Ich bin ein wenig neu im Garten und habe keine Ahnung, warum meine Sonnenblumen dieses Jahr so gigantisch sind. Ich habe ein hochgezogenes Bett in meinem Vorgarten und pflanzte letztes Jahr Gold-/Mondschein-Sonnenblumen, die auf etwa 4 bis 5 Fuß hohe Maximum angewachsen sind. In diesem Jahr habe ich nur Zinnien und Kosmos im Bett gepflanzt, aber einige übrig gebliebene Sonnenblumensamen müssen geblieben sein. Diese Sonnenblumen sind jedoch jetzt neun Fuß groß. Wie? Könnte es die Tatsache sein, dass die Samen seit einem ganzen Jahr im Boden sind? Vielleicht habe ich etwas auf dem Boden gemacht und mich einfach nicht erinnert? Der Ort und die Regenmenge haben sich nicht geändert, und ich bin mir nicht sicher, warum es anders sein könnte. Die Samen waren ein gemeinsamer Lauf der Mühlensamen aus Lowes IIRC. Die ersten drei Bilder sind in diesem Jahr und die letzten drei Bilder sind letztes Jahr. Sie können das Veranda -Dach zum Vergleich in den letzten 3 Bildern im Vergleich zum ersten sehen.
Von: CaptainPugsley
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They seem to be very happy there.
those sunflowers look like they pay rent and still judge your lawn every morning
Well they are probably seeds that reverted back.
Well that’s the native size of some sunflowers. If you planted hybrids before and they dropped seeds, this might be a return to the parent plants’ size. You really have to work on sunflowers to make them short!
They do look happy to be there!
If you seeded the sunflowers later on during the last season, this seasons sunflowers might have had a headstart.
How can you not feel happy when you see a sunflower 🌻? These are beautiful! Where I live, they never are in full bloom until the third week of August! 🌻.
They could have hybridised with a taller variety in the general area.
Alternatively… do you have a bird feeder?
Birds could have transplanted new seeds?
They’re called Mammoth sunflowers, mine used to grow taller than my garage roof – neighbors thought I had a green thumb. Nope, just good farm dirt. When starting to lose their petals, I cut them down, dried them in paper bags, used as bird feeders all winter.🌻
So beautiful! Looks like you’re an expert sunflower grower. I’m trying to grow one sunflower and it’s falling over. Is it supposed to?
Those are magnificent!
They do get very tall..looks great though
Remember that seeds are the blended genetic “children” of their parent plants. Someone nearby had something like Mammoth or Russian sunflowers and pollinators brought those genes to your flowers last year. Your flowers were fertilized and voilá! hybridization. If you want to avoid it, t try to cut off the heads as soon as the birds finish attacking the seed heads.
Looks like my front yard
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What area are you in? In the South we’ve had so many thunderstorms and the lightning does something to the air – something about nitrate. Could be stimulated that way? Also if they’ve been they a year, they’ve probably matured and already dealt with your climate and just know how to deal with it and thrive.
Mine have done the same. The straggler seeds are super charged.
There are perennial sunflowers. I don’t know much about them but is it possible you planted perennials last year. When you removed last year’s flowers did you leave the roots? I do know some of them have multiple blooms on a single stem. Or have you had a bird feeder in the vicinity? I generally get a few sunflowers pop up around my bird feeders from dropped seeds.
My first year growing sunflowers I had the same thing happen, and I’ve been chasing that high ever since. The only change was moving from a red clay area to a raised bed with great soil so I’ve got nothing. But if you figure it out let me know, I want more towering sunflowers. 😂😭
Y’all blew my mind; I totally forgot about my bird feeders! I have a cardinal bird feeder full of sunflower seeds among others right by the bed so that’s definitely a possibility. The other option of them reverting back to their parent genes also seems just as likely. I’ll point my research in those directions. Thank yall for the responses! I’ve dubbed the tallest one Golianthus and I’m working on preserving the first bloom in resin once it dries in silica gel.
Love it, so prettty!
I’m just wondering how you got those close up pictures from your roofline
You use miracle grow huh.
Awww i love them 🥰. Maybe they got to sprout earlier since the seeds were already there?
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This is my monster from two years ago. I didn’t even plant this one it just popped up, those are always the biggest ones for some reason. For reference I’m 5’3”.