Tarahumara Sunflower
- Organic
- Annual flowers with golden petals grow to 10 inches across
- Edible seeds
- Plants grow to 6-9 feet tall
- Tolerates poor soil
- 80 days
Item Details
(H. annuus) A well-adapted introduction, most likely of Canadian Mennonite origin, later adopted by the Tarahumara tribe. Solid gold flowers are 8-10" in diameter. Primarily ivory-colored edible seeds with an occasional striped seed. Tolerant of poor conditions. Plants grow 6-9' tall. Annual, 80 days.
Learn to Grow Tarahumara Sunflower
Direct Seed: 6" Apart
Direct Seed: 1/2" Deep
Germination: 10-14 Days
Rows Apart: 24-36"
Instructions - Sow seeds outdoors after last frost. Sunflowers prefer full sun to light shade and well-drained rich soil. Provide support for tall plants.
Ratings & Reviews
2 reviews
Nine Footer
by Coastal BC
I grew these sunflowers from seed this year and am having great success. The biggest one is probably nine feet tall!
Fast growing, great germination rate and time, and maybe mouse resistant or not mouse preferred
by Vicki Jones
This is our first time growing this variety. Mice got into our greenhouse yesterday and ate all our winter squash seeds and all of our sunflower seeds except for this variety. They ate a few of these white seeds and took a bite out of two or three cotyledons. That's all. Most of them are okay and growing fast. We put the peat pots on top of our refrigerator in a clear bin until they grow true leaves. Then we will put them in the ground. We consider them mouse resistant fast growing and the germination rate and short germination time are incredible!. We soaked the seeds in water for 24 hours before planting in 4-in peat pots.