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gregn
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Joined: 15 Oct 2006
Posts: 236
Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada

Posted: Tue 22 Jan, 2008 2:23 am

I was in the Grocery store today and for the 1st time - I saw a 3' long piece of sugar cane for sale in the produce section. (it looks like Bamboo 1 3/4" dia) So I bought it Laughing It looks like it could be rooted . Has anyone crown cane as a house plant? How did it go?
Any suggestions?
Joe Real being from the Philippines, you probably have done this Smile Laughing Laughing Laughing

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JoeReal
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Joined: 16 Nov 2005
Posts: 4726
Location: Davis, California

Posted: Tue 22 Jan, 2008 2:59 am

Yes did it a zillion times, Laughing

We simply cut the cane so that it would have at least two nodes, then bury entirely in the ground completely flat or slanting to max of 30 deg. Then the rains and the warm tropical air will do the rest.

Over here, I've tried to grow the tropical sugar cane three times, and three times they were eaten by nematodes, Crying or Very sad

Am still looking for a cold hardy type but with bigger stems. The cold hardy ones available have stems as big as budsticks, no perhaps about the diameter of a small sharpie. I need something that is about at least 1 1/2" diameter and cold hardy.
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Skeeter
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Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 2218
Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9

Posted: Tue 22 Jan, 2008 4:10 am

Your climate is pretty close to here isn't it--they grow cane here--well up into central AL, but it is a summer crop, cut in the fall to make syrup. It is about the diameter of your wrist.

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