.
Dvorak Jul 2018 3:37pm, 21 Jul 2018 16,362 posts	0 Dvorak Mine are … not as big as that. The first one to bloom is above my head, but only because it is in a pot on some staging.
Eynsham Red Jul 2018 5:16pm, 21 Jul 2018 3,102 posts	0 Eynsham Red Back home after two weeks away. This one is now 10ft exactly.
Fizz :-) Jul 2018 6:06pm, 21 Jul 2018 2,869 posts	0 Fizz :-) Nice, well done
Wine Legs Jul 2018 8:51pm, 21 Jul 2018 4,433 posts	0 Wine Legs NJ!!!! How do you do that???? We only live two miles apart!!!
Nightjar Jul 2018 4:26pm, 22 Jul 2018 5,026 posts	0 Nightjar They clearly liked going on holiday:-). They don’t come close to FRs 10’ though.
Nightjar Jul 2018 5:18pm, 22 Jul 2018 5,027 posts	0 Nightjar 8’ 6” is my best measure. The smallest one has 2 flowers - does that count double? 🤣
Eynsham Red Jul 2018 8:34pm, 22 Jul 2018 3,104 posts	0 Eynsham Red .....or is the height the averaged by the number of flowers? 😀
Fizz :-) Jul 2018 9:05pm, 22 Jul 2018 2,871 posts	0 Fizz :-) My tallest one has about nine flowers, goodness knows how tall it could have got if it had concentrated a bit more!
Dillthedog57 Jul 2018 9:08am, 23 Jul 2018 2,548 posts	0 Dillthedog57 After a bit of a ding dong battle, it looks as though the Dill boy is set for victory, closely followed by the Dill girl. Me and Mrs Dill are in a battle for last place. Mog cat is very excited by it all The back up seeds, growing in the ground, are first to flower, but a few feet shorter

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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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