Starting sunflowers indoors?
Tammy
No real trick to it, actually they start so easy inside or out they are of my
favorite annuals. I'm sure if you can start herbs and veggies inside you'll have
no problems.
I stick them in peat pots then just keep them moist and under a grow light and
in no time at all you'll have tons of sunny yellow blooms!
Good Luck!
Tammy in Texas
Geode32 wrote:
> I am thinking about getting a head start on sunflowers this year. I live in
> northern Colorado (zone 5, I think). Has anyone had experiecne starting
> sunflowers inside? I have started herbs and vegetables inside, but are there
> any tricks to growing suflowers inside? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Rob
Rev Chuck
Geode32 wrote:
>
> I am thinking about getting a head start on sunflowers this year. I live in
> northern Colorado (zone 5, I think). Has anyone had experiecne starting
> sunflowers inside? I have started herbs and vegetables inside, but are there
> any tricks to growing suflowers inside? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Rob
Put soil in peat pot, put seed in soil. Water. Nothing to it.
They're somewhat transplant sensitive, very easily shocked. Waxed
paper drinking cups are not ideal, since its easy to bruise the roots
while stripping off the cup. Recycled "pots" made from rolled up
sheets of newspaper will work, since they'll fall apart almost as
soon as they're buried.
Rev Chuck
BeeCrofter wrote:
>
> >
> >They're somewhat transplant sensitive, very easily shocked. Waxed
>
> When volunteer sunflowers are a foot or so tall I pull them straight up with a
> clod of dirt and transplant them into a vacant lot stepping on the dirt clod to
> pack them in.
> My guess is a 95% success rate in moist soil.
Whenever I've thinned seedlings in the past, I've always tried to transplant
the pulled plants to even out the row. Success rate is about zero percent.
Works better if I plant three or four seeds per each location and just discard
the pulled seedlings.
Geode32
BeeCrofter
Dana Parker
I'm also in Zone 5, Colorado. In my experience, there's not much to be
gained from starting sunflowers inside. They'll sprout just fine, but
they get leggy quickly even under fluorescent lights, and then they stop
growing temporarily when you set them out, from transplant shock. Last
year I started some inside early and some outside later and it was
impossible to tell which was which. On the other hand, some of the ones
I planted from seed in aother area didn't come up at all - birds got
'em? YMMV.
jiva
On 9 Apr 1998 01:16:22 GMT, geo...@aol.com (Geode32) wrote:
>I am thinking about getting a head start on sunflowers this year. I live in
>northern Colorado (zone 5, I think). Has anyone had experiecne starting
>sunflowers inside? I have started herbs and vegetables inside, but are there
>any tricks to growing suflowers inside? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
Very loose (sandy) soil and yogurt cups have worked fine for me.
Develops a great root system ... but they do take off so don't
let them get root bound.
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I always start sunflowers inside in small pots. NEVER had a problem
transplanting them.
Tom
In article <352BBE...@erolls.com>, Rev Chuck <cd...@erolls.com> wrote:
>Whenever I've thinned seedlings in the past, I've always tried to transplant
>the pulled plants to even out the row. Success rate is about zero percent.
>Works better if I plant three or four seeds per each location and just discard
>the pulled seedlings.
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Rev Chuck wrote:
>
> Put soil in peat pot, put seed in soil. Water. Nothing to it.
>
> while stripping off the cup. Recycled "pots" made from rolled up
> sheets of newspaper will work, since they'll fall apart almost as
> soon as they're buried.
I have been growing the pollenless hybrid sunflowers for cut flowers for
the past couple of years. Due to the cost of the seed ($10-$50 per
ounce) I have been starting the seed in individual cells and
transplanting them into the field. I have had no problems doing this and
no indication of transplant shock. The only problem is that deer like
the flower buds on the hybrid plants since they're at deer chewing
height. The tall sunflowers probably wouldn't have that problem.
For continuous cut flower production, I plant sunflowers every week to
10 days.
Peat pots or newspaper pots will work fine. Waxed paper cups will work
if you punch a hole in the bottom for drainage. The plastic cell packs
that I use are cheaper for me since they're reusable for a few years.
JACK A BERKOWITZ
I planted sunflowers in little six packs--actually bought the seeds
separately and planted them indoors under florescent lights in burpee seed
and start kits. The sunflower seeds were Moonwalker and Lemon Queen--both
ornamental varieties. I had excellent success with these. When they were
outgrowing the sixpacks, I transplanted to quart size pots and then into
the ground. They are easy to grow.
Geode32 wrote in message
<199804090116...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
>I am thinking about getting a head start on sunflowers this year. I live
in
>northern Colorado (zone 5, I think). Has anyone had experiecne starting
>sunflowers inside? I have started herbs and vegetables inside, but are
there
>any tricks to growing suflowers inside? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
>Rob
Dave & Kat
I started my sunflower seeds in a little terra cotta pot in my office
window. I used half a package of seeds and planted them in a small
circle with reg. potting soil. I transplanted them a few weeks ago and
they are doing great, and growing strong! I water them with a light
spray everyday! Good luck with yours! Try it, what can you lose!
Kat
Connecticut