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Please help, have I killed my sunflowers?
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Hi everyone, gravel area lady here lol..
im checking in - in a crisis
so this morning was a particularly bad one with my autistic children before school, and in attempt to de-stress and get myself out of a dark hole after they left I decided to sort out our sunflowers… we all planted 3 each in large pots together and was going to race who’s would grow the biggest.
Well seeing them the past week I realised it was probably a mistake planting 3 together in one pot each as they where getting crowded. So this morning on impulse I went out and attempted to seperate them, I didn’t realise how much root there would be and think I lost some in the process.. 3 hours later they are flopping about all over the place so I’ve attempted to hold them up with pencils and string. All the plant leaves have gone slightly floppy except my eldest ones … I’m devastated - have I killed them? Or will they recover ;_;
im checking in - in a crisis
so this morning was a particularly bad one with my autistic children before school, and in attempt to de-stress and get myself out of a dark hole after they left I decided to sort out our sunflowers… we all planted 3 each in large pots together and was going to race who’s would grow the biggest.
Well seeing them the past week I realised it was probably a mistake planting 3 together in one pot each as they where getting crowded. So this morning on impulse I went out and attempted to seperate them, I didn’t realise how much root there would be and think I lost some in the process.. 3 hours later they are flopping about all over the place so I’ve attempted to hold them up with pencils and string. All the plant leaves have gone slightly floppy except my eldest ones … I’m devastated - have I killed them? Or will they recover ;_;
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Some canes will do, and it's better to have bigger ones [ie 6 foot] to put in now, to avoid replacing any smaller ones as the plants grow. The alternative is some wires along the fence, but that probably isn't ideal as they're a bit far away from the fence, and the gaps may be too big to be successful as the plants mature.
I think you'll find those containers will be too small for two plants in each though, so they may struggle.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
In the sticks near Peterborough
Are they going to be in the sun all day? If so it might help if you can rig up a bit of shade for them … but they don’t look as bad as I’d expected.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I’ve literally just had a breakdown cry over these sunflowers and the dread of aftermath from my youngest who’s 9 (complex behavioural / emotional difficulties )
I really hope they can recover I feel so stupid now for even attempting to seperate them.
I don’t know if I dare try seperate the 2 in the round pots into there own pots after this - there was 3 in each before.. perhaps they would of been okay just a little squished if I had of left them.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you have any seed left, it might even be worth sowing those too.
I think you could probably try separating a few and see how it goes, but it depends on how brave you're feeling! If you had some larger pots, it would be easier to just get them into those. That would give them plenty of room.
I don't know what the others think about that? I've only ever grown them in the ground. I think you've done a good job of splitting them up though.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
( I work with children both with and without SEN, so understand to some degree why your worried.) 🌻
Failure is always an option.