I went outside to check on my sunflowers as they are really top heavy so I have the heads strung up. I noticed one leave wilting and then I inspected further and it was only attached by a thread. I jumped the gun and pulled the leave instead of taping it and trying to fix it. Will this be detrimental to my plant? They are all nice and healthy I think? Idk this is my first attempt at growing something. Here’s some pictures l. Thanks for looking.
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Lol sorry I didn’t really know who to ask since I know this isn’t a sunflower forum lol this is the only “gardening forum” I’m a part of though so I thought I’d ask the great community of ILGM.
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Yep, what @Cannabian said the sunflower will be fine
Me too I’ve never been on a forum prior to ILGM
You will find a lot of people share their general garden wisdom around here too. I love this place! Happy growing
Good to know they just as important to me as my “other” plants. The one in the big 5 gallon I hope can reach that it’s a mammoth that I transplanted this week Plus the same one in the cloth pot is a mammoth as well. The goal was to hopefully have them grow as tall as me I have 3 type going now. The 3 strung up ones are vanilla ice and 2 others off camera are “sunshine sunflowers”? Their blooming now.
I have 3 going just now. One is 7ft, then 6ft and then 5ft. I grew them for my grandson who has no idea what a sunflower is . No idea why the size difference as they were all planted at the same time in the same soil. I do know that if you pull a leaf and it tears the stem you run the risk of letting an infection in
I dropped 6 sunflower seeds first time growing. Well only 2 made it something ate my till death. One is probably almost 6 ft a yellow and my other is probably 4 ft a red. These pictures are not recent they’re way bigger now and I’ve staked them for support
Beautiful plants. I had to stake mine as they started dropping yesterday and the string hanging up wasn’t cutting it. I just kind of started this on a whim and well, now I’m completely hooked. It’s great therapy. I’ll be harvesting these for seeds hopefully for next year as we get hit hard in the Midwest for winter. I’ll probably have a whole greenhouse at this rate by next spring .
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One of them is opening up and I couldn’t be more excited
Whoa those are really pretty! I love the red on them! I was looking at these PLum Sunflowers off of HOSS? website. There super pretty and the fiancés favorite color is purple. But shippings kinda a lot for some seeds lol. I wanted to get some diff colored ones as well but no stores had them around here unfortunately. Except the off yellow ones. I’ll definitely be trying more stuff next season as it’s a little late.
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Here’s an update and also a question. So my flowers are in full bloom. But one that was blooming first I saw a finch start eating it’s seeds out and it took some pettles off with it( Day 1 of Bloom and a critters eating it already ). Since then they haven’t really gotten it’s rear set of pettles like the other one. Can I still let this one develop its seeds more and harvest them for next year?
I don’t know why not. If some seeds make it and are plump worth a try to dry and plant next year. Sunflowers are large plants and I would think having them in a pot would be tricky. It is natural for the large flower to hang down, as it is so heavy. They used to grow commercial sunflowers around here in a SOG method and they all held each other up. I didn’t stake mine, just got lazy. And the birds are loving the seeds. I planted them as a visual screen as I had initially planned on planting our cannabis outside, then opted for an indoor grow. This is my first time since I was a kid to grow them and I love them. If we gets some seeds to roast that will be fine but not the ultimate goal. If you want to preserve seeds get a bird net to put over them.
First two photos were a couple of weeks ago and last one is what they look like now. End of summer they are kind of ragged. I planted three different types that get to three dif heights. It was all an experiment with me, which ALL my growing tends to be this one big scientific experiment.
the sunflower will be fine 
Me too I’ve never been on a forum prior to ILGM
I have 3 type going now. The 3 strung up ones are vanilla ice and 2 others off camera are “sunshine sunflowers”? Their blooming now. 
. No idea why the size difference as they were all planted at the same time in the same soil. I do know that if you pull a leaf and it tears the stem you run the risk of letting an infection in
I will get pics today. When they’re harvested I will just keep the head I love my drieds lol
