OMG! My sunflower plant is now 28 " in height. I'm so happy on how it progressed slowly but surely and how these sunflowers passed the test of time, the ever changing weather temperature from hot heatwave at daytime to freezing cold at night. To be exact, the sunflower plants are now age 2 months & 9 days (from the time of planting of seeds direct to the soil).
The other variety (Large Russian is now 32 inches in height). Some of the plants are not as big as the other ones because of certain problems: snails and slugs, ants, and what other could be happening down to its roots? The winds are also a problem to some of these sunflowers that I supported the thin stemmed plants with bamboo sticks.
The stem is much fatter in this variety of sunflower compared with the rest of the other variety which are thinner. Wrap-around the measuring tape to the stem and it measures 1 inch.
The leaves are getting wider and bigger and I measured the largest leaf which measures up to 8 " (inches). Nine (9) inches if you'll measure the left and right side of the leaf. Wow! Of course the stems, the leaves, and everything in it will grow up to its right measurement at the right time, at the right stage. It will take time for sunflowers of this variety to reach its true, real height of 12 ft. and I can't wait.
I know, patience is a virtue and some people will just buy already made-up flowers or sunflowers that bloomed its flowers or the flowers itself. Why the long wait, right?
Maybe my obsession is about knowing whether the label in its package will lead up to expectation or maybe I'm being a botanist and the long progression or process of looking after a sunflower will yield to something else. lol. Remember, BOTANY is the scientific study of plants. Yeah, they have certain mundane attitude and incredible weird behaviour just like humans.
Many humans believe in patience. Waiting to get the final result without the need to rush. There is excitement in waiting.
You can do that your own baby if you don't have a plant to care for.
So what really happened to the pink clematis? The pink clematis has reached its point of flowering from 12 flowers to 34 flowers. This clematis seems not good at climbing up the strings provided for its tendrils. Their tendrils loop around each other suffocating the main frame or main stem. I have to manually help its tendril to loop in another string. I provided a wigwam frame for it. Later had a kite frame for it to grow up and maybe they can fly. Once again the tendrils loop around themselves. Weird! Stubborn kids!
The violet clematis has a different structure that support its growth. An arbor was provided for this clematis plant. The arbor is their "condominium." While the pink clematis had its 12 flowers, the violet has no other movements of happenings in its stage of life, until suddenly 58 buds sprout out all at once and bloomed simultaneously with its beautiful, bright violet flowers. As of today, the violet clematis has reached and bloomed up to 64 flowers and there are few buds still about to bloom.
Then the tendrils came alive like as if they are tentacles of an octopus. The strings provided for the tendrils were then used by this plant as you can see from the photo. The tendril grows and crawls 4 inches per day. Wow! The incredible tendril looks like "fantastic beast." Too many tendrils in this violet clematis and some of them are out from the arbor and shooting upward.
Of course they received the same amount of water, sunlight, miracle grow, and same amount of care.
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