My BEST Tips for Growing Sunflowers for Cut Flowers!
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- I’m not sure if there is a summer flower more iconic than the sunflower. It’s a bright and cheery pop of color that so beautifully reflects the summer season!
In this video, I plan to share exactly why we LOVE growing sunflowers on our cut flower farm!
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I'm a prepper gardener, and like you said, you can throw them in where nothing else will grow and up they go. I like Mammoth Jerusalem Artichokes (sunflower tubers) and Grey Stripe Mammoth.
❤ this video. This will be my first year growing sunflowers!
Wonderful! You got this!! ✨🧡
I’m starting a micro flower farm & want succession planted sunflowers to be my workhorse while I’m getting started so this video was sooooooo helpful ❤ thank you!!
I'm so glad that this was helpful! Wishing you the best of luck!
Just started growing… something is eating the tops of my sunflower seedlings… any advice is so greatly appreciated!
Fantastic video! My absolute favorite varieties are Procut White Lite and Lemonade (fab branching style).
On another note, I would love to know how and when you clear your sunflower stalks once harvest is finished---the root masses are so big and bulky that its so disruptive if I pull them up out of my beds (but unlike other crops where I can just cut to the ground and let decompose over the winter, sunflowers are so big and woody that they’ll still be there next spring getting in the way (plus I’ve heard they can release a chemical that is not always friendly to other crops if you just leave them in the ground…don’t know if that’s true or not). Would love any tips on a more efficient way to clear my beds of sunflowers when the season is up!
❤❤❤Love your honesty ❤❤❤
Love the presentation learned so much! The sunflower and sweet peas are my two favorite flowers and I definitely plan to grow them. New subscriber.
Wahoo! Best of luck to you!
Great video, as always! I love Procut White Nite and Procut White Lite as well as Procut Plum for single stems. For branching sunflowers Lemonade has always done really well for me. Growing Teddy Bear sunflowers for the first time next year. I also grew Sunflower Steve's Van Gogh Fantasy Mix and had some lovely blooms this past summer. I can't imagine a garden without sunflowers!!
Thanks for sharing! I bet Sunflower Steve’s mix was a treat to enjoy in person! 🧡✨
@@twosistersflowerfarm We had weird weather in Massachusetts and more rain at times than our crops liked. Of the 15 or so seeds of his I sowed only about half survived but I'm chalking it up to the weather and the fact that I bit off more than I could chew in the garden this year. I'm going to pay closer attention to his seedlings next year as some of the ones I got this year were pretty neat. I'm looking forward to your video on preventing insect damage on flowers. i had a bigger problem with it this year because of all the wet weather.
I have tried sunflowers for three different years and decided that was the end of it! Then I watched this video, which was so helpful. Thank you so much! I will try my three favorite this summer and see if I can be successful.
If you have room for a branching variety I highly recommend Teddy Bear. So fluffy and they last 14 days before wilting if picked when just opening. It's a must grow!
I do love the teddy bear ones.. I think you’re absolutely right, a must-grow for sure! 🧡✨
I grew sunflower Steve’s beautiful mix this year and ohhhh wow!
I’m sure it’s even more beautiful in person! 🤩🧡
I can’t wait to get my hands on some of those!
Great video! Question!! When you harvest the sunflowers, how do you keep the stems straight? Mine almost always bend weird and then they are almost unusable or I have to cut them way down to put in a small vase. It’s super frustrating and wondered if you had any tips? Sometimes I’d bunch them together after harvest with a rubber band and that helps a little.
Thank you for the encouragement. I’m growing sunflowers for the first time ever. I can’t wait.
Best of luck to you! I'm sure they will grow great!
Hi, love all your videos. Can you share where you get your black buckets? Thanks
Please do a video on your grow light system… the shelves and lights … it looks great !
I always enjoy your videos. Thanks much!! Besides the pro cut gold my 2nd fav is white lite. My customers love it!
Thanks for tuning in :) And yes- white lite is such a good choice! :)
I quite enjoyed Vincent's sunflowers this year. I really felt in love with sunflowers this summer
Those Vincent's always catch my eye in the seed catalogue- I'll have to give them a try next season!
Thanks for the sharing. I have been wondering why my 🌻 were usually so large. Now I know I should plant them closer and also when to cut them for the vase. Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful! Best of luck growing this year!
Thank you so much for the information. I also just grow all ProCut, for the same reasons. I have found that pests LOVE the white night and white light series though so I don't think I'll grow that variety again. I do start mine under grow lights but you are so right that they get leggy SUPER FAST. You've just convinced me to give direct sowing a go next Spring.
Direct sowing.. it’s a game changer! 😉 You got this 👏👏🧡
The white nite & lite used to be my favorites, but now its gold lite! So beautiful! But I love the traditional orange with dark center as well, especially for my mixed bouquets.
I totally agree!
I love the Vincent's.
Interestingly, my Gold Lites don't have a green centre, they are all yellow with just a hint of green right at the centre - sometimes. Red Lemon ProCut is one of my favs. You could check it out on my top 5 sunflowers to see what it looks like.
I’ll definitely check out the Red Lemon! Sounds like a great combo ✨
My customers and I loved the white lite sunflower. I cover my transplants for a week as well to protect against the birds. Succession planting worked amazing for me this year. I picked Monday and it was a routine every Monday morning I started a new tray or two of sunflowers.
That is awesome! Love that you’ve found your groove by sticking to the same day each week- that’s what helps me stay on track too 🧡🧡
Great video.
I dont have a flower farm. Im just obsessed with sunflowers 😂, where do you source your seeds. I never planted the pro cut
Thank you.
How fun! I buy from either Johnny’s Seeds or Sunflower Selections
We lost a lot of blooms to cucumber beetle damage last year. This is the first time in 12 years this is ever happened. Do you have any thoughts on that?
I grow them all for cutting and the birds.
Good plan! 🧡