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The 2017 Great Bigleggy Sunflower GrowOff

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purps Jul 2017 4:10pm, 14 Jul 2017 36,194 posts	Quote Pin purps AtC that's fantastic. Well done. What's the secret?
McGoohan Jul 2017 4:22pm, 14 Jul 2017 30,056 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Triffids. Must be triffids.
Alice the Camel Jul 2017 4:59pm, 14 Jul 2017 3,264 posts	Quote Pin Alice the Camel After last year's disappointing effort, I spent a while in the garden centre studying the blurb on the back of the seed packets. Based on what I read I purchased Russian Giants. Started them off in pots in the greenhouse then planted out a few weeks ago. No special treatment apart from that - pure luck!
Sweetie Jul 2017 5:19pm, 14 Jul 2017 1,566 posts	Quote Pin Sweetie Impressive AtC! - I am going to start doping mine this weekend in an effort to catch up!
Nightjar Jul 2017 5:24pm, 14 Jul 2017 4,869 posts	Quote Pin Nightjar Nice going AtC. I'm going out to have good chat with mine. Supposed to help I understand.
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Jul 2017 7:14pm, 14 Jul 2017 35,933 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy I also have Russian Giants, but I think I planted them too late and they are still in pots. 175cm so not too bad, but yours are nearly a metre taller! I think it does help to have them in the ground, my pots are big but I'm betting they are rootbound already. Learning points for next year! Last year they all got eaten by snails, so I'm already doing better And...at the allotment there's a self-sown one which is probably nearly 6 foot already, growing away near my raspberries...
NDWDave Jul 2017 7:19pm, 14 Jul 2017 3,883 posts	Quote Pin NDWDave My sunflower is taller than me... when I'm sat down
Fierce and Fearless Fleecy Jul 2017 7:20pm, 14 Jul 2017 35,935 posts	Quote Pin Fierce and Fearless Fleecy I was wondering about your earlier photo when you said your sunflower was 3 foot tall! I figured you had a low fence and were kneeling down
McGoohan Jul 2017 7:41am, 15 Jul 2017 30,059 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan I partly blogged about em today but here's a sunflower update ripped from there: When this one flowers it’ll be our tallest: Here I am for scale: And we also have this baby one: But also this red one!
alpenrose Jul 2017 4:17pm, 15 Jul 2017 27,164 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose Back from my hols and the person who promised to pop in to water, didn't. He called round earlier to say he'd come to water and hadn't been in as it had rained so much on Tuesday. Why do people not realise that rain does not go into pots! The sunflowers are all still growing and seem to have put a few inches on - I think I might beat Dave in this event, but not Alice or purps.