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| About the Author Eddie Melbourne 22nd March 2011 9:25pm #UserID: 948 Posts: 71 View All Eddie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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adamus says... Hi Eddie. We grow sugar cane in India, but I'm pretty sure you grow it from cane cuttings, we do in india anyway. Just get two foot long pieces of fresh cut cane, and plant them a foot deep, and keep the water up to them. Obviously South India is a bit warmer than Melb, but I can't see why the growing would be different. Maybe just a little slower, and the sugar content may be a little less. We also plant them in ridges, like elongated mounds. | About the Author adamus Armidale 22nd March 2011 10:23pm #UserID: 4604 Posts: 48 View All adamus's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Eddie Melbourne 22nd March 2011 10:54pm #UserID: 948 Posts: 71 View All Eddie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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adamus says... Hi Eddie. They were selling Sugar cane in lengths so people could eat it, at the Vic Market last time I was there. it wasn't too expensive, and if you get one plant to grow, you will have hundreds the next season. I've never heard of it being grown from seed, I don't think people do that. The stall at Vic. Market was just near the Organic Section, where they used to sell live animals many years ago, now it's organic food. | About the Author adamus Armidale 23rd March 2011 11:09am #UserID: 4604 Posts: 48 View All adamus's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Eddie Melbourne 23rd March 2011 11:54am #UserID: 948 Posts: 71 View All Eddie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jantina says... Eddie I have sugarcane growing in my unheated glasshouse so you shouldn't have any trouble. It's about 2 and a half metres high. It's fun to be able to say I've got it growing but really it's novelty value only as a sizeable crop would take up far too much space in my glasshouse. You may be able to grow it outside in Melb. I got mine from some nursery up north (maybe GreenHarvest).Got some New Guinea sugarcane too from a kind forum poster and it's booming. | About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 23rd March 2011 5:05pm #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Eddie Melbourne 23rd March 2011 5:44pm #UserID: 948 Posts: 71 View All Eddie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Nick T Altona 23rd March 2011 5:53pm #UserID: 2663 Posts: 727 View All Nick T's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Wayne says... I'm thinking [being in the middle of the QLD sugar cane industry] as to how and why you good people grow it. We harvest over 12 million tonnes here locally each year and have an extremely strict cane quarantine policy in place, we cannot take a stick of sugar cane from one district to another | About the Author Wayne Mackay QLD 23rd March 2011 5:58pm #UserID: 338 Posts: 908 View All Wayne's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Eddie Melbourne 23rd March 2011 6:28pm #UserID: 948 Posts: 71 View All Eddie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Eddie says... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/WORLDS-TALLEST-SUGAR-CANE-ORGANIC-45-SEEDS-giant-RARE-/160516905909?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255f8d9bb5 I found this on Ebay do you think will be ok Eddie | About the Author Eddie Melbourne 23rd March 2011 6:31pm #UserID: 948 Posts: 71 View All Eddie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Jantina says... It's the fun of the challenge Wayne! You just don't know if you are going to get a useful plant unless you have a go. Eddie that sure sounds good, you get those seeds and try them and I'll send Nick back with a cutting for you and if they come up maybe I can have a seedling but better check with AQIS first, you don't want to pay for something they might bin. Nick when you get here you can have a cutting of anything that's big enough that you want. | About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 23rd March 2011 7:03pm #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author Nick T Altona 24th March 2011 7:20am #UserID: 2663 Posts: 727 View All Nick T's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Kells says... Jantina Do you have any sugarcane to spare? My partner often mentions his Dad bringing them some as kids and I would love to try and grow some. We aren't too far from you. I have been trying to find some for years and it is always in Queensland. Or has anyone had any luck? I am not game to order from the USA. | About the Author Kells Mt Benson 2nd June 2011 4:18pm #UserID: 5377 Posts: 1 View All Kells's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Jantina Mt Gambier 2nd June 2011 7:37pm #UserID: 1351 Posts: 1272 View All Jantina's Edible Fruit Trees |
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