sunflower competition, anyone? plus a helpful chart

there sure can be, po boy.

The tallest sunflower was 8.03 m (26 ft 4 in) tall when measured in Kaarst-Voorst, Germany, on 17 August 2009 and belongs to Hans-Peter Schiffer (Germany).

dam I would turn the flower head into a chair lol

dude...i want a 20ft+ sunflower, that would be so awesome. all mine are small just taking to soil outdoors.planning on planting a lot more tho

that is bad ass!!! how cold was it when you planted?

Mohican said:

OK - I am in. I have an advantage - she is 3 months old! She is next to a six foot wall to give you some perspective. The stem (trunk) is as big around as a coke can:

Cheers,
Mo

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mine are getting there.

that is bad ass!!! how cold was it when you planted?

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She was not really planted. She is offspring from a sunflower grow three years ago. I did some tilling for some other plants and a couple days later she popped up. We had a very warm winter here this year.


I had another one pop up at Christmas - the weather was in the 80's! I will try and find a pic.


Cheers,
Mo

Found one! The date on this pic was around end of March:








It is about 5 feet over from where the big girl is now. I made some tea from Kellogs Veggie Organic fert. It said to mix the solids in as a topfeed. Looked and smelled like baby shit. I dumped it on the sunflower when she was a couple feet tall. I don't know if that is why she is so big or if it is just DNA. The garden we had out there three years ago had several different varieties.





Cheers,
Mo

i have to confess to being somewhat of a plant snob. i love sunflowers in the late season. but there's something weedy in it's genes. all those leaves and a small flower in comparison. i've only enloyed them in other ppls gardens. never grown em. i love the seed head. it's a feast for the critters when it goes to seed. but it's a hard plant to mix with other plants in a garden design. it seems to want all the attention. i'm happy some ppl love them cuz if it were up to me the plant would never get planted. props for all the beautiful pix....of those sun weeds.

Something ate the tops off every last one of my sunflowers. I had probably close to a hundred of them almost knee high and out of nowhere they are half the size. I'm thinking deer because they were almost too tall for a rabbit to get the tops. I'm not very happy about it.

Squirrels go after mine. I had to put a net up to stop them from eating the flower!





They ate so much off of the Christmas plant that it grew more flowers!

There were no flowers yet. Some are recovering some are screwed .

I have 2 mature pecan trees. They produce hundreds of pecans each year. I've never gotten a chance to eat one because the squirrels eat every last one of them. My peaches too. This year they left me one peach....it was getting bigger than ever, but they found it yesterday. Oh well, at least they are neat to watch. Smart as hell those squirrels.

one of my sunflowers split into two tops. very unusual for a mammoth grey stripe.

My tallest sunflower is now above 6 feet tall!

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Cheers,
Mo

My tallest one just passed the 6' mark as well. How do we judge? a picture with measuring tape or are we on the honor system? Cuz if we're on the honor system mine are 15' tall right now.

Tell me what this looks like to you - or am I just stoned hehe




Cheers,
Mobama

Holy crap it looks like a blonde haired profile looking over it's shoulder....maybe

Passed the 6' mark

Holy crap it looks like a blonde haired profile looking over it's shoulder....maybe

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Yup! That is exacly what I saw!