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re: growing sugar cane in yard. where do I buy?
Posted on 11/22/13 at 7:12 am to CreoleGumbo
Posted on 11/22/13 at 7:12 am to CreoleGumbo
Let me help you out here, what you seen grown in West Baton Rouge Parish and most of LA for that matter is a commercial hybrid variety of cane that's engineered for being ground. Basically all the sugar being drawn out. It's unnaturally hard and tough as shite. Do not try to chew it.
It's not your grandfather's Sugar Cane that would be cut up and served to kids to be sucked/chewed on.
What you want to buy is something called Blue Ribbon Sugar Cane if you can find it. Get some seedlings of that and grow a crop- will take at least two seasons- then you would have something. This is big fat stalks of cane that is naturally soft compared to the hybrid commercial cane that's grown now.
It's not your grandfather's Sugar Cane that would be cut up and served to kids to be sucked/chewed on.
What you want to buy is something called Blue Ribbon Sugar Cane if you can find it. Get some seedlings of that and grow a crop- will take at least two seasons- then you would have something. This is big fat stalks of cane that is naturally soft compared to the hybrid commercial cane that's grown now.
This post was edited on 11/22/13 at 7:17 am
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Posted on 11/22/13 at 9:59 am to Cajun Revolution
Cajun revolution I had an old guy from Grand Chenier give me some purple cane. He said it was what the old timers grew to make their syrup. I planted it according to his directions but it didn't come up.
Posted on 11/22/13 at 12:56 pm to Cajun Revolution
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It's unnaturally hard and tough as shite.
no lie. It will give a Kubota zero turn the shits when you run over it while mowing. I don't seek it out or anything, but the farmer across the road manages to spill enough that some always ends up on my bature.
Posted on 11/22/13 at 1:27 pm to Cajun Revolution
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It's not your grandfather's Sugar Cane that would be cut up and served to kids to be sucked/chewed on. What you want to buy is something called Blue Ribbon Sugar Cane if you can find it.
True. I grew up with Ribbon cane in the 50s. I think the bad tasting hybrid came out in the 70s and all the farmers went with it because of resistance to pests and disease. Not for chewing.
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