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The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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bigleggy
bigleggy
Jul 2018
10:51am, 23 Jul 2018
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Got my first flower at the weekend. Quite a small head compared to previous years. Hoping some of the other plants grow bigger flowers eventually. Still giving them Tomato feed once a week so live in hope :-)

Top growing everyone :-)
sallykate
sallykate
Jul 2018
11:09am, 23 Jul 2018
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Must get some photos and measuring done! My best one which lost its head a few weeks ago has sprouted extra heads and is probably about 6 feet tall. Very impressed by some of the monsters here!
fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
Jul 2018
11:22am, 23 Jul 2018
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8ft2 yesterday, and I’ve just given them their steroids:-)
Elsie Too
Elsie Too
Jul 2018
12:27pm, 23 Jul 2018
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Mine are such a disappointment there is no point measuring. One is dead through lack of water, even though i’v Watered them all equally, it is near a tree and probably gets more sun than the others, I shan’t plant in that location next year.
The others that are still alive are about 4 ft tall.
Wine Legs
Wine Legs
Jul 2018
3:09pm, 23 Jul 2018
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I don't have any flowers yet, but heads are forming. My biggest is fence height, so about 6 foot / 180cm. I'm still holding out hope. A bit annoyed that my ones that are meant to be monsters were all out of date and so they all started late. We're trying feeding them, but it might be too little too late. Everyone else's look amazing!
bigleggy
bigleggy
Jul 2018
3:19pm, 23 Jul 2018
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WineLegs - 6 foot and growing is good. You've got plenty of the summer left to grow a monster :-) Feed em !
Dvorak
Dvorak
Jul 2018
4:24pm, 23 Jul 2018
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Hang on Fetch, I thought you wrote somewhere back that yours weren't coming to much? I might believe you about the steroids.

Mine all look like topping out about four-footish, with small flowerheads (one so far). Bigger pots might have helped, although the two in the ground are not any taller nor stronger. Compared to all the ones pictured, mine have hardly any leaves.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jul 2018
4:36pm, 23 Jul 2018
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He's a dark horse isn't he...
fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
Jul 2018
5:02pm, 23 Jul 2018
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I don’t remember saying anything of the sort :-)
Garfield
Garfield
Jul 2018
5:24pm, 23 Jul 2018
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One of mine is about a metre tall, the other is a metre long but travelling sideways!! It got off to a weird start...not well, then came back growing but not up!

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OK - this years Competition.

The Roolz

1. Begins when you can
2. Ends when your sunflower start to fade
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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