Dwarf Sunflower Seeds for Planting

Seeds germinated well. They are so cute. Sunflower heads were ~8 inches in diameter and plants were ~20 inches tall, but I did plant them a bit late in the season. Was a little bit of a learning curve to get them past the seedling stage. I think I was overwatering at first. I seeded them indoors but found that once they had true leaves and placed them outside they really thrived. They definitely prefer the natural light from the sun and lots of it. Most of my plants made one large flower, but I did have one plant with several smaller flowers. Despite other’s reviews of them being some other species, they are still sunflowers. It’s just that when it has multiple blooms, the blooms are much smaller since the energy is divided among multiple flowers instead of just the one. Also, if you plant them in an area that's partly shaded, they will be small. Still sunflowers but mini. I was able to harvest lots of seeds last year and they have been pretty viable for planting this year. Definitely recommend these seeds. Plant them in full sun and they'll do great.

Gorgeous sunflowers! Taller than expected and every seed planted grew!

This took about two months to bloom.A tip: space them out about forearm length.. the leaves are pretty big & good aeration would help prevent any kind of disease from humidity. (I’m in the South so it’s hot and humid).Germination was better than I expected so I ended up with over a dozen sunflower seedlings. Even the smaller seeds had good germination and grew into healthy plants. I space them about 8-10 inches and with that amount of space it grew close to 5 feet. Maybe 4 and a half feet. The closer they are (I have some even closer in another flower bed) the shorter they turn out to be.It’s the beginning of June so I’ll be planting a dozen more for an August harvest!!Beautiful in a vase. (Cut about forearm length and remove all but the first 2-3 sets of leaves at the top by the blossom. Also, harvest when the flower head is still closed with maybe a couple of petals unfurling to get a longer vase life. They will bloom fully in the vase.)

I purchased these seeds ( dwarf sunflower seeds ) at the same time that I purchased four other varieties. I have been gardening for almost 40 years. I followed the instructions for planting and nothing happened thinking it was something I may have done. I replanted them. I did not get one seed to germinate. So then I soaked some seeds overnight put them on a wet paper towel slid them into a Ziploc bag and place them outside and still, not one seed germinated, how in the world could I get an entire packet of dwarf sunflower seeds that will not germinate I don’t know. My others are already 10 inches tall.

The germination was 100%. The flowers are beautiful ! The height ranged from 28 inches to 36 inches. Took about 6 weeks for flowers to form. I did start them off indoors and then moved outside. I am in zone 8A. The only reason this did not get 5 stars was I received about 40 seeds. Not 100 seeds as advertised.

Unlike the blue and pink sunflower claims, these came out nice healthy and pretty and the color they were supposed to .

Really easy to grow. 100% germination rate when I pre-soaked them for 6-8 hours. Planted in June and they flowered in August. They’re all around 3-4 feet tall. Just recommend really spacing them out because their leaves get massive and can easily block their neighbors. 1 plant can easily take up 1 sq yard with their leaves. I think the seed packet instructs you to space them 1 foot apart. I did 2 feet apart and still ran into some overcrowding issues.

Handful of seeds were delivered. do not expect to get a lot from this packet, maybe 10ish seeds. the seeds will spread and create more but takes time and you’ll get plenty of sunflower seeds to save or eat. 🤷🏻‍♀️ They did come out super pretty and they did get 2-4 tall!