The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
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6:54pm, 3 Sep 2019
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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
It worked on my picture caption 🌻
bigleggy
bigleggy
Sep 2019
1:09pm, 5 Sep 2019
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Measurement Day today - get your tape measures out and post how you got on.

Height of Sunflower - deffo
Width of flowerhead if it's impressive :-)
jda
jda
Sep 2019
1:17pm, 5 Sep 2019
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As an occasional lurker on this thread, the short growing season in my garden, combined with voracious snails and poor soil means my sunflowers don't amount to much but I thought some might be amused that I actually managed to grow this year's effort shorter than the adjacent thistle :-)

bigleggy
bigleggy
Sep 2019
8:01pm, 5 Sep 2019
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So, I'll be first to declare shall I

7 ft 2 inches

Beat that !!! (you can't - Rule 6 says so :-) )
Dvorak
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Sep 2019
8:12pm, 5 Sep 2019
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The final pic. 7' 10", flowerhead about 7.5"

Not as tall as bigleggy's obviously ;-)
bigleggy
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Top work Dvorak, well done :-)
purps
purps
Sep 2019
9:10pm, 5 Sep 2019
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purps
I forgot to look at the camera
♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
Sep 2019
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Wow, purps! Is that all one plant?
Nightjar
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Sep 2019
9:42pm, 5 Sep 2019
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That has to be a weird trick of perspective 😀
Trin
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😲😲

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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