The Great Bigleggy Sunflower Growoff

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bigleggy
bigleggy
Jun 2020
10:10am, 26 Jun 2020
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bigleggy
Top growing Dvorak !
Garfield
Garfield
Jun 2020
12:15pm, 26 Jun 2020
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Garfield
Wow Dvorak! Mine are midgets by comparison!
Rosehip
Rosehip
Jun 2020
12:29pm, 26 Jun 2020
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Rosehip
I got a Goji berry plant as a free gift when I bought rasperry canes a few years ago. It's a bloody nightmare! I thought I'd dug it up, but it had escaped under the fence. I cut it right down last autumn and it's now waving at me over the 6ft fence again. It has nasty sharp spikes too. It does have the occasional berry, but not worth the hassle for!

My tallest sunflower is 50 inches now.
Dr PhFleecyD
Dr PhFleecyD
Jun 2020
2:16pm, 26 Jun 2020
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Mine is about my height, the tallest one is definitely the one I repotted first! The 2 in smaller pots dry out super fast and have been attacked by snails
Cerrertonia
Cerrertonia
Jun 2020
7:26am, 27 Jun 2020
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Cerrertonia
My tallest one is a touch over 160cm. One of the self-sown ones has a fully open flower too - don't recall them flowering in June before.
Trin
Trin
Jul 2020
9:38am, 2 Jul 2020
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Trin
Disaster!

My tallest so far has flowered.
Measured from the soil it's 136cm



Maybe it's the heat and constant sun that has brought it out early? We're in the 30's most days now. I'm not feeling hopeful for the others
Dvorak
Dvorak
Jul 2020
10:49am, 2 Jul 2020
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Dvorak
Last off, first out! Plant some more, Trin, two months to go. Commiserations for your weather ;-) B-)

The earliest I have seen sunflowers in bloom was March, in Malta. Meanwhile the greenhouse was only 15°C in the middle of the day, in the supposed height of summer, here.
bigleggy
bigleggy
Jul 2020
5:42pm, 2 Jul 2020
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bigleggy
Peaked a bit early there Trin :-)

Damn that gorgeous weather !!
Trin
Trin
Jul 2020
5:55pm, 2 Jul 2020
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Trin
Maybe I should grow them in the garage 😉
Trin
Trin
Jul 2020
9:47am, 6 Jul 2020
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Trin
So it didn't grow very tall but our bees are enjoying it








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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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