The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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Aug 2019
3:34pm, 28 Aug 2019
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bigleggy
HB has got skillz too - but Tomatoes count for nothing in this game :-)

Enjoy though , that's quite a harvest :-)
Aug 2019
4:58pm, 28 Aug 2019
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Nightjar
Perhaps we need a tomato grow off thread. Where quantity wins.
Sep 2019
11:10am, 3 Sep 2019
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bigleggy
2 days to go and I have a late contender !!! Don't think it's anywhere near the 9 footers ........but are they still standing ????

Will try and get a photo onto the site - please standby.......
Sep 2019
11:17am, 3 Sep 2019
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Dvorak
Meanwhile, i have a definite non-contender



Prize for tiniest-headed sunflower?

My prize specimen has meanwhile turned into a proper bloom B-) Somewhere below D2's, though.
Sep 2019
12:13pm, 3 Sep 2019
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bigleggy
Here we go then - not flowered yet but it's trying to :-) Come on big fella !!!!

Sep 2019
5:21pm, 3 Sep 2019
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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
Trying this for the first time - the one at the back is about 7 feet, but about to become constrained by the roof of the potting shed!
Sep 2019
5:21pm, 3 Sep 2019
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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
Oops!
Sep 2019
6:24pm, 3 Sep 2019
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Nightjar
Just noticed the rules say "biggest one wins". Biggest flower head? :-) :sunflower:
Sep 2019
6:25pm, 3 Sep 2019
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Nightjar
Disappointed that :sunflower: doesn't work!
Sep 2019
6:43pm, 3 Sep 2019
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Pothunter
It would be *sunflower* but that doesn’t work either :-)

About This Thread

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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