How to grow Sunflowers in the Philippines?

Today, learn how to grow sunflower in the Philippines. I see a flower and it is beautiful. I smell it and it is fragrant. I feel wonderful, because of it’s color. I see a sunflower.

Sunflower is a kind of flower that grows well in the Philippines. In fact there are many sunflower farm that being built around the country. Some of them make a sunflower garden to attract tourist in the area. Farmers or gardeners can grow sunflower but you as an individual can grow also. So here’s a short tutorial on how to grow sunflower in the Philippines.

1. Buy Some Sunflower Seeds

Where to I can buy sunflower seeds? Buy some quality sunflower seeds from agriculture market or store. They sell high quality seeds which you can use to grow your sunflower.

The seeds they sell sometimes has a coated color which help the seeds to live longer. They sell those quality seeds you can use in gardening.

One pack can have up to 20+ sunflower seeds which can cost around 40+ Pesos. You can buy more pack which you can use in growing sunflower.

The sunflower seeds should look black and hard enough. Avoid those broken and not so clean seeds because they will have low percentage of germination.

You can also buy sunflower seeds online on the amazon.com, ebay.com, lazada, or other flower seeds store online.

2. Germinate Sunflower Seeds

The next thing is start germinating the sunflower seeds. The seeds of sunflower is difficult to germinate. There are cases that it has a low percentage of germination so you can use this technique which is here now.

The technique to make sunflower seeds easy to germinate is using the tissue paper or piece of cloth. Prepare all your materials. The sunflower seeds, cloth or tissue paper, plastic with zip lock, water and container.

Get a container with water then soaked the sunflower seeds for about 3 to 4 hours. Then get the tissue paper or cloth and wet it also. Then after that put the sunflower seeds inside the cloth or tissue paper and roll it over.

Get the plastic with zip lock and put the roll tissue paper or cloth inside. After that, lock the plastic and put it inside the container. After three to seven days, the sunflower seeds will start to germinate.

Not all sunflower seeds will germinate but it will boost and make the germination process easy and will improve the germination of the sunflower seeds.

3. Planting the Germinated Sunflower Seeds

Go to your garden. While you are just germinating sunflower seeds, you need to prepare your soil for planting.

Make a plot. Decide on how big is the plot you are going to make. If you have a bigger enough land space you can adjust it. Make sure that the spot you choose have a direct sunlight from the sun. This will help the sunflower to grow well. The sunlight is the main food of the sunflower so it needs more sunlight.

To prepare your soil, remove first the unwanted materials like rocks, plastics, cans, garbage and roots of the trees. Then cultivate the soil using the garden tools like shovel and grab hoe.

Next, remove the grasses. You didn’t want grasses on your garden so you should remove those grasses. Then pulverize the bigger bunch of soil. When all is prepared we need to plant the germinated sunflower seeds.

Get garden tool like trowel or bolo. Then plant the germinated sunflower seeds around one inch deep on the soil. Cover it after. Make a 12 inch sunflower plant distance. Then water it after. After several days the sunflower will start growing.

4. Caring for Sunflower

When the sunflower started to grow the caring process is highly essential. Put some barrier against the sunlight. The flower needs sunlight but too much direct sunlight can harm on the flower. You can use banana trunk and put it on the sunflower seedlings.

After several days it will continues to grow. How often do sunflower needs to be water. You need to water it regularly twice a day. One in the morning and in the afternoon. A young sunflower needs around 500 ml of water per watering. That’s 1L if you are watering it twice a day.

You need also to apply fertilizer on the sunflower. There are chemical fertilizer being sold in the market which can also help to the whole flower, but we really recommended and ecofriendly kind of fertilizer. Use organic fertilizer instead.

To apply the fertilizer, you can mix it on the water so that it will absorb all of the roots. Or you can just put it on the soil.

5. Sunflower is Flowering

It takes around five to six months for the sunflower to begin flowering. To make it more faster for the sunflower to produce more flower you need to do your best. Water it regularly with enough amount of water.

As time goes by, the sunflower needs to more water so add more from 1L everyday to 2L. Use the 1L amount of water in the morning and also 1L in the afternoon.

You need to remove those living grasses on the soil so that all fertilizer will be get of the sunflower.

6. Enjoy Seing Your Beautiful Sunflower

After your hard work on how to grow sunflower in the Philippines, enjoy seing your sunflower that produces more flowers. Make a picture of sunflower and upload it on the social media. You can capture yourself beside, under or below the sunflower.

Some few Questions about Sunflower

Can you grow sunflower in the container?
The answer is yes, you can grow sunflower inside the container. The whole process is just the same above procedure. The difference is you have a small portion amount of soil.

We recommend that use a bigger size pots as it will help the flower to sprout and produces it’s roots. You need to care also by watering it regularly and applying fertilizer for the flower. And soonest it will produce some beautiful sunflowers.

Can sunflower grow in shaded area?
It might be hard for the sunflower to grow in shaded area. But if you want it to grow, plant it in the container. Then every morning put the sunflower outside, on the place where the direct sunlight can hit and then the sunflower will surely grow well.

Thanks for reading this article about how to grow sunflower in the Philippines. Thanks for your time and effort in reading this whole stuff. Hope you learn something coming from us even as little as possible. Thanks once again and good day.

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