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good job!


lost this one a couple years back.

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Looks Excellent! You're doing a great job there :)

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I just had a bunch for snack over the weekend, and about 3 cups of sugar cane juice. One of my favorite juice. I'm gonna be planting some soon. Thanks for the great links in this thread.

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:woohoonaner:

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looking good!

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Anyone else have any to share or trade? I'd like to give them a shot too now that I'm inspired...... they make rum out of sugar cane don't they?:ha:

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I have been looking for a good stateside source for a while now for cane (short of finding a plantation in the south and "borrowing" a cane but that wouldn\'t be the ethical nor condoned way to go.
And for you Bob! The sell chunks of cane and unprocessed cane sugar online and in most grocery stores that you can use to make rum........

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got the striped ribbon cane again last month from a good buddy.This is a very vigorous ribbon cane! :08:
Hope not to kill it again once it sprouts.

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I had some purple sugar cane but something happened to it. I have the regular ol' green kind but my dogs keep beating it up!

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Is there anything left of the root system or even a small shoot? It can be replanted in a different spot.

Check out Stokes tropicals. They are in Louisiana as well and they may have starts. They've been
in business a long time and if they don't have purple can I'm pretty sure that they will be able to
get it for you.
Stokes Tropicals-Specializes in Tropical Plants, Rare, Exotic Plants, Trees

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Yeah, it's OK. I'm going to move it. It's a bit freeze damaged as well.

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It should recover. If you are going to have frost again, cover it overnight. I wish I could send you some culms as I have loads of it as windrow around my property but the USDA will not permit shipments from here to the 'states'!

Aloha and good luck!

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This looks like a good guide on growing sugarcane.
SS-AGR-253/SC052: Backyard Sugarcane

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I think in the spring, I'm going to get some of this var. of Saccharum:
Shaman Australis Botanicals

Violaceum looks very beautiful, but one thing I've read about it is that it's not quite as hardy as other officinarums, so I might even have to overwinter it in a GH. :/
Maybe its' worth it, if it looks like that.

Curious if anyone has grown it and if it's as sweet as other var's?

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Anybody here ever try Cachaça?

Maison Leblon Demonstration At The Doheny with Master Distiller Gilles Merlet - A Cachaça Education

I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'd like to give it a try. Maybe Bob will be my partner in crime??? :D

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.... had a very tough week.I think I might need about 5 of those pretty soon!:nanadrink:

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...After watching this,I think 10 will be better LOL!

YouTube - How to make a Caipirinha - LEBLON Cachaça

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Wow, I need at least one of those.

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short update

:woohoonaner:

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Hey!

I'm in the sugar business as well!
Last week on Monday I received two cuttings of sugarcane from the Canary Islands. I got it from Canarius in Tenerife.
I put it in water on a heat mat at temps around 30° C and just after about 5 - 6 days roots started to show. I will put it in soil now and let sit another week or so on the heat mat. Then it'll go to the green house at the weekend after temps have hopefully risen to spring weather!
I got a purple cane with yellow stripes and yellow cane.