King of the Sunflowers 2023

[william-1]

Slow groth but getting there 8 x yellow 1 x red.

 

[Analoguesat]

Our champion is about 4 inches tall so far

 

[pontiend]

No! you cannot have a shortest sunflower thread.

 

[Llew]

I can't say I'm particularly impressed by mine this year. Barely 6 feet tall at the back, and fully blooming.

I have expectations for the Evening Suns at the front, but they don't normally grow particularly tall.

There's always hope for my Giant in the front garden, it usually does well there.

 

[pontiend]

The mongolian giant plants are doing well this year.They did not get above 7 foot last time.The tallest is about 9 foot.Must be better seeds this time. The one between the two tallest is a titan it was planted later but is catching up.The top of the canes is 10 foot.

 

[william-1]

Latest pictures not exspecting giants this year


3 feet seems to be the maximum for these suffering from Dwarfism

 

[atl68]

After a few weeks, I'll add a picture how the yellow beauties are doing. they are more than 8 foot tall.

 

[pontiend]

It is a bit of a surprise this year.The last time that I tried mongolian giant sunflowers the tallest got to about 7 foot.Now the canes are at 12 foot.The heads are just starting to swell.If they get much taller I will have to get the ladder out to tie them to the cane.I am not good at climbing ladders these days.

 

[william-1]

My latest only 5 feet high but quality

 

[Topper]

As I explained previously I used birdseed kernels as the mice ate my stored seed, after the slugs snacked on the young plants I have ended up with three spindly sunflowers although the tallest is more than eight feet tall. I must have planted them out too late or the soil is undernourished, never mind in the greenhouse my dwarfs are still dwarfs but have not yet flowered when they do I will post a pic

 

[Topper]

Well my dwarfs have flowered

 

[Analoguesat]

The tallest of our sunflowers is now about 2ft high!

 

[pontiend]

Out of six planted two have flowered.Three have had the heads taken by squirrels I have taken them down.The middle one of the three left may still have a head on probably not.

 

[Analoguesat]

The best of ours are now about 5 foot tall. They are not liking the extremely windy "summer" we have had up here this year - they are needing loads of extra watering as they have been drying out badly even when the soil is wet

 

[Llew]

I think too much fertilizer this year gave some of my sunflowers multiple heads. The top flower (12'3" from the ground) is just a branch of the main plant covered up at the back, which is about 9 foot.