Watch the results presentation at the Manchester Science Festival
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Read the coverage of the results in the press and online
A list of all the participants who took part in the experiment (coming soon)
We had an overwhelming response to the 2012 call to grow sunflowers with nearly 12,000 pledged!
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Read the Sunflower Diaries from 2012's bloom custodians
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Take a look at our lovely blooms in the growers' gallery
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Get some top tips from the experts on how to care for your sunflowers whilst they’re growing
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Turing's Sunflower growers' pictures make on display as part of Edinburgh Science Festival's Patterns of Nature exhibition.
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Do your sunflowers match up with Turing's theories?
Learn how to count the spirals on your sunflowers with our easy guides and videos
Log your sunflowers ready for collection, counting and photographing
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Register it here and get the local community round for a count-off
We’ll be analysing your data from September 2012 with the full results being announced as part of Manchester Science Festival 2012 in October.
Hopefully your sunflowers are all grown up and ready to harvest, so check out our guides to when and how to count, and start sending us your data!
Read the background story to the Turing’s Sunflowers project and explre the strange links between maths and nature...
Growing tips, Meet thegrowers
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