Sunflower Growth Chart

I planted my sunflower seed on February 11th, just the length of the tip of my pinky finger under the soil.

The point of the sunflower is to help clean the soil of community gardens in urban settings. Urban soils tend to be laced with lead, and while sunflowers supposedly can scavenge lead out of the soil without translocating the lead, concentrating it in the roots of the sunflower. 

It sprouted one week later on February 18th and grew very quickly.

First Day Sprouted, Feb 18

By February 25th, my sprout had grown to the height of 11 cm.

Feb 25

On March 1, my sunflower reached 14 cm tall.

Mar 1