Giant Sunflower Harvest
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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It sure is nice to have some seeds for growing these!
I am really happy to see the cuttings made it looking good and still pretty strong! I figured you would dig the sunflower seeds and I can't wait to see the how tall yours get down there. I had them on daily water with the rest of my garden so were getting about half a gallon per day via drip.
I LOVE chinese noodle beans. I grew them a few years back and have a small handful of the beans left but it works perfect as I am already planning on growing a couple rows of them next year in with my pole beans yard. So thank you in advance!
Congrats on the win! Make sure to charge a lil extra for those seeds... ;~D
Thank you. I have enough of the others that I grew that hit 14 feet that I probably don't have to sell any of my winner's seeds. But if I do they will have to get a slight premium for sure!
Have you had any luck with your open bazaar store?
Actually yes I have. I started my store last year and have sold about .75 btc of various items. Most sales were last year but I have OB 2.0 going and my store is up and running now and am adding items daily. I recommend EVERYONE setup an OpenBazaar store
That's awesome! I might set one up in the future. I love the idea behind it. : )
Once the migration tool is released it will allow more of the original stores to get their listings up without having to re-input all the listings. Once that happens the usage should go up dramatically.
I see that the search functionality is much better so that's good! When I first downloaded it I had a hard time finding anything. Glad to see development is going well. : )
Those are amazing! I'll have to try some eventually!
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STOPbeautifull gardening picture 😍