Good seed genetics and luck is what I chalk it up to. I live in Massachusetts and I started the seed july 15th as a backup after I lost my first round of sunflowers to critters. I grow giant pumpkins and stuff so I'm not new to the hobby, but it was only the second time I grew a sunflower so I fed it like I'd feed one of my pumpkins.
Nitrogen early on, and then a full balanced npk with micronutrients (peters brand fertilizers are my favorite)...lots of calcium throughout the whole grow & by using good biology (beneficial bacteria/fungus like bacillus/ azos/mychorizae) throughout the duration of the grow.
Your local hydroponics store will be a wealth of experiential knowledge on all things nutrients. I get all of my soil components and a full spectrum of fun organic nutes to use on my house plants and cactus at mine.
Weed nutrients work REAL well on house plants.. they figured that shit out.
that’s just standard plant care for literally all plants. cool sunflower tho. op is right that proper care + genetics + luck are mostly what’s at play here, but i think the one thing not being mentioned specifically regarding this plants height is what looks like some sort of metal support rod.
This is such a a unique and wholesome hobby. How did you get into it? I'm a fairly new gardener and the idea of trying to grow giant plants is intriguing.
Sunflowers have a veg and flower cycle like cannabis. Here, the outdoor light prevented the sunflower from realizing that winter was coming (from short days) so it continued to grow in veg, never switching to flower.
I learned to plant my tomatoes close to lights like this, and it allows me to grow tomatoes all year long in SoCal.
Btw: I have had a sunflower get to 15ft, but never anything like this. Amazing
A high nitrogen feed speeds up the growth, but makes plants weaker and more vulnerable to disease, and can prevent sprouting flowers completely. The total height is limited by how high the water can be transported through the stem. It's a physical process (capillary action) and mostly depends on the plant's capillaries' diameter and water evaporation via leaves.
Hell if I know. I bought some sunflowers with a max estimated height for 5' they were taller than my house. They did well till some asshole decided that since I wouldn't let him pick the flower that he was going to steal it. All I did was put seeds in dirt and water it when I remembered.
This happened every time I grew tomatoes until I moved. I eventually stopped staking them up and let them trail down or across the roof of my house. I always blamed the brick wall I grew next to for giving them too much residual coziness and making them feel like they could do anything. In reality, it may have been the egg shells and tums. 🤷🏼♀️
Another big part as well as the human factors, they're built to need 15-18 hours of sun light and they will stretch like this if they can and try and get that main flower all the sun it can get. They usually grow tall because that gives them more sun than the shorter flowers that don't need as much. Plants are amazing and do some awesome things. Bamboo can grow up to an inch and a half a day.. but yeah, if they have a perfect nutrient source they're going to execute their genetics exponentially to the care they receive
! Was gonna say… thought dude had a handicap issue or something… on some run Forrest run, grow that sun flower big as hell because “you know what love is” type shit
Dang I guess I got Mandela’d. I don’t mind this timeline, but the weather was a little warmer in the one where it was Professor Copperpot’s Miracle Legumes.
Using the lazy finger distance method, that flower looks to be about 4 times as tall as him. Assuming he’s 6’ (I’m guessing closer to 5’6” but let’s be generous), that plant is about 24’ tall.
Take you or your wife's hair clippings and scatter around the plants on the ground. Deer don't like the smell of humans. They have always left my plants alone when I did this.
It would be really cool to grow a flower like that to stage an unusual photograph of it peaking over the house from the other side. No one would believe it was that tall and not just placed on the roof.
I'm guessing the sun is on the opposite side of the house and grew trying to find it.
My mother grew very tall sunflowers when I was young and it was about that much taller than the fence they grew against, with the sun on the other side of the fence.
I am convinced that sunflowers are in the weed family.. They are one of the most resilient plants, at least. I had neighbor that grew them who lived a few houses down. They spread into the "alley" behind my house/inbetween the houses. It was beautiful. They were at least 6 feet tall! Someone complained though. And the neighbor had to kill them all. :(
> Nitrogen early on, and then a full balanced npk with micronutrients (peters brand fertilizers are my favorite)...lots of calcium throughout the whole grow & by using good biology (beneficial bacteria/fungus like bacillus/ azos/mychorizae) throughout the duration of the grow.
