Sunflowers

[GuestHouse]

Can anybody tell me when is the right time to plant sunflower seeds and where I can get a supply of seeds to plant.

I've noticed sunflowers are in bloom over the winter months in the North of Thailand so I'm assuming the planting time here in Thailand is sometime around August - Can anyone advise?

As for the seeds, I found some in a local gardening store today, but they were Bht25 for a pack of about ten seeds - I have plans to plant about 4 Rai or more of sunflowers if I can get the info and seeds. I reckon I need a small sack full of seeds to cover the area I have in mind.

[WatersEdge]

Promise you won't laugh at me?

I bought seed at Tesco, tossed it in the ground,

and poof, it did wonderful.

I've also done well with Tesco Black Sesame and Peanut.

A little Sunflower seed goes a long way,

so to plant 4 rai a couple of kg will do.

After you grow the first crop,

you will have your own seed,

and enough for others as well.

Sunflower is good because it has no apparent pests.

Nothing will eat the stuff.

My goats grazed all around it,

eating the grass and weeds,

but never touched the sunflower

Take a taste of the leaf and you'll clearly understand.

[Skinny]

I brought some seed from UK and notr one bloody came up could have some thing to do with never got round to planting them

[IsaanAussie]

Sunflowers, I am enormously interested. But in the oil bearing variety not the confection or eating ones. That is the ones with th black seeds not the black and white "Polly want a cracker" sort. The oil yield is great and the residue meal for the pigs. Where can I get these seeds?

By the way, what does a 100 kg parrot say? "Polly want a cracker, NOW"

[rice555]

Hello IA, if you want the superdoper Hybs., there located down where they

grow and have all the big SF fields??

http://www.pacificseeds.com/products/sunflowers/index.htm

Another place is the one listed on a thread:

I got 10kg of sunn hemp seed from them, they may have SF. She sent my order

on the bus, picked it up at the bus terminal here, this week it comes by boat here.

Unlike you, I got seed to eat, Mammoth gray stripe. Just need a few dry

days and maybe I can get the tractor in.

rice555

[IsaanAussie]

Hello IA, if you want the superdoper Hybs., there located down where they

grow and have all the big SF fields??

http://www.pacificse...owers/index.htm

Another place is the one listed on a thread:

http://www.thaivisa....25#entry3880625

I got 10kg of sunn hemp seed from them, they may have SF. She sent my order

on the bus, picked it up at the bus terminal here, this week it comes by boat here.

Unlike you, I got seed to eat, Mammoth gray stripe. Just need a few dry

days and maybe I can get the tractor in.

rice555

Hey Rice,

I contacted Pacific Seeds last year, early. They were going to import oil seed around June, and it would be here on such and such, they would let me know, blah, blah....main customers in Nakorn Sawan. Just another idea ending in smoke and mirrors. I will do it one day when the remaining 7 or 8 hours out of 24 are less cluttered.

Thanks for the thought, been there done that.

IA

[rice555]

Hello IA, sorry to hear that Pacific(US based Co.) service was crap. I was going to contact them about soybeans as that is one of their catalog items.

The SF in the pic. is from the last Ag fair here, I don't know what type they are, I did try to get seed, but couldn't get any info, maybe the next show.

rice555

[IsaanAussie]

Hello IA, sorry to hear that Pacific(US based Co.) service was crap. I was going to contact them about soybeans as that is one of their catalog items.

The SF in the pic. is from the last Ag fair here, I don't know what type they are, I did try to get seed, but couldn't get any info, maybe the next show.

rice555

I have given you the wrong idea, their service was fine. The failing was on my part in just not getting around to it.

[oldestswinger]

IA: I bought a kilo of seeds from Suranaree University of Technology in Korat. If I remember , I paid 50B for the bag.

[IsaanAussie]

IA: I bought a kilo of seeds from Suranaree University of Technology in Korat. If I remember , I paid 50B for the bag.

Really? Oil Seed or Confectionary? Black with white stripe or just Black Seeds? Its the black oil rich ones I want.

IA

[farmerjo]

My wife would like me to have a go growing sunflowers.

Not sure if theres a stable market to sell to around chumphae.

Also unless a rice harvester is capible of harvesting them i think it would be to labour intensive.

Any thoughts on that appreciated.

[oldestswinger]

I bought the black, but they have both

[oldestswinger]

I should have mentioned that they do research on sunflower at SUT

[jubby]

Guesthouse ,

My Wife just got back from the local seed shop. The woman doesn't have stock at the moment. Says people usually plant around December. Could be different down your way but I suspect not.

[GuestHouse]

Guesthouse ,

My Wife just got back from the local seed shop. The woman doesn't have stock at the moment. Says people usually plant around December. Could be different down your way but I suspect not.

Thanks Jubby, that's what I was looking for.