Sunflowers are truly amazing plants. Our natural soil is very sandy and every year sunflowers grow in this stuff almost devoid of nutrients and without water. A couple of days ago a squirrel chewed one in half, or so I thought. I went out today and although the plant has fallen over, it's STILL GROWING! The top few inches have bent upwards, it's growing toward the sun and has a healthy yellow head on it, and all that's still connected is about 1/4" of fibers on one side.
A couple of years ago I grew a Sunflower 24 inches across and about 12 foot tall. Put Chicken Manure in the soil, and water everyday... That's what I do.
That is awesome! I have been growing mine as solar protection outside a large window and have been doing some similar things. I have added granular fertilizer, along with a 2-2-2 liquid to give it all it needs along with a little worm tea. They are 8-9’ tall and still a ways out from flowering at this point. i recently planted a wide variety of them, including the mammoth’s I planted a few months back. This time I am doing more at the start to feed them. My biggest priority is to just make them big to add more shade between now and the end of the summer 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
Hi, l watched a chap who grows them for a living and his advice was to plant seeds into the ground because they have a long tap root and while you will get a flower when sown into a pot the results will be better from direct sowing. I have 3 that self seeded and about 100, some sown into pots, some kitchen roll inners and some sown directly. The ones that self seeded have very large leaves. Mine are Titan which are large single flower heads. Another thing the chap said, the best ones to grow are the single giants. Thanks for the video
Right! That's exactly what happened to me. I started them in a seed starter and solo cups. I must have kept them in the cups to long because they didn't grow as tall and as huge of sunflowers.
I started growing sunflowers this year. The soil in the bed I have them in is not the greatest because I’m just building it up. My sunflowers are absolutely gorgeous
How cute....your daughter in the background ❤️❤️❤️ she's like a little garden fairy❤️ Great advice. Thanks for sharing. Going to try it with my sunflowers too!!
I have about 10 or 12 sunflowers that are around 4 to 5 foot tall. I will be pruning them tomorrow! Thanks for the information.....I’m a new subscriber but have been watching for about a year. Love your content
Thanks to your 4-H friend and yourself for the great tip on growing larger heads on Sunflower plants. I appreciate it. I hope to grow Sunflowers next season in my new home's back yard.
Thank you Janette for sharing with Luke so he could share with us. I am not really looking for giant flowers, but I am growing sunflowers for the first time this year and still learn a thing or two about sunflower plants. Sunflowers are my husband's favorite flower (it's a childhood thing) and I just can't wait to get them to bloom! The plants are tall and healthy and showing the flower buds...so freaking excited!!
I just wanted to say thank you for all of your informative videos. I started my first garden in about 12 years and went way past my original scope of a couple small water troughs. I built three 4x8 foot raised beds and filled twelve 25 gallon grow bags, and with your help my tomato plants are already over 5 foot tall after going in the ground a little more than a month ago!
Thanks Luke! This is right on time. I just planted my very first sunflower seeds. I'm in Central Texas, so I'm sure I still have enough season left to grow them. I will certainly give this trick a try!
I got some worms from a guy about 3 years ago. Had them in a bin and grew many many more. I scattered them about my garden area(probably about 3 months after getting them) and now they are everywhere!! I can dig up one shovel of dirt and there will be 20 worms in there. They really do multiply quickly!! I noticed a huge difference after just the first year.
Bees betta have my honey. In all seriousness I planted some Vanilla Ice that are doing great. Some Sunshine’s looking good. And 2 mammoths one was a twin sadly only one came of it and it’s sprout looks weak. :( The other one is doing great and I’ll have to transport it this week. I’m doing them in pots lol.
I had these caterpillars that were turning the leaves into a brown shell. a light dusting of food grade diatomaceous earth on the leaves have ran them off
I have lost count of my replantings. I've read that direct-seeding is best, but the birds & squirrels keep taking them, so I have some started in peat pots, now.
Think its time to see a video on all the plans that prune like tomatoes , sunflowers and cucumbers. like how many plants get pruned by taking off suckers ?
