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  Posted by mikep (U13885942) on Sunday, 8th August 2010

  Help
  My grand-daughter has planted 3 sunflower seeds - 2 have grown normally - one head per plant, the other has 5 heads!
  I have googled and checked, all I can find is that sunflowers usually only have one head
  Has anyone else come across this'multi head' sunflower?

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  Posted by John Moodie (U14353581) on Sunday, 8th August 2010

  Hi mike, some are single stem and single headed and some are not. I use to grow the multi headed because of the different colours. Every year wind storms would rip the stems off the plants no matter how well I tied them up. This year is only single stem and head. Unfortunately I can't find a single stem sunflower with a flower colour other than yellow.

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  Posted by Trillium (U2170869) on Sunday, 8th August 2010

  Try 'Earthwalker'. I bought the seeds from Chilterns. Although there are some side buds, they've reached a good height - 6foot or so and the central flower is large. I could pinch out the side shoots if I wanted to keep them single. There's a picture on the Â鶹Éç Gardening home page under Desktop calender. Pretty sure it's one of mine, as it happens!

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  Posted by John Moodie (U14353581) on Sunday, 8th August 2010

  Hi Trillium, thanks for the solution. I like Earthwalker, grew them one year but of course I didn't think to pinch the side shoots. This year I just let sunflowers from scattered bird seed grow up. They're always tall with a single stem. Back to various coloured sunflowers next year.

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  Posted by Rainjustlearning (U12861332) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  I have a 'Black Magic' sunflower and one of them has 4 heads on guess it's nice that way, as one head dies another opens.
  
  Rain

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