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My Neighbor didn't grow Heritage Sunflowers but Prehistoric ones(lemy.lol)

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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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mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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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.

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Krauerking@lemy.lolOP
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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

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SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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You sure? That link mentions single large heads.

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mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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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.

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Ruthalas@infosec.pub
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Biblically accurate sunflower.

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Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@fedia.io
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@Krauerking@lemy.lol

Those are pretty common in Amsterdam. Both in public spaces and even street gardens

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Krauerking@lemy.lolOP
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lol sunflowers are common here too, just usually you don’t enjoy them from a 2nd floor window.

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Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@fedia.io
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@Krauerking@lemy.lol yeah I meant that size of the sunflower, not the plant itself

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PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
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Looks like mammoth Russian sunflowers to me. We grow these every year along my driveway and the neighbors love them because they attract gold finches and red-headed house finches :-)

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