Krauerking@lemy.lol to Gardening@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMy Neighbor didn't grow Heritage Sunflowers but Prehistoric oneslemy.lolimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up194arrow-down1imageMy Neighbor didn't grow Heritage Sunflowers but Prehistoric oneslemy.lolKrauerking@lemy.lol to Gardening@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremosiacmangolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-21 month agoThose look like good old “mammoth” sunflowers. I tried to grow 16 sunflowers this season from different varieties, and only 6 of those survived. They all became monsters.
minus-squareKrauerking@lemy.lolOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoYeah wow. Those seem easy to have as a statement piece. I might try to ask them for some seeds since that article undersells them as a statement piece
minus-squareSchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoYou sure? That link mentions single large heads.
minus-squaremosiacmangolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoI’m growing half a dozen mammoth sunflowers that all have multi heads right now. They look exactly like OPs picture. They may be a variant, but that’s what they were called on the seed packet I used.
Those look like good old “mammoth” sunflowers. I tried to grow 16 sunflowers this season from different varieties, and only 6 of those survived. They all became monsters.
Yeah wow. Those seem easy to have as a statement piece. I might try to ask them for some seeds since that article undersells them as a statement piece
You sure? That link mentions single large heads.
I’m growing half a dozen mammoth sunflowers that all have multi heads right now. They look exactly like OPs picture.
They may be a variant, but that’s what they were called on the seed packet I used.