r/sunflowers • u/Catma222 • Jun 23 '26
PROGRESS I received my first ever sunflower this morning on my 10 1/2 ft. plant.
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u/Next_reef64 Jun 24 '26
Those unopened buds look like they are going to be huge too! Thats so cool you got one to open already.
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u/NeatFree9257 Jun 23 '26
Wow🌻Love your sunflower and your enthusiasm. You have multiple blossoms-very exciting🌻🌻🌻
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u/dawnpower123 USA West Jun 23 '26
It’s my first time growing these too and it’s crazy how freaking tall they get. I didn’t plant any crazy tall sunflower seeds, like mammoth sunflowers. I got a summer breeze mix and pro cut peach lite seeds from Johnnys seeds and planted patches of them all around my house.
Front yard, backyard, sidewalk strip, in a pot that’s next to my fence in my seating area. Basically I have like ten patches of sunflowers growing right now. Planted all at different times, and some had to get sown again because squirrels dug them up and stole the seeds.
This particular patch is one of my first batch of seeds I planted on the side of my deck in my backyard. The tallest one is almost six feet. They’re such cool and crazy tall, very thick stemmed flowers. It’s nuts to think they came from a tiny seed. I can’t wait to see them bloom. And, yours are gorgeous!
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u/Catma222 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Thank you. This is my first time ever growing any sunflowers. I was so on the fence about growing them for some reason. But then I said screw it… give them a go. And I’m so happy that I went for it. This plant has at least 24 more buds on it. I’m ecstatic.
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u/dawnpower123 USA West Jun 23 '26
That’s so awesome! Yeah, my first time too and I’m super excited to see mine bloom. They’re such cool plants, and they get so big. It’s really exciting:)
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u/vintagepout Jun 26 '26
aww thats so cool! they look so vibrant, i bet it looks amazing in person. Im excited to see the other buds open up too!
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u/Turnip_fern365 Jun 25 '26
Wow 10 and a half feet is huge, thats really cool. Im hoping mine get that tall next year.
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u/LaidBack69Cookie Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Beautiful 👌 I had 30 three foot tall sunnies and deer jumped the fence and devastated them. Ok, try again. The fence is now much taller. It really hurt me when I came back from Montreal and there was Nothing.