Is All Sugarcane Sorghum?
 

I bought three kinds of sugar cane on eBay. Not sure if they're sorghum. I read that the leaves are toxic to dogs, so I won't be able to plant them around the greenhouse if they are sorghum. Anyone know?

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I think that sorghum is a totally different plant from sugarcane. Might even be a type of grain.

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Sorghum is crushed then is boiled down to a syrup. A common site years ago was the horse pulled rolling steel drums that crushed the cane to collect the juice as well as the boiling pots. I bet there is a youtube on this. The flavor is sweet but it has a flavor that is in the neighborhood of molasses. Do a search on sorghum syrup.

Re: Is All Sugarcane Sorghum?
 

Sorghum is a good desert for a deer food plot. :^)

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It's related to corn.

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Oja, I got it now. Thanks! :)

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You'd be surprised at what's toxic in your yard to kids, dogs, cats and anything else for that matter. No dogs I know have ever died because there is a cycas revoluta in the yard, even though they kill dogs. Just because you know it's toxic does not mean some kid is gonna walk up to your Brugmansia and start eating the flowers.

If they do, by all means, let 'em. But 98% of the population has no idea about any of this stuff. If they did they'd never go outside. It's the same with the temperature you hear on the news. If they told you how hot it actually is outside no one would ever go out.

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I believe the talking weather heads on tv here want to make the weather sound worse than it actually is. Growing up here in Florida our house didn't have any AC, survived with fans, lots of fans. They finally got the AC put in in the early 90's when almost all the kids had grown and moved on. Back then I can't remember the weather heads talking about wind chills and heat indexes. If it was 98 degrees outside that's what it was and that's what felt like, 98 degrees. Now they will mention the current temp and then jump right to "with the heat index it feels like 104" or "with the wind chill it's going to feel like".
And of course June 1st is the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season, they can hardly wait for that. A tropical depression coming off the coast of Africa is our TV weather heads wet dream. You should hear them when there is a wave of stuff coming off Africa, gonna tell you it is to soon to be concerned, but the next breath they will tell you exactly how many miles from Orlando they are.

Kinda off-topic sorry. I have sugar cane growing in my yard (back on topic)
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