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Offline franksolich

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gardening primitive plants a sunflower
« on: August 11, 2008, 04:05:40 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=246x9880

Okay, in keeping with my policy of not making fun of primitives in the gardening forum, I offer:

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K8-EEE  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-11-08 01:21 PM
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Coolest Sunflower
   
I planted yellow and red sunflowers this year -- but the coolest one turned out to be a little of both!

After which a pretty good photograph of a really odd sunflower; it's worth clicking on the link above to see.

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flying_wahini  Donating Member  (690 posts) Mon Aug-11-08 04:00 PM
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1. I love it! How tall is it?
   
Is it really a hybrid of what you planted?

Now, franksolich is flummoxed.

Nebraska is not Kansas, but Nebraska is right there on top of Kansas.

And so Nebraska gets an overflow of sunflowers from Kansas.

franksolich has grown up around sunflowers all his life.

However, franksolich has never in his life seen a red sunflower.

Is this some sort of weird genetic mutation?
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Re: gardening primitive plants a sunflower
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2008, 04:28:27 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 11, 2008, 04:05:40 PM
   

Now, franksolich is flummoxed.

Nebraska is not Kansas, but Nebraska is right there on top of Kansas.

And so Nebraska gets an overflow of sunflowers from Kansas.

franksolich has grown up around sunflowers all his life.

However, franksolich has never in his life seen a red sunflower.

Is this some sort of weird genetic mutation?

It is a crossbreed of several varieties of sunflowers. More for the family flower garden than wide ranging agricultural production.

Because of the growing season required for sunflowers and the price of wheat ,barley and corn being what it is now I suspect Sunflower acreage in ND,SD Neb and Kansas to substancial decline.
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Re: gardening primitive plants a sunflower
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 10:05:55 PM »
There are a lot of varieties.   I love sunflowers.   My son's little pre school sunflower growing project, started our interest in gardening.   When we were looking for seeds we found this site..

http://gurneys.com/search.asp?ss=sunflowers&x=0&y=0

Tim had a few learning issues and one of them was understanding time.   His therapists and I got the idea of planting a garden and letting him see how things changed over time.   It was all really cool. 

We always plant sunflowers because they are the little guy's favorite.   This year, we had tomatoes, sunflowers, green beans, green peppers, purple cabbage, and cucumbers. 

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