Krauerking to Gardening@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMy Neighbor didn't grow Heritage Sunflowers but Prehistoric onesimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up195arrow-down1imageMy Neighbor didn't grow Heritage Sunflowers but Prehistoric onesKrauerking to Gardening@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-23 months 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-squareKrauerkingOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months 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-up2·3 months agoYou sure? That link mentions single large heads.
minus-squaremosiacmango@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months 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.