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11 Apr 13, carine ferreira (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

planted sunflowers in pots 10 april want flowers to be at their peak 23 june. Think we ll be ok?

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31 Jan 13, Pam (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

I transplanted 150 Sunflower seedlings and now have lovely big strong plants and lots of flowers out. Hasnt affected mine any.

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12 Aug 11, Tony (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I transplanted 4 sunflowers from seedling pots and they grew very well. They were about 10cm tall when I did this.

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01 Dec 10, Patrick Conteh (Australia - temperate climate)

Please advise on the variety of sunflower to grow commercially for oil in Sierra Leone with temperatures that average 25 degrees C, Rainfall not a problem

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26 Apr 10, Jennifer (Australia - temperate climate)

I had a few questions about planting sunflowers; just by reading others' comments I now have the confidence to give it a go. Thank you so much for this site!

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19 Apr 10, C lee (Australia - temperate climate)

Stephen sunflowers wont react too good if u transplant so i would recommend just pulling out the weakest ones and letting the strong ones live.

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19 Feb 10, stephen (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Garden centre seeds were too expensive so I planted a whole heap of sunflower seeds which we buy from the supermarket for our cockatoo. Now I have got heaps of seedlings all very close to one another. Should I thin them out by transplanting or by pinching out? And what do you reckon is the minimum space I can leave between seedlings. Thanks

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26 Jan 10, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Taryn, in sub-tropical areas they should last well into autumn. You can plant now (January) to ensure they will grow through autumn, and start planting again in early spring.

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25 Jan 10, TD1 (Australia - temperate climate)

My sunflowers grew 6-7 foot, now im not sure what to do with the heads to retrieve the seeds?

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20 Jan 10, funkbunnt (Australia - temperate climate)

Ian Robertson I have grown a 3m tall sunflower this yeat with 30 flower heads! Im niot sure what the trick was - it was planted in November as a seeds in a spot near the potato bed which had been well manured with sheep poo!

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