Cool - that's exactly how I'm growing mine this year - without seeing this - just based off my own idea. Cool! Plus all the pruning goes to the rabbits, which then make the fertilizer for the gardens. Also the sunflower seeds are super healthy for rabbits to eat, so the gardens get all those nutrients too with the 2 hour composting technique known as rabbit manure :D
Thank you for sharing ❤️💗❤️ Going out tomorrow and get to work.... SENDING A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT OF LOVE TO SURROUND THE UNIVERSE 🤗💞💖🤗 AND EVERYONE 🤗❣️❣️🤗
Thanks for the advice Luke . I’m waiting in line to buy some garlic from you . I plan on planting a lot of it . I’m sure your going to do a harvest video soon on them .
I am growing sunflowers this year and went out to prune them based on your tip and I don't have any "suckers" to prune. Mine look just like yours and are pretty tall. So maybe all varieties don't produce "suckers"? Or perhaps I just don't have any yet...
Super great tip my friend! I'm growing Mammoth Sunflowers this year for the first time and they are 9+ feet tall at the moment (and still not developing a head yet). I will try this method of sniping off the sucker branches to direct the energy. This method is the same way we grow giant buds on cannabis plants. We snip of the sucker branches at the end of veg/pre-flower to direct energy into making bigger and better buds.
HEEEEY!!! I got a problem guys! I ran out to my garden @ 5am this morning (because I was excited after watching this video last night) and upon checking out my MAMMOTH sunflower (she's doing VERY well by the way), I noticed that I did not have ANY sucker branches. I have plenty of leaves, but no sucker branches coming out, in between the leaves? I also have "Firecatcher" sunflowers next to it, and the Firecatchers do not have sucker branches either. What is going on here? Is it normal for a sunflower plant not to have sucker branches? Is it the because of the certain strain of sunflower I'm growing, that it does not have suckers? Thanks for the help in advance guys!
Ty Luke! I learned something new today. I grew some from a packet from a dollar store. Every year I saved the biggest head's seeds. I didn't even know what I was doing really. Lol. Blessings!!
Pruning totally works! First year i did this i had several that were around 14-15 inches across.... 16 ft high btw.... Russian mammoths are truly MAMMOTH!
THANKS Jannette!!! Planting sunflower seeds now for fall. I'm excited to try this - never heard of this until now. Yippee! Something new to try out in the garden. Appreciate you passing this on to us subscribers Luke - you're the best!
No way! It does make sense, but I never would have thought of that. Very cool tip, thanks to you and her for sharing the info. Thumbs up for you and your PR Director hanging out in the background.
Thanks Luke for this very informative video! I certainly marvel at the ability of the sunflower to build its own biomass. We got some pretty bad soil this year for our raised beds, in which most of our crop failed. But in one bed we planted sunflowers and marigold from seed and both are doing tremendously well. One of them is already over seven foot tall. Never fertilized it, and as I said most other things that were planted in this soil died pretty quickly.
Thank you for your video. I did wonder if I had to prune mine that way like my tomatoes. I’m growing teddy bear sunflowers but they have multiple heads. Will try the mammoth variety too.
So sunflowers are really special to me and my mom because they were her dads (my grandparents) favorite flower and she was super close with him and on his deathbed he told her that whenever she saw a sunflower that would be his way of communicating with us from beyond. Like a way to think of him. And when he finally passed, not long after did sunflowers out of nowhere started growing in our yard. And since then we take care of them and replant them every year and I’m thinking it can be a family tradition, because we don’t have too much of those lol at least on my moms side and that would be a way to connect generationally long after I’m gone
Very interesting,I must go out and take a look. I always just let them do there thing. Thanks for the plug for 4-H as it is a great group for the youth ( in Canada I believe from 6-21 is the main age category ) which includes so many options to work on.
