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Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: egbert on June 24, 2010, 05:44:48 pm

Title: Sunflowers
Post by: egbert on June 24, 2010, 05:44:48 pm
I am asking this one for a friend - I havent seen it myself yet but she has a sunflower which was growing nicely, got a bit of a flower head on it, which seems to have been demolished by ants and bugs. However she says it looks like a few more heads are growing on it now.

Is this right, could sunflowers have more than one head? If she removed the eaten head, do you think a new one would sprout?
Title: Re: Sunflowers
Post by: doganjo on June 24, 2010, 05:57:02 pm
Yes, I had loads of sunflowers last year and many of them were multi headed.  Perhaps it depends on the variety though.
Title: Re: Sunflowers
Post by: HappyHippy on June 24, 2010, 06:36:42 pm
Yes, we had a multi headed one last year too - only grew to about 4 ft high, but had 7 flower heads on it. I don't know what variety it was though, it came out the bird feeder lol!
Title: Re: Sunflowers
Post by: Susie on June 24, 2010, 07:14:29 pm
I'm growing red sunflowers this year and they are a bush type. Much shorter than you would expect for a sunflower and loads of heads. Maybe your friends sunflower is one of the bush varieties? If so, she'll get lots more.