I’m curious, about how much seed do you get from the average sunflower, after the shells are removed?
I’m trying to plan out what I’d need to grow to maintain my current diet, more or less.
Dammit, I know the answer to this, and it's written on a small scrap of paper somewhere around here. I also told Marco, so she may actually remember the number.
I'm thinking (almost, but not quite guessing), that I got 4 oz of seed per sunflower. And that the shelled weight was 25%.
I remember a bunch of dividing by 4 when I did those measurements/calculations.
I will look. I need a real notebook, instead of scraps of paper that I do calculations on.
/johnny
Mammoth grey stripe sunflower have the most potential food. I had a volunteer grow beside my driveway, in a pile of rocks/crappy soil, minimal water. The seed head was 23” across and 99% viable seed.
Problem around here is bird competition.
Good thing about sunflowers, they are very vertical and can be interplanted with other crops. As soon as the soil warms enough for beans, I plant sunflowers. I will plant them every two weeks until August to keep a steady crop.
25# bag of grey stripe sunflower seeds from a feed store (bird food) is probably the cheapest way to get a zillion seeds fast.