Last year was our first foray into growing sun flowers. All we did was buy a couple different varieties of seeds at Bi-Mart, and just planted them in the ground out front. Even though we started rather late in the season, we still had excellent results and plenty of seeds.
This year, I am taking this a little more methodically and even somewhat planning out our strategies (just planning in the head, nothing really written down.)
Already, we have some clusters of sun flower wildlings growing out there now, which I am doing my best to keep moist. We also have a dozen in dirt in an egg carton, which we are just keeping out front as well, for natural sunlight. We have one being kept inside at the moment that was germinated in a cup (can't remember if it was in dirt or just in a cup of water). It had a bit of a mishap when it was being transplanted into a larger cup, and almost broke in two. Remarkably, it survived, and is recovering quite well. I think this was one of the Sky Scrapers, so when it is ready to be planted out front, it will go along one of the tall fences, either the one separating the front yard from the back yard, or the fence between us and the neighbors. And we are naming this one, and are hoping to get more seeds off it this year, as its recovery means it likely has some hardiness genetics we want to preserve. This one is now known as Phoenixblume; what with it coming back from the dead like it did.
Lastly, this grow journal is also going to include a time lapse of this section of the yard to show the sun flowers growing up from seedlings to full fledged flowers, to what I call the Winterblumes (just the creepy dead husks of the plants in the Fall, which will then get taken down in the Winter). This little time lapse video will be a single shot per day (which started today). Just not sure how many seconds per frame to do. Will experiment with that as I go along, though thinking perhaps 3 seconds per shot at 30fps.
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