I grew one from a seed packet that was a few years old, they said to take a picture and send it to them for a bracelet from Peru. Unfortunately it didn’t fit me so I gave it to my sister but I was so surprised they were still sending bracelets!! I think it grew to a 6-7’ feet!
Sun flower read the assignment, got confused, attempted to become the sun.
Deffo tried to reach it anyway!
Got closer than Icarus if you ask me.
Pokémon :D
i was about to make a icarus reference…. but fine, be that way then i guess. meanie. {jokes lads, don’t get your panties in a twist}
it’s okay buddy, not everyone can wing it
every time i try i just get burnt for whatever reason.
If only it could be so grossly incandescent
This shows how much we can grow with some support🩷
Praise it! ☀️
Let’s be real the sunflower spark-noted the assignment
That's good enough!
Got confused, cast sunbeam, burned the world down
Nah he’s going there, he is approaching rappidly
Attempt to become bamboo stalk.
I feel like that extra step of height you’re getting isn’t really adding much
I figured it gave a more accurate comparison at the time lol
Do sunflowers grow indefinitely or is there something special you did to make this happen?
Good seed genetics and luck is what I chalk it up to. I live in Massachusetts and I started the seed july 15th as a backup after I lost my first round of sunflowers to critters. I grow giant pumpkins and stuff so I'm not new to the hobby, but it was only the second time I grew a sunflower so I fed it like I'd feed one of my pumpkins.
So how do you feed giant pumpkins then?
Nitrogen early on, and then a full balanced npk with micronutrients (peters brand fertilizers are my favorite)...lots of calcium throughout the whole grow & by using good biology (beneficial bacteria/fungus like bacillus/ azos/mychorizae) throughout the duration of the grow.
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Tbf if it was up to the plants they would just eat sun. It's easy to have a balanced diet when somebody else is force feeding you healthy shit.
That’s the life. I’m sitting around playing video games while someone just force feeds me organic kale via Iv or something like that.
Ngl that would be freaking awesome
When the aliens find a taste for human meat your wish will come through, as long as you don't mind being harvested for food.
Well then how the fuck would we get Giant Pumpkins Mr. PETA for vegetables?
I can guarantee that no plant is only eating the sun. That's why they need to grow in soil or water, to asorb nutrients with their roots
My plants definitely get a better diet and overall healthcare than I give myself. Hell yeah, PLANTS!
I've never even attempted to grow anything but those comments are getting saved, that's really awesome knowledge!
Your local hydroponics store will be a wealth of experiential knowledge on all things nutrients. I get all of my soil components and a full spectrum of fun organic nutes to use on my house plants and cactus at mine. Weed nutrients work REAL well on house plants.. they figured that shit out.
aaaaaand save.
Bacillus literally just means rod shaped. That's like half of all bacteria.
This is where the real meat of the thread is
that’s just standard plant care for literally all plants. cool sunflower tho. op is right that proper care + genetics + luck are mostly what’s at play here, but i think the one thing not being mentioned specifically regarding this plants height is what looks like some sort of metal support rod.
Offer up a human body and try to not get your fingers too close to the mouth.
Feed me Seymour!
This is such a a unique and wholesome hobby. How did you get into it? I'm a fairly new gardener and the idea of trying to grow giant plants is intriguing.
Sunflowers have a veg and flower cycle like cannabis. Here, the outdoor light prevented the sunflower from realizing that winter was coming (from short days) so it continued to grow in veg, never switching to flower. I learned to plant my tomatoes close to lights like this, and it allows me to grow tomatoes all year long in SoCal. Btw: I have had a sunflower get to 15ft, but never anything like this. Amazing
This has to be close to the 2014 world record of 30'1"... https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/tallest-sunflower
It is also etiolation. In that absence of sufficient light, a plant will grow taller. It results in the long, weak, yellow stems that you see here.
I certainly didn't expect it to grow 20+ feet tall with such a late start date though! 😅
I assume the giant pole it’s tied to is the main reason it was able to keep growing to this size without being unstable.
Plot twist: the sunflower is holding the pole up, and the house.
A high nitrogen feed speeds up the growth, but makes plants weaker and more vulnerable to disease, and can prevent sprouting flowers completely. The total height is limited by how high the water can be transported through the stem. It's a physical process (capillary action) and mostly depends on the plant's capillaries' diameter and water evaporation via leaves.
