Can someone please help me with dwarf/sunspot sunflowers 😳

[Daisiesanddahlias]

Hi all, I have absolutely no experience in gardening 😔 and my dc has been insisting on growing some flowers etc this year. So as I was out shopping a few weeks back I found a sort of easy to plant sunspot sunflowers in MnS. It came with its own (smallish) bucket and compost and seeds. I feel like bit of a mug now given that you could buy seeds for a few quid and I already had compost and containers from previous failed attempts at gardening , but i thought this would be an idiots guide to growing something🤦🏻‍♀️. Anyways, I followed instructions and now the seedlings have appeared. There seem to be quite a few seedlings in the pot , am I supposed to be doing anything with them , like picking a few ? Or can I just leave them there and they'll all grow okay? The instructions don't say , it just said to loosely sprinkle all the seeds 🤔

They're now at the stage which is called potting on. Hold the leaf in one hand and use a spoon/pencil to lift the soil underneath the seedling. It will come out with the roots attached you then put this into another pot with some compost that you've made a little hole into. So the seedling is now in a small pot of its own. It'll grow to about 8-10 inches and then you can plant the whole pot into the ground or another bigger pot for it to grow till it flowers.

I wouldn't pot them on until they are bigger and have the next set of leaves (true leaves).

Thin them out for now and get rid of the smaller weediest shoots, and ones that are too close together.

I hope you get some good results in the end because it's great fun to do with DCs. Next year go down the DIY route, those kits in a bucket are a con.

@Custardbanana @TonTonMacoute thank you so much for your replies. So how many plants are there supposed to be per pot /one of these buckets? Just 1? Am I supposed to be potting all of them bar one in separate pots? I have similar sized pots/containers so i could do that if that is what i am supposed to do. I am planning on doing these in containers so i won't have a ruined lawn if things don't go to plan .
@TonTonMacoute thank you, I hope i get good results too. Next year I'll definitely be going down the diy route. It was £10 for a bucket,seeds and a bit of compost 🤦🏻‍♀️

I grow dwarf sunflowers every year, and I would definitely have one per pot. I would wait for pricking them out/potting them on though, until the first true leaves are a decent size. They are visible on some of your seedlings, but tiny.

@BigglyBee thank you so much for replying. One pot per plant it is then !