Thank you so much , very informative, I will try , I appreciate your video very much . You look so young ,where did you get to know so much about gardening, your passionate for sure .keep it up. Ferdinand from Canada
So is it better to plant them directly into the outside soil from seeds vs starting them inside with small containers before the frost then transferred into the outside ? ? ? Thx again for the advice ! 👍🌼⚾️
I grew a 14 inch sunflower, and thought that was huge, and then grew a 16 inch the year after that. Unfortunately I didn't get any seeds from the 16 inch plant. I may have chopped off the head a little early so that the squirrels didn't get the seeds like the did on the 14 inch plant. All of the seeds were empty. Just hollow shells. The following year I got nets so I could keep the heads on and that worked out great.
Crazy! This is my first year growing mammoth sunflowers and they are about 5 - 7 ft tall already. I'm doing this as soon as I get home from work today!
Wow, that is so amazing, so glad to have this information. Thank you, and please thank her again for sharing!!! So quick story, been trying to grow sunflowers every year for almost 8 years, and i have been so discouraged because as soon as they get big enough, maybe a few inches tall, they would always get eaten my something. This year has been my first successful year growing sunflowers and the biggest one is taller then my husband (6ft2in). and so we have finally found a place to move that is bigger and we can do a better little urban homestead (so very excited) and i've been worried that the sunflowers wont bloom before we move and i very much want to see them! so my husband started pruning them, in the hopes that they will bloom faster. No bloom yet but there are 2 that have developed flower heads, so i'm checking everyday. What was so interested to me, was that when they are not pruned sunflowers are a little flexible right, but we noticed that once we pruned some of the lower leaves, within minutes the stalk firmed up and it stood with very little flex. This was so fascinating to me because the plant adapted to the change and made itself stronger to protect itself. Anyway, thanks for sharing, and reading my little story. I just love sunflowers!!!
@@Charlie-ww5dq If mine get going this year and if I have any extra time I might try it! Thank you! (If I don't have enough grow time, I will just try next year. I'm in the zone 6. My growing climate and season is pretty much the same as Luke.
Cool. I have about 7 mammoth gray striped growing. Only about 25% of what I planted germinated. That’s fine because I really couldn’t imagine how big they would get.
I'm growing them for the first time as the 4 sisters garden. Autumn beauties. Planted 4 but dang birds got one of the seedlings. I'll have to try pruning tomorrow.
I agree sunflowers don't require a lot of attention. My pruning is done by some animal I have yet to identify. But luckily they leave the top leaves and flowers. One question: I see lots of ants around the stems..no aphids on leaves. But just curious why they like to crawl around them.
Nice, my side shoots turning yellow and drying up themselves 😂, new growing sunflowers 🌻, mine got a nice big head. While the other ones got mutilated in a hailstorm. Trying here 😂
Been watching for years. I've sent dozen of new gardeners to your channel.
thank you!
Just realized ur in Michigan ? D shirt - mi Gardner ..
Me too.
Sunflowers are truly amazing plants. Our natural soil is very sandy and every year sunflowers grow in this stuff almost devoid of nutrients and without water.
A couple of days ago a squirrel chewed one in half, or so I thought. I went out today and although the plant has fallen over, it's STILL GROWING! The top few inches have bent upwards, it's growing toward the sun and has a healthy yellow head on it, and all that's still connected is about 1/4" of fibers on one side.
A couple of years ago I grew a Sunflower 24 inches across and about 12 foot tall. Put Chicken Manure in the soil, and water everyday... That's what I do.
That is awesome! I have been growing mine as solar protection outside a large window and have been doing some similar things. I have added granular fertilizer, along with a 2-2-2 liquid to give it all it needs along with a little worm tea. They are 8-9’ tall and still a ways out from flowering at this point. i recently planted a wide variety of them, including the mammoth’s I planted a few months back. This time I am doing more at the start to feed them. My biggest priority is to just make them big to add more shade between now and the end of the summer 👊🏻🌻👊🏻
Hi, l watched a chap who grows them for a living and his advice was to plant seeds into the ground because they have a long tap root and while you will get a flower when sown into a pot the results will be better from direct sowing. I have 3 that self seeded and about 100, some sown into pots, some kitchen roll inners and some sown directly. The ones that self seeded have very large leaves. Mine are Titan which are large single flower heads. Another thing the chap said, the best ones to grow are the single giants. Thanks for the video
Right! That's exactly what happened to me. I started them in a seed starter and solo cups. I must have kept them in the cups to long because they didn't grow as tall and as huge of sunflowers.
