Mongolian & American Giant Sunflowers
The 14 foot tall sunflowers had to be harvested since they had started to fall over from being too top heavy. These sunflowers are the tallest I have ever seen and grown. The 2 types have distinctly different colored seeds with the Mongolian being a purple and the American being black striped. Once I get the seeds dried and shucked/sorted I will be offering them up for sale and trade both here and in my OpenBazaar store:
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You can see how they had started falling over and laying atop the tomato row, atop each others support ties, and then just snapping mid way. I had to put in support bars to tie to at to 8 feet high. It worked to keep them from being damaged by the winds. The freezing temps have done a bit of damage to them such that I think it weakened the fibers a bit, allowing them to more easily fall over.
170 inches or 14 feet 2 inches tall was my Grand Champion winning Mongolian Giant Sunflower that I entered into the Spokane County Fair this year. It was the tallest one by 5 inches, the next tallest ones were all 165 inches. I am quite proud of this as I am actually able to compete at growing SOMETHING. I can grow anything, but never felt I could compete in any major way.
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