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Sun, Jun 12, 11 at 12:19
| Hi I have been growing sunflowers for a few years now and last year I saved my seeds from my russian mammoth sunflowers. They may have been crossed with local sunflowers. This spring One sunflower seedling showed purple stems a characteristic that i have seen before but it usually fades.
originally the whole stem was completly purple
leaf
flower bud |
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| interesting.... it should be a dark colored one... |
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| You had better keep us posted on this plant! I'm so curious about it. |
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- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 13, 11 at 20:54
| I dont know too much about sunflowers, but I do know that there are some with darker colors. I think thats what you have in that pic! Looking forward to seeing what you have! |
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- Posted by statenislandpalm7a 7a (My Page) on Mon, Jun 13, 11 at 21:27
| Once it flowers I will post pics. I Know there are different color sunflowers. I found a pic of one with all purple petals maybe that what I will get |
Here is a link that might be useful: flower
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Tue, Jun 21, 11 at 11:30
| Would love to see how this flower looks now... |
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- Posted by albert_135 Sunset 2 or 3 (My Page) on Tue, Jun 21, 11 at 15:42
| Curious, did you have a frost or near frost several days before the pictures with the purple were taken? |
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- Posted by statenislandpalm7a NYC (My Page) on Tue, Jun 28, 11 at 15:56
| albert no there was no frost. I know cold can cause some purple in plants but its been 80 or above for most of the past month and its still purple. It flowered
I think it is a hybrid between velvet queen a variety that is short branching and has brown flowers and Russian mammoth a tall variety that I grew last year and from which I collected seeds from. the result was a tall, branching, 2 color sunflower. |
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- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Tue, Jun 28, 11 at 18:35
| Wow, beautiful colors! I really do love the look of sunflowers! |
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- Posted by statenislandpalm7a NYC (My Page) on Tue, Jun 28, 11 at 19:52
| Thanks alex. It has multiple heads too so it will keep blooming most of the summer |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Jun 29, 11 at 9:16
| What a beauty! Thanks for the pic. |
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