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My sunflowers grew to over 9tf tall and one had a flower that mesures approx 12 inches across and weighs over 5lb i am saving the seeds

mine have made it to about 6 foot, but they are red ones, which don't grow as tall, but i'm very happy they grew at all

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You know, we have never grown Sunflowers so tall, maybe it's the soil, however, some years we do get a profusion of sunflowers, virtually free, as we feed the birds, and they just chuck the seeds out of the feeder until they find something that takes their fancy.

Mine (grown from birdseed) only reached about 4ft. They look rather sorry for themselves now. However, not as sad looking as the fields and fields of blackened sunflowers we saw in Italy recently. I'm guessing they were also grown for their seeds.

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If you have a few spare seeds I'd be VERY interested

coreopsis pm me with your address as I still have some though while I was away some of the sunflowers went mouldy gutted cos they were in doors in the dry. got lots off my biggest one though.

when do the seeds appear?? i've left the flowers, all the petals have fallen off, but no sign of any seeds yet just a brown crispy patch in the middle.

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Lynda,maybe birds took care of the seeds already?

nope, we don't get birds in our front garden for some reason, i've been watching for them developing, the petals have only just dropped, and there are still some buds, the red ones have multiple heads.

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The seeds should be behind the crispy bit sort of underneath in the centre not all of mine have seeds just sort of mush.

so if i rub off the crispy bits the seeds should be there? cool, i'll go look in a bit

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