Sprouting Sunflower Greens
Hi
I have just set a load of 'shelled' sunflower seeds in my automatic sprouter, with the hope of growing sunflower greens. I have just been reading around on the net and a few sites have said that 'unshelled' seeds must be used to grow sunflower greens, whereas the shelled variety are only good for sunflower sprouts. Now, my thoughts would be that, if a seed can sprout, it can turn into the full plant....right?
Being a sprouting novice, I wondered if anyone has any experience trying to grow sunflower greens from the shelled seeds and whether it was successful.
Really appreciate any help here :-)
Dale
I have just set a load of 'shelled' sunflower seeds in my automatic sprouter, with the hope of growing sunflower greens. I have just been reading around on the net and a few sites have said that 'unshelled' seeds must be used to grow sunflower greens, whereas the shelled variety are only good for sunflower sprouts. Now, my thoughts would be that, if a seed can sprout, it can turn into the full plant....right?
Being a sprouting novice, I wondered if anyone has any experience trying to grow sunflower greens from the shelled seeds and whether it was successful.
Really appreciate any help here :-)
Dale
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Permalink Reply by Dale Pinnock on -
Thanks Mariam - much love :-)
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Permalink Reply by Mariam on -
Make sure they're the black oil ones, for growing your sunflower greens :)
One of my favorite sprouts, which I am currently growing
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on -
Oh, thank you for the reminder. Going to get some sprouts going right now!
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Permalink Reply by Mike Snyder on -
To make sunflower greens, only use the sunflower seeds with the shell on, the unhulled.
I soak the shelled / hulled sunflower seeds, but I don't grow them into lettuce.
Sunflower Greens:
http://www.sproutpeople.com/seed/sunflowergreens.html
Hulled Sunflower seeds:
http://www.sproutpeople.com/seed/sunny.html
"Hulled Sunflowers will NEVER grow long edible sprouts. We stop sprouting before any root appears - while they are Soaks."
Mike, TheRawDiet.com
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