browndrake

I was talking to an old-timer last night. He told me that the "old-timers" used to grow sugarcane here for molasses. They probably haven't done it though in 70+ years. He has no idea what cultivar or any other info about it. Just that they did it and that parts from the old crusher or grinder or whatever it is are still out there. He says that they hooked horses up to it and they would go around in circles processing the cane.

Any suggestions on specific cultivars? I know that there are several that have been bred for Florida and other places stateside..but many of them do no produce seed. I think that I would like to get one that will seed and be true to form from seed.

Beth, do you think that Flor del Azucar would survive here? A mixed type like that sounds wonderful. If not that do you or anybody have suggestions of another similar type that might do well here?

Open to any ideas.

I would like to be able to produce 50-100 kilos of sugar/molasses a year.

Thanks

aaron

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