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| Dammit, my sugar cane grew great all year, but since we're getting freezing temperatures this weekend I went to harvest it.
Termites had gotten into the base of the plant and rotted out the entire core almost to the end. By the time I chopped past the last of the brown sludge, it was so high up that it wasn't sweet at all. |
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| Unlikely to be termites. They eat dead woody stuff. More likely to be cane/stem borers attacking stressed plant which isn't receiving sufficient heat to grow vigorously. |
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| edymnion, I did not know we could grow sugarcane in zone 7 &8. Can you tell us what variety you have & where I can get it. |
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| edymnion, I did not know we could grow sugarcane in zone 7 &8. Can you tell us what variety you have & where I can get it. |
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| I don't remember the exact variety name, only that it was a purple chewing cane. Got it off ebay. And yeah, it can be grown here, I just waited too long to harvest mine (waited until it was about to freeze, which meant it had been going down into the low 40's for a month). Got a stick off ebay and started it indoors until the weather warmed up enough to transplant it outside, grew to a good 8 feet tall or so in a single season (not that much actual cane, half of it was essentially just leaves). Never did tassel though. |
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