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My Neighbor didn't grow Heritage Sunflowers but Prehistoric ones (lemy.lol)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/gardening
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As far as I can tell they are over 9 feet tall... What the hell did they bury in their front yard?!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Those look like good old "mammoth" sunflowers. I tried to grow 16 sunflowers this season from different varieties, and only 6 of those survived. They all became monsters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah wow. Those seem easy to have as a statement piece. I might try to ask them for some seeds since that article undersells them as a statement piece

[–] SchmidtGenetics 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You sure? That link mentions single large heads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm growing half a dozen mammoth sunflowers that all have multi heads right now. They look exactly like OPs picture.

They may be a variant, but that's what they were called on the seed packet I used.