I started growing sunflowers this year. The soil in the bed I have them in is not the greatest because I’m just building it up. My sunflowers are absolutely gorgeous
I thought the "if she shared with you she'd have to kill you" bit was going to end with "but it's worth sharing so"
Oh, my silly imagination. 🤣
Thanks Janette and Luke. I can't wait to grow sunflowers next year.
How cute....your daughter in the background ❤️❤️❤️ she's like a little garden fairy❤️ Great advice. Thanks for sharing. Going to try it with my sunflowers too!!
I had "how to grow giant sunflowers: in my search bar, then this showed up in my recommended feed... what a coincidence! Uploaded just now! Thanks!!!
Coincidence...
@@rowanfernsler9725 Coincidence? I think not. 😉
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I have about 10 or 12 sunflowers that are around 4 to 5 foot tall. I will be pruning them tomorrow! Thanks for the information.....I’m a new subscriber but have been watching for about a year. Love your content
me too
If they have strong stalks you can use those stalks after you dry them out as a support for indeterminate tomatoe vines.
Ram Z: Great idea! Thanks 🌻
Great tips. Thanks from Ireland 🇮🇪🍀
Thanks to your 4-H friend and yourself for the great tip on growing larger heads on Sunflower plants. I appreciate it. I hope to grow Sunflowers next season in my new home's back yard.
THANK YOU Jannett! Best of luck in 4H!
Got 3 just sprouted from seed and am excited to see how they go. My first time. Thanks for the tips ! 🙏😃🌻
Awesome! I grow them for seeds to eat as well as birds and squirrels to keep them away from other crops! Gonna try this!
Thank you Janette for sharing with Luke so he could share with us. I am not really looking for giant flowers, but I am growing sunflowers for the first time this year and still learn a thing or two about sunflower plants. Sunflowers are my husband's favorite flower (it's a childhood thing) and I just can't wait to get them to bloom! The plants are tall and healthy and showing the flower buds...so freaking excited!!
I just wanted to say thank you for all of your informative videos. I started my first garden in about 12 years and went way past my original scope of a couple small water troughs. I built three 4x8 foot raised beds and filled twelve 25 gallon grow bags, and with your help my tomato plants are already over 5 foot tall after going in the ground a little more than a month ago!
Thanks Luke! This is right on time. I just planted my very first sunflower seeds. I'm in Central Texas, so I'm sure I still have enough season left to grow them. I will certainly give this trick a try!
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I'm growing sunflowers for first time and will try this! I planted about 4 different varieties including the mammoth. Great tips!
I was just watching your worm bin videos... ordered my worms!
THANK YOU
I got some worms from a guy about 3 years ago. Had them in a bin and grew many many more. I scattered them about my garden area(probably about 3 months after getting them) and now they are everywhere!! I can dig up one shovel of dirt and there will be 20 worms in there. They really do multiply quickly!! I noticed a huge difference after just the first year.
Have some mammoth and titan seeds, hoping to seduce some bees into the yard wink wink lol
Boom chicka wow wow.
Bees betta have my honey.
In all seriousness I planted some Vanilla Ice that are doing great. Some Sunshine’s looking good. And 2 mammoths one was a twin sadly only one came of it and it’s sprout looks weak. :( The other one is doing great and I’ll have to transport it this week. I’m doing them in pots lol.
Queen Bee - huh?
Show pictures.
@@mnamous9823 brown chicken brown cow :)
I have learned the first and foremost rule of growing the largest sunflowers
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Don't let the groundhogs eat the seedlings!
