Roasted Sunflower Heads

Here's a thing - if growing sunflowers to eat, does or would anyone find somewhere to get the seeds hulled or turned into oil or, as we're talking roasting the immature flower heads, is that redundant?
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Z-Cook said:
Here's a thing - if growing sunflowers to eat, does or would anyone find somewhere to get the seeds hulled or turned into oil or, as we're talking roasting the immature flower heads, is that redundant?
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Not sure if I am getting you.
You can't roast and eat the flowerhead and extract oil.
It's one or the other
 
I'm sure doing this on an individual basis isn't going to yield enough hulls to get an amount of oil worth the effort. My hulls are going in the compost pile.
 
Z-Cook said:
Here's a thing - if growing sunflowers to eat, does or would anyone find somewhere to get the seeds hulled or turned into oil or, as we're talking roasting the immature flower heads, is that redundant?
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Growing and getting mature seeds in a garden setting is hard because they are so few and birds and squirrels so many. The animal population usually limits home grown quantities eating them well before the seeds get to the mature enough to be harvested stage, in my experience.

Unless you grow then en mass, you'll struggle unless you have a nature free garden.

So eating them before the are mature enough even for the birds and squirrels is a great concept.

As for oil, you'll want to grow black sunflower seeds because they have a higher oil content than the classic black and white striped sunflower seed.

If you grow a dedicated high oil content seed, not the edible variety, Ms Google informs me that you need about 3kg of seed to get 1L of sunflower oil using a home press. I'm assuming that that is 3kg of shelled sunflower seeds.

ETA: i reread the article. 3kg is unshelled weight.
 
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