siamese sunflower!

[Nathan]

I'm Alice (Nathan is my dad)  :-\ I have an allotment plot of my own and I've planted two sunflowers in it.  One of them is really strange though- it got eaten down to the ground when it was very small by a smelly slug  >:(  but grew a new stem. When it was about 30cm high, the stem split into two. I thought at first that the bigger stem might dominate the smaller, and eat all the nutrients and stuff, but they are both growing fine- just a bit slower than the other sunflowers. Has anybody heard of this happening in another sunflower, or any other plant? please reply, i'm interested to know if it is a common thing or whatever.
:) Alice  :)

[Nathan]

[wardy]

Alice    It seems to me that plants never do what is expected of them.  A bit like children  ;D  Veggies grow in all strange shapes and sizes so I'm not a bit surprised your sunflower is not growing as planned.  I'm sure it will be perfectly all right  :)

[Nathan]

the heads on it are opening and the sunflower is only about 2 feet high! i suppose this something to do with having to share food and stuff so they are not very big. :(

[Robert_Brenchley]

Plants are badly held back when things eat them down to the ground, and it's obviously given up on trying to get tall, which would take too long now, and concentrated on getting flowering over so it's still got time to set seed before winter.

[Merry Tiller]

Something damaged the tip of one of mine when it was 2 feet tall, it now has 8 stems with 8 smallish flowers (well it did until my wife nicked 3 of them to stick in a vase, having the best wife in the world does have its down side)

[BAGGY]

I'm not married to you though Merry

[Nathan]

 ;D wow i wish i had one with 8 heads! a sunflower, i mean, not a wife! ;D