Sunflower growing question?
Question:I am growing a sunflower and it seems to be growing multiple heads on its lower leaves. I picked a few of them off. Should I pick the rest off. I think I remember my mom doing that with a tomato plant saying that it make the rest of the plant grow stronger.
Answers:
Some sunflowers branch out with multiple blooms. Other varieties just have one big flower. I guess you are not hurting the flower by removing the side blooms, but because it is a multi-bloom type you are probably not helping it to make one enormous flower either. Why not just enjoy as many blooms as the plant is willing to make? The plant will live and flower longer, however, if you remove the blooms BEFORE they start to develop seeds. Once a flower has set seeds it believes that it has accomplished its purpose of continuing the species, and then it will begin to die.
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If you have a main flower head on the initial stem, you can remove the other buds and the main flower will be larger. Those smaller buds are suckers in a sense. If you like smaller flowers, then those would be fine to leave grow.
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