I have had to replant three times already?! UGH!!!!
I’ve also had 3 sunflowers get ripped apart by squirrels 💔
I had these caterpillars that were turning the leaves into a brown shell.
a light dusting of food grade diatomaceous earth on the leaves have ran them off
I have lost count of my replantings. I've read that direct-seeding is best, but the birds & squirrels keep taking them, so I have some started in peat pots, now.
Thank you Jeanette! Great video and find.
Think its time to see a video on all the plans that prune like tomatoes , sunflowers and cucumbers. like how many plants get pruned by taking off suckers ?
Cool - that's exactly how I'm growing mine this year - without seeing this - just based off my own idea. Cool! Plus all the pruning goes to the rabbits, which then make the fertilizer for the gardens. Also the sunflower seeds are super healthy for rabbits to eat, so the gardens get all those nutrients too with the 2 hour composting technique known as rabbit manure :D
Do your rabbits have access to the sunflowers? My rabbit free ranges but I'm thinking I need to section the sunflowers off so he doesn't eat them....?
I love your videos, and enthusiasm!
You are one of my favorite RUclipsrs. Your videos are so relaxing and I absolutely love everything gardening 😍
I love my sunflowers, started with dwarfs, moving my way up to larger varieties! Super informative video, thank you!
Thanks! I'm growing some for the first time this year. This is perfect timing.
Thank you for sharing ❤️💗❤️
Going out tomorrow and get to work....
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Thanks for sharing. Omg.... love sunflower ever....
I normally grow very large sunflower heads, however I would like to learn how to grow seeds that I can grow or even make sunflower oil.
Thanks for the advice Luke . I’m waiting in line to buy some garlic from you . I plan on planting a lot of it . I’m sure your going to do a harvest video soon on them .
That’s fantastic Luke! Can’t wait to try this with my sunflowers this year! 🌻🌻🌻
We have about 20 sun flowers, my wife and sons will be amazed. Im going to prune them, thanks Luke!
I am growing sunflowers this year and went out to prune them based on your tip and I don't have any "suckers" to prune. Mine look just like yours and are pretty tall. So maybe all varieties don't produce "suckers"? Or perhaps I just don't have any yet...
My favorite multi flower sunflower is called evening mix. Beautiful flowers. Highly recommended.
Super great tip my friend! I'm growing Mammoth Sunflowers this year for the first time and they are 9+ feet tall at the moment (and still not developing a head yet). I will try this method of sniping off the sucker branches to direct the energy. This method is the same way we grow giant buds on cannabis plants. We snip of the sucker branches at the end of veg/pre-flower to direct energy into making bigger and better buds.
HEEEEY!!! I got a problem guys! I ran out to my garden @ 5am this morning (because I was excited after watching this video last night) and upon checking out my MAMMOTH sunflower (she's doing VERY well by the way), I noticed that I did not have ANY sucker branches. I have plenty of leaves, but no sucker branches coming out, in between the leaves?
I also have "Firecatcher" sunflowers next to it, and the Firecatchers do not have sucker branches either. What is going on here? Is it normal for a sunflower plant not to have sucker branches? Is it the because of the certain strain of sunflower I'm growing, that it does not have suckers? Thanks for the help in advance guys!
Once pinched the top off a sunflower. Ended up with around 20 heads, looked good in the sunshine and the wind.
That was really cool.I have gardened for yrs and have never heard that.Pruning the sunflower.That 1...Nice Tip 🌻🌼🌻
Tell your friend thank you very much for the tip!
Can you please do a growing guide on garbanzo beans ?
Ty Luke! I learned something new today. I grew some from a packet from a dollar store. Every year I saved the biggest head's seeds. I didn't even know what I was doing really. Lol. Blessings!!
Thank you. My sunflowers are about 5 feet tall now and I never noticed the suckers but I will go out this morning and look.
I just start them about a month before the last frost, works well so far
Pruning totally works! First year i did this i had several that were around 14-15 inches across.... 16 ft high btw.... Russian mammoths are truly MAMMOTH!
