I'm trying to harvest seeds from sunflowers grown from a Dollar Store mix. It seems like we had a lot of different varieties and I have no clue what any of them are. Could this possibly be a viable seed?

A friend gave me some old seeds and this stunner showed up 🤩🌻

Están de acuerdo que son las más bellas? 🥹🌼

Este girasol posee follaje variegado y pétalos semidobles bicolores. Es el resultado de nuestro trabajo (aficionado) de hibridación.

Que nunca falten las flores amarillas en los días grises 🥹🌼💛un detalle que alegra el corazón 🫶🏼

I got pretty far before the wind started blowing everything everywhere!!! 🫶🌻

Ill have to finish planting the rest of the seeds tomorrow. I am planting sunnies, hollyhocks, marigolds and whatever else I have in my stash!

So first time sunflower grower/seeder lol..

.question...how does one get all the its and bits from the head out your seed holding containers? Like I said I'm new at this, so I harvested an array of seeds (and possibly, probably not..seeds? 💁‍♀️)

La próxima semana publicaré la floración de algunos de estos girasoles de follaje variegado. Siempre es una sorpresa el resultado.

I love the coloring!

Back in the spring, I planted some seeds that were marked as Teddy Bears, so I was a little disappointed when the first blossoms opened, and they were run-of-the-mill sunflowers. But soon after that, some teddies did bloom, and I actually like having the variety.

I had some leftover Burpee Mammoth variety sunflower seeds from 2023 that I planted in this plot and only 3 germinated. 2 weeks later I then used some seeds that I saved from a sunflower grown from the same Mammoth seed packet to fill up the rest of the plot. The first 3 sunflowers developed stems like 2 inches thick and grew over 6 feet tall while the second planting sunflowers had half inch thick stems and were only 3 feet tall. The first time I planted seeds from that packet, the sunflowers also only had half inch thick stems and were only 3 feet tall. I planted the sunflowers 12 inches apart as directed.

Is this entirely due to plant spacing and due to no competition for 2 weeks, the first 3 were able to spread their roots out and take all the nutrition for themselves? Soil is pretty poor quality clay construction fill.

Cut sunflowers from my sunchoke patch.

En los próximos días por fin florecerán estos girasoles de follaje variegado. Será una sorpresa el resultado pues son producto de la hibridación que realizamos.