The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Fierce and Focused Fleecy Sep 2018 6:41pm, 14 Sep 2018 42,980 posts	0 Fierce and Focused Fleecy I just gave my neighbour a bunch They might not have been tall but the multi stem ones are very pretty
Wine Legs Sep 2018 8:54pm, 14 Sep 2018 4,511 posts	0 Wine Legs My tallest maybe got to 8 foot, at a stretch...
Eynsham Red Sep 2018 10:19am, 15 Sep 2018 3,242 posts	0 Eynsham Red This one is a bit of a late starter! It self seeded, probably from a seed in the bird feeder above 🙂
Dillthedog57 Sep 2018 10:43am, 15 Sep 2018 2,591 posts	0 Dillthedog57 Ours are really bedraggled now, the Dill girl won with 8’3 but Mrs Dill has launched an appeal because hers has a droopy head, and if stretched out, would have been a winner
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Sep 2018 11:44am, 15 Sep 2018 27,163 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Sep 2018 11:45am, 15 Sep 2018 27,164 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Fence is 6' sunflower is in the ground not potted, if it wasn't for the curved spine it would have been taller.
sallykate Sep 2018 12:09pm, 17 Sep 2018 5,589 posts	0 sallykate My tallest got to nearly eight feet - but it deserves an award for perseverance! Flowerhead got nibbled off before it had reached full height so it carried on regardless from a side stalk which had sprouted from a leaf joint. That also got damaged (squirrels I suspect) but another stem from a leaf joint on that one took over. And it's still flowering.
Wriggling Snake Oct 2018 9:33am, 18 Oct 2018 19,740 posts	0 Wriggling Snake First cold morning. The sunflower seeds from GrowOff 2018 are going down well with the birds in the garden.
Wriggling Snake Oct 2018 9:39am, 18 Oct 2018 19,741 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Very good, a couple of minutes and I see, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Robin, Wren and House Sparrows.
Wriggling Snake Feb 2019 4:05pm, 22 Feb 2019 21,478 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Soon be warm enough

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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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