Thank you Janet! Thank you MIgardener!!!
THANKS Jannette!!! Planting sunflower seeds now for fall. I'm excited to try this - never heard of this until now. Yippee! Something new to try out in the garden. Appreciate you passing this on to us subscribers Luke - you're the best!
WOW, now I know. Who would have thought a person would sucker a sun flower.
No way! It does make sense, but I never would have thought of that. Very cool tip, thanks to you and her for sharing the info. Thumbs up for you and your PR Director hanging out in the background.
Thanks Luke for this very informative video! I certainly marvel at the ability of the sunflower to build its own biomass. We got some pretty bad soil this year for our raised beds, in which most of our crop failed. But in one bed we planted sunflowers and marigold from seed and both are doing tremendously well. One of them is already over seven foot tall. Never fertilized it, and as I said most other things that were planted in this soil died pretty quickly.
Could you put the suckers in water and get them to root like pepper plants?
I was wondering the same thing...
Try it out!
You best show the young Lady, more credit.👍👍
Thank you Janette(?) for sharing that with us! I can’t wait to try that here in Australia this summer!
Thanks Luke for another great episode!
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You learn something new everyday. Thank you and thank the lady for sharing too.
First time growing giant sunflowers and I have a few that are getting really tall and big fingers crossed!
Thank you for your video. I did wonder if I had to prune mine that way like my tomatoes. I’m growing teddy bear sunflowers but they have multiple heads. Will try the mammoth variety too.
Awesome ! I have sunflowers growing this year ! Thanks Luke !
So sunflowers are really special to me and my mom because they were her dads (my grandparents) favorite flower and she was super close with him and on his deathbed he told her that whenever she saw a sunflower that would be his way of communicating with us from beyond. Like a way to think of him. And when he finally passed, not long after did sunflowers out of nowhere started growing in our yard. And since then we take care of them and replant them every year and I’m thinking it can be a family tradition, because we don’t have too much of those lol at least on my moms side and that would be a way to connect generationally long after I’m gone
Thanks man. I'll try this next season.
This is my first year growing sunflowers. I will have to try this !!
Also. Got to love the mini sneeking up behind you lol
Thanks for the tip. My titans are going to be really nice!
I don’t even try to grow sunflowers but they come up every year. I’ll have to try this method to make them worthwhile!
Very interesting,I must go out and take a look. I always just let them do there thing. Thanks for the plug for 4-H as it is a great group for the youth ( in Canada I believe from 6-21 is the main age category ) which includes so many options to work on.
Thank you so much , very informative, I will try , I appreciate your video very much . You look so young ,where did you get to know so much about gardening, your passionate for sure .keep it up. Ferdinand from Canada
Good info, thanks. To late to do this year but will try it next year. Sunflowers are one thing I plant every year. Thanks again.
I’ve had some good success with air pruning pots with Azos. I grew a grey stripe last year 18ft tall before the head opened up, head wasn’t huge.
So is it better to plant them directly into the outside soil from seeds vs starting them inside with small containers before the frost then transferred into the outside ? ? ? Thx again for the advice ! 👍🌼⚾️
Thank you for passing this tip along. I'm totally going to do this
For the first time I know that sunflower can be trimmed thank you for the tip
wow, cool, thanks for the info ! Please keep us updated and show us how big it got ! Thanks !
I grew a 14 inch sunflower, and thought that was huge, and then grew a 16 inch the year after that. Unfortunately I didn't get any seeds from the 16 inch plant. I may have chopped off the head a little early so that the squirrels didn't get the seeds like the did on the 14 inch plant. All of the seeds were empty. Just hollow shells. The following year I got nets so I could keep the heads on and that worked out great.
I’ve just “grown” ( I mean, the plant did the work ) a sunflower with a head 15” in diam. weighing almost exactly 3kg here in Nottingham, UK
I just instinctively pruned mine. Our dont have suckers but I do prune the lower leaves
Thanks jennett 👍❤️
For personalized sunflower notebooks, search Quasar and then your name in amazon. It makes a great gift.
