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Other details: This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater Self-sows freely; deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season Flowers are good for cutting
Soil pH requirements: 6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic) 6.6 to 7.5 (neutral) 7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline)
Patent Information: Non-patented
Propagation Methods: From seed; direct sow after last frost
Seed Collecting: Bag seedheads to capture ripening seed Allow seedheads to dry on plants; remove and collect seeds Properly cleaned, seed can be successfully stored
I absolutely love this plant, but I planted a whole packet of seed and not one plant grew! Granted it is VERY poor, very hard soil where it was planted. I'll compost and try again next year!
On Sep 26, 2007, LenaBeanNZ from Palmerston North New Zealand (Zone 9b) wrote:
I grew Chianti last year with pitiful results. Only two weak little plants from a whole packet of seed, and only one decent, if small flower. The other flowers were so deformed and fleshy they could barely open unfortuntely. Multiple flowers along each main stem, on very short little laterals.
I grew alot of other sunflowers very successfully, so maybe it was a bad batch of seed. The one flower was a great colour though, so I will include a picture of it. Looking very alone, its almost hard to spot it!
I am trying my luck with Moulin Rouge this season.
On Feb 27, 2007, saanansandy from Sue, RI (Zone 6a) wrote:
I have started these sunflowers direct by seed for the past two years with wonderful success. The stems were strong, multi-stemmed. Although many of the multi-stems are very short making it difficult to use many of them for cutting. I entered this sunflower at the county fair both years and received blue ribbons both times. Visitors have always made positive comments about them.
On Aug 25, 2005, westocast73 from Vancouver, BC (Zone 6b) wrote:
Dark 3 to 5 inch Flowers Multi-Sunflower on 4 to 5 foot Plants.
The colour is nice but I liked Moulin Rouge better. This one produced smaller flowers on weaker stems and had weaker growth and not as heavy a brancher as Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge also flowered a month earlier and kept on flowering as long as Chianti even though Chianti took an extra month to start flowering. Moulin Rouge also seemed to last a day or two longer as a cut flower than Chianti. All in all it is a nice sunflower that wasnt terrible but I believe Moulin Rouge to be a much better choice and will grow more Moulin Rouge next year and no Chianti.
On Feb 21, 2005, kniphofia from Ashington United Kingdom (Zone 8a) wrote:
A most beautiful dark selection of this wonderful annual. Some of my flowers were almost black. I intend to plant a lot more this coming summer to use as cut flowers.
Highly recommended!
Regional...
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Greentown, Indiana Skowhegan, Maine Halifax, Massachusetts Springfield, Missouri Blair, Nebraska Wood River Junction, Rhode Island Austin, Texas Lakewood, Washington
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