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I have some sunflowers in my garden that have bloomed. No new ones are coming on, if I cut the old blooms off will new ones come on or is this all of the blooms I will get. I used by 53 Allis B to lay off the rows. Thanks Amo
 
It depends what type of sunflowers they are. Some make one big flower and that is it, some make a bunch of smaller ones over time.
Zach
 
Question about sunflowers. Years ago I came upon an irrigated field of them near Lubbock, TX. They were 6+ feet tall and had a seed pod probably 8-10 inches.

Locally is a field of them too and they are only about 3' high and seed pod about 4-6". Obviously planed and cultivated; rains have been adequate this year.

Two questions:

1. I guess there are several kinds of commercial seeds besides the volunteer that help themselves to your farm land.

2. How do you harvest them? The short ones have turned their heads down, like somebody in sorrow and I guess are waiting to be harvested after they dry out. Do you combine them? If you do, the seeds are large and pretty light. Seems it would be difficult for the combine to separate the crop from the chaff.

Mark
 
There are two kinds. An oil seed and an edible kind. There was a guy here who grew a lot of them for a while. He harvested those with a New Idea Uni combine. Used the grain head. He built row dividers out of plywood and bolted them to the underside of the cutterbar.

There are sunflower heads too,look like corn heads but they cut the plants off.
 
We were "figurin" that they would be combined. Hear you on the ones that make sunflower oil and those that make bird seed. Don't know which is which but bet the big ones are for seeds.

Thanks,
Mark
 
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