That cheery bloom at the top fades and then those occipital buds put on a show for a few more weeks! It depends on your reason for growing I guess
Perfect timing! My sunflowers are growing fast!
Crazy! This is my first year growing mammoth sunflowers and they are about 5 - 7 ft tall already. I'm doing this as soon as I get home from work today!
Excellent tips! Thank you for picking her brain, sharing and evading death 😂
Wow, that is so amazing, so glad to have this information. Thank you, and please thank her again for sharing!!! So quick story, been trying to grow sunflowers every year for almost 8 years, and i have been so discouraged because as soon as they get big enough, maybe a few inches tall, they would always get eaten my something. This year has been my first successful year growing sunflowers and the biggest one is taller then my husband (6ft2in). and so we have finally found a place to move that is bigger and we can do a better little urban homestead (so very excited) and i've been worried that the sunflowers wont bloom before we move and i very much want to see them! so my husband started pruning them, in the hopes that they will bloom faster. No bloom yet but there are 2 that have developed flower heads, so i'm checking everyday.
What was so interested to me, was that when they are not pruned sunflowers are a little flexible right, but we noticed that once we pruned some of the lower leaves, within minutes the stalk firmed up and it stood with very little flex. This was so fascinating to me because the plant adapted to the change and made itself stronger to protect itself.
Anyway, thanks for sharing, and reading my little story. I just love sunflowers!!!
Thx for the tip did you know that sunflower you can eat every thing from it the outer stalk is good for making rope to clothes.
Cool! My kids are growing mammoth for fun this summer. I'll have them try this.
Crazy question here: can you propagate those suckers like you can with tomatoes?
@Rinda Batson I meant propagate the sunflower suckers.
No harm in trying if you will snip then off anyway!
@@Charlie-ww5dq If mine get going this year and if I have any extra time I might try it! Thank you! (If I don't have enough grow time, I will just try next year. I'm in the zone 6. My growing climate and season is pretty much the same as Luke.
Cool. I have about 7 mammoth gray striped growing. Only about 25% of what I planted germinated. That’s fine because I really couldn’t imagine how big they would get.
@Rinda Batson I'm going to try it if mine ever get going and if I have enough time. If not, I'm going to try next year. It's definitely worth a try.
I'm growing them for the first time as the 4 sisters garden. Autumn beauties. Planted 4 but dang birds got one of the seedlings. I'll have to try pruning tomorrow.
Thank you for sharing this exciting information, Jenette.
Thx for sharing this tip! I love your videos 😊😊😊
Any tips on how to keep squirrels away from eating all your sunflower seeds? 🤔
Thank you! We planted Sun flowers for first tim this year I will do this. I will ley you know how they work out. Thank You again!
Oh boy, I got 100 of these planted, looks like I got something to do.
I did not know this. Thank you
I'll have to give this tip a try on my 🌻 sunflowers.
AH! Luke I was just wondering why my sunflowers looked like they had suckers (my first year) wow! Great timing!!
I agree sunflowers don't require a lot of attention. My pruning is done by some animal I have yet to identify. But luckily they leave the top leaves and flowers. One question: I see lots of ants around the stems..no aphids on leaves. But just curious why they like to crawl around them.
Will there be a garlic harvesting video? I'm waiting on my first harvest and hoping to see yours first. Thanks.
VERY SOON! :D Tomorrow we are filming it!
Nice, my side shoots turning yellow and drying up themselves 😂, new growing sunflowers 🌻, mine got a nice big head. While the other ones got mutilated in a hailstorm. Trying here 😂
Cool.
Question (for her maybe, if you can ask): can those suckers be used to root them and actually produce new plants with them?
I was going to ask the same question since the stem has little hairs
I was wondering that as well. I'm going to try and see what happens.
Guud tip maybe i can cut the leaves too to save some more energy.
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