Hello everyone.

Just some thoughts dealing with the big sunflowers. First is a mental note. Sunflower heads face east and only east. Except some smaller ones. The 6'-12' tall flowers only face east.

Mental note #2. Don't plant them with a fence directly east of the flowers. They end facing the fence when they bloom. Then after a week, the pedals shrink up and the seeds come in. The heads point straight down.

In about 2 weeks the seeds will be ready. The rear of the flower head is beginning to turn yellow. Once it turns brown, the head is getting cut off. I have a mesh bag on the biggest flower head. Thinking it was a squirrel tearing up the flower. It wasn't. The wind was banging the flower against the fence. The plant corrected itself and it bent the flower away from the fence.

That's all for now according to wide world of mammoth sunflowers...