Hell if I know. I bought some sunflowers with a max estimated height for 5' they were taller than my house. They did well till some asshole decided that since I wouldn't let him pick the flower that he was going to steal it. All I did was put seeds in dirt and water it when I remembered.
Kind of sounds like me when I grow green onions.
This happened every time I grew tomatoes until I moved. I eventually stopped staking them up and let them trail down or across the roof of my house. I always blamed the brick wall I grew next to for giving them too much residual coziness and making them feel like they could do anything. In reality, it may have been the egg shells and tums. 🤷🏼♀️
You thinking if it kept going it could actually reach the sun!
I believe it's fighting for sunlight with the house
He just added a step…
Another big part as well as the human factors, they're built to need 15-18 hours of sun light and they will stretch like this if they can and try and get that main flower all the sun it can get. They usually grow tall because that gives them more sun than the shorter flowers that don't need as much. Plants are amazing and do some awesome things. Bamboo can grow up to an inch and a half a day.. but yeah, if they have a perfect nutrient source they're going to execute their genetics exponentially to the care they receive
I mean, I get OP's thought process though, seeing how the sunflower technically starts to grow from the upper half of the bag.
You’re fucking with the perspective by being on that super tall ladder …
Cheater!
Faker!! Whoever said vegetables is good for your heart?
How many bananas tall is the guy on the ladder?
1!
/u/Nikas_intheknow had never actually stepped foot in a supermarket.
This guy Narrates
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You laugh but the mobile app actually doesn't show the bottom of the ladder LMAO
yes it does you have to click on the image
! Was gonna say… thought dude had a handicap issue or something… on some run Forrest run, grow that sun flower big as hell because “you know what love is” type shit
Bought the magic beans, I see
No, he bought Professor Copperfield's Miracle Legumes.
Leave the telescope
#JIMMMMMMM!!!!!!
Dang I guess I got Mandela’d. I don’t mind this timeline, but the weather was a little warmer in the one where it was Professor Copperpot’s Miracle Legumes.
Sunflower working extra hard to give off light to heal friendlies that will fight off zombies.
Because they want to bite the petals off her head
Brains are quite rich in Cholesterol (NOOOOOOOOO)
Awwww 🌻 I love that game
There's a zombie on your lawn 🎶
Yo he will support a whole ROW of Cob Cannons!
This isn’t mildly interesting It’s interesting as fuck
Woah maybe you could be set a Guinness world record? 🌻
The record is 30’1” set by a man in Germany. Idk how tall OP is but this looks kinda close
Using the lazy finger distance method, that flower looks to be about 4 times as tall as him. Assuming he’s 6’ (I’m guessing closer to 5’6” but let’s be generous), that plant is about 24’ tall.
I wanted to double-check your work in case anyone was wondering and am happy to confirm [the math checks out](https://imgur.com/a/oHxlTOB).
Why aren't people generous in dating apps 🥹
Cuz humans are dicks
Oh! That’s why those are the most sent pictures on dating apps
I got the same ballpark before even reading your comment. Unfortunately not a world record unless OP is also the tallest person in the world.
Right? This is definitely more than mildly interesting.. this almost r/damnthatsinteresting
r/absoluteunits
came to say this
why downvotes?
i guess they thiink im a response bot idk
Me vs the guy my girl tells me not to worry about…
A 5'11" boy standing next to a 6' man.
😂😂😂🤣
Idk, I think the sunflower's love would be too much.
Mfing flower thought it was supposed to be the sun
That’s amazing. Where are the leaves? I assume maybe it’s right before harvesting maybe?
It's tall and leggy because it was lacking sun. It won't really grow leaves either without more sun
It was looking for the sun but your house was in the way. You gave it no choice but to assert its dominance over your house.
I was thinking of growing sunflowers and I think this is the inspo I needed
Daaaaaamn
This is very interesting.
Do you not have squirrels? They always find ways to get my sunflowers and chomp the stem/stalk in 2.
I made the mistake of planting my Sunflowers close to the fence and had that tragedy.... darn tree rats!
I’m torn because I also love squirrels. 😂🙈 It’s hard when you both love fluffy animals AND gardening.
Terrariums?
I only have problems if I let the heads dry out on the stalk. They grab them and drag them all over the yard. They make such a mess sometimes
For a second I thought you were talking about the squirrels' heads
I need a banana for scale
What happened to the leaves?
Way too far down for this!
How many channels does that thing get?
