Saving Sunflower seeds

[laurazone5]

I plant copious amounts of sunflowers every year and save the seeds.

This year, I bought seeds because I loved this particular color.
When I plucked the finished heads to save the seeds.......some where black, some were white?

I have seeds from other sunflowers that are purple/pink.

The pedals were off, and the birds were starting to munch on them, so I 'assumed" they were done?

What say you?

[feather]

Yes they sound ready.

www.almanac.com/plant/sunflowers

[Weed]

They're ready...as a rule I wait until the back of the flower heads begin turning brown or have drooped down then cut them off.  I rub away all of the dried flower on the face and stow the intact heads away and deal with rubbing the seeds out later (winter/spring) 


looks like I need a new host...photobucket is blurring outgoing pics of non subscribers