Grow Giant Sunflowers | Everything You Need To Know. Gardening Tips and Tricks

We attempted to take you along as we grow GIANT sunflowers. We had some pretty great results… we share ALL our best tips and tricks in one short video from begining the season to the end…. so let’s check them out!

From our “Thou Shalt Garden” Series, we take reference from God’s conversation with Adam when He told Him in Genesis 2:15 to take care of the Garden– what can we learn about God form gardening?

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Speaker: Joshua Porter from Bold Follower/Salvation To The Nations
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so what does it take to grow a giant [Music] sunflower what’s up everybody my name is Joshua and we’re a bold follower here to share with you some gardening tips sunflowers are one of my favorite things to grow because they look phenomenal they’re easy to grow and they’ve got a lot of yield at Harvest with all the seeds and you can eat the whole thing I don’t have a recommendation of which variety is best because it really just depends on a lot of different factors but for the giant sunflowers we through this season we did six different varieties which was Russian Mammoth Titan sunzilla Mongolian giant American Giant and K what you need to do is plant a couple in the ground once the soil is 50° and once they’re a few inches tall remove all but the biggest ones make sure they have plenty of space and good soil the more space and the better the soil the bigger the flow and though they can survive in pretty much anything I cannot stress how important and crucial it is to have ample space and great soil with good amendments in it like compost and all that once they’re planted you only have to water when the top level is dry so it depends on your environment but I do it maybe every other day and that’s it that’s all you really have to do I told you sun flowers are easy but if you want some other tips to help I’ve got seven of those so let’s check them out tip number one plant them directly in the ground you can seeds start um but you’re better off planting directly into the ground because of the incredibly fast deep moving tap rout even though these are so small on top the tap rot goes way longer than the pot already that’s nuts tip number two you might think it’s don’t underwater but it’s actually don’t overwater now as gardeners sometimes we love our plants so much that we give them too much of a good thing and too much of a good thing is often a bad thing see often times when we see an issue with the plant we think oh the solution is always to give it more water when in reality that’s not good in fact the roots are like sponges but they can’t stop soaking in water so it can create fungus infections and a lot of other issues if it has too much water this is kind of an extreme example of getting too much water cuz it’s been raining like crazy but if you were to see this plant you’d probably think it needs more water when in reality no no no no no you need to chill out with the water for a couple days and watch it pop right back up [Music] tip number three Stak as needed the bigger problem you’re going to find is trying to find something that you can stake them with because they grow so tall something tall enough but it doesn’t block the sun you also may may have to stake the top of the flower as well because once it blooms that flower head will take the whole plant down with it bending over tip number four research what types of plants like to eat and what infections are common you got to protect your sunflowers otherwise they’re going to get eaten up like this guy there are some things you can spray on the leaves to protect them from the bugs and then as far as the critters you can either elevate it in an elevated um garden bed or sometimes you can put chicken wire around to protect it tip number five accept casualties this is a learning curve for all of us so today is a sad day for this sunflower this giant sunflower because we’re going to actually have to cut it down see we tried everything we could to make it come back to life it had some leaves that were doing this turning black and um even removing some of the leaves even changing and adjusting the soil and adding extra fertilizer even spraying the plant with certain medicine nothing helped so we ended up having to get rid of it because if you don’t get rid of these plants that are sickly and have diseases they could spread to the whole group so today we’re going to get rid of that tip number six prune your sunflower now some people don’t prune their sunflowers at all and you can do that or if you want to prune some people like to prune the bottom here any of the bottom leaves that are um kind of smaller or starting to wither you can get rid of those some people actually prune a bunch of the bottom leaves um and they claim that it puts more energy into the flower up there you can also prune off any suckers if you only want one flower head that’s supposedly the way to make the one the bigger rather than have a bunch of different flower heads um so the suckers kind of look like this it’s really anything coming off of where the leaf is coming out so if the leaf is coming out there there shouldn’t be three so this middle one is a sucker you can cut that one off if you don’t want an extra flow growing to which you can replant in the ground I did have some dye on me but the ones that did grow were kind of mutants with short stocks and really big flowerheads and final tip number seven have fun and look for some surprises this one has a mutation if you want to come in close and look at it see this is called a Fascination it’s when a flower grows two flowers in the same spot as you can tell it has the regular ring of petals and the regular um head but then you have this which is what looks to be a second sunflower trying to grow in the middle of the first these mutations or Fascinations are super rare but they are super cool what do you think yeah yeah she says yeah so at the end of the season we found out that most of them took just about 90 days or 3 months to grow but then it was another 2 to 3 weeks until those seeds within the flower head fully matured and was able to be harvested hence the change of scenery so our final official measurements of the biggest and largest for this season was the biggest Leaf ended up being 18 in across and the biggest flower head with petals included was about 15 in and the biggest flower head with the seeds fully developed was 16 and2 in across and weighed almost 9 lb the thickest stock was about 2 and A4 in thick or 6 and A4 in Ines around and the biggest stock grew to be 12T 2 of the varieties the Titan and the mammoth were overall the biggest and with very identical measurements so that’s our video we hope that you guys enjoyed it um you can learn a lot about God from gardening there’s a lot of Parables a lot of stories within the Bible that talk about gardening to some effect so once we understand some of these things we can understand a little bit more of Jesus’s words anyway I hope you guys are blessed hope you guys have a great season and good luck growing your own sunflowers let me know how it is is down in the comments peace