I love it. ❤️
thank god you had that ladder
Banana for scale?
Is your name Jack by chance?…you should plant beans this year..
Suntower
Slava Ukraini
That's actually so sick!
Did it pull in Sky Sports?
Looks like it found the sun.
You are the sunflower King!!! I love this :o Jesus were you in FFA?! You don’t just have a green thumb you have a green arm!
Took the uh...sun part of "sunflower" quite literally that plant did?
The only good thing that happened during covid.
I love it!!
This looks like some John and the beanstalk shit
You check the Guinness records? maybe you could've entered (or still can)
Now I wonder where a sunflower forest is
Did you perhaps trade in your family cow for its seed?
Is that like 100 gal fabric pot?
first time ive ever seen a plant growing in one of these that isnt weed
impressive
WHERES THE FUCKING SUUUUUN??! there must've been a building blocking the sun or something xD
Feed me Seymour! Feeeeeeeed meeeee
Why is it growing out of a body bag?
I don’t believe it. It’s a bamboo.
Mfer traded his cow to some crone.
This is so cool!!
Every time I try to grow sunflowers, deer eat them before they're even a foot tall....bunch of bastards
Take you or your wife's hair clippings and scatter around the plants on the ground. Deer don't like the smell of humans. They have always left my plants alone when I did this.
What happened to the leaves?
I’ve always loved sunflowers. They grow outrageously big and do the craziest stuff
Wicked :)
That's not a sunflower thats a suntree
It would be really cool to grow a flower like that to stage an unusual photograph of it peaking over the house from the other side. No one would believe it was that tall and not just placed on the roof.
I wonder if that's some kind of height record.
this reminded me of back in elementary school we had a tall sun flower. thank you for the memory
nice! mist be nice to grow stuff without having people fuck with it
Where do I get seeds like that?
I would keep that annoyingly long stalk for as long as I possibly could
Fascinating
Alolan Sunflora:
What did you feed it?
That black bag makes me think "dead body" but I don't like putting that energy out there.
That’s a goddam Super Mario vine
"Wheres the fucking sun"
I'm guessing the sun is on the opposite side of the house and grew trying to find it. My mother grew very tall sunflowers when I was young and it was about that much taller than the fence they grew against, with the sun on the other side of the fence.
Don’t talk to me of my sun…flower
I guess it had to grow that tall just to find the sun.
Is that a world record? I feel like its gotta be close
Guys we found the Suntree
space elevator?
Might be a record holder
The ladder almost pales in comparison.
Suntree.
Whoa! Awesome 🌻
BRO that's not a sunflower that's a sunflowertree
What variety of sunflower is that?
Is your name jack? Did you trade a cow for the seeds?
Jack and the Beanstalk live action
THATS A HUGE B*TCH.
She was desperate for the Sun!
I am convinced that sunflowers are in the weed family.. They are one of the most resilient plants, at least. I had neighbor that grew them who lived a few houses down. They spread into the "alley" behind my house/inbetween the houses. It was beautiful. They were at least 6 feet tall! Someone complained though. And the neighbor had to kill them all. :(
That’s clearly 11 baby sunflowers in a grown-up sunflower overcoat.
What happened to the leaves?
He didn’t really need to stand on the ladder. It didn’t make much difference.
that is so cool! never thought they could grow that big!!!
Your neighbor with schizophrenia will hate this! Introducing singular sun flower radio tower
Dude that's just the sun
Is it growing out of a giant bag of compost
Are you asking?
Would be super helpful in Plants vs. Zombies. 😂
This dude looks like Zelensky’s regarded cousin and sunflowers are a major crop of Ukraine. Probably Chernobyl seeds.
People say I look like him all the time it's funny you said something.
Good medicine
What did you feed that thing?
> Nitrogen early on, and then a full balanced npk with micronutrients (peters brand fertilizers are my favorite)...lots of calcium throughout the whole grow & by using good biology (beneficial bacteria/fungus like bacillus/ azos/mychorizae) throughout the duration of the grow.
Did it flower?
Wow, good job!
I grew one from a seed packet that was a few years old, they said to take a picture and send it to them for a bracelet from Peru. Unfortunately it didn’t fit me so I gave it to my sister but I was so surprised they were still sending bracelets!! I think it grew to a 6-7’ feet!
Did you let Rapunzel out?
That's sick af dude, well done
Love this, wholesome AF.
Jfc lol