Can You Grow Sugar Cane in a Cold Country? WE DID! | How To

[@angelad.8944]

Came across this video and thought I would help out. If you strip the outer skin off the cane, you can then chop it up into little sections. Then, I put it in the food chopper after that to make a mash, then put that in a clean feed bag like a rice bag and make a set up so the juices come out into a container. Not much different than a cider process really. Use something heavy to put on top of it to get all the good stuff out. You can pop the pulp back into a bowl/pot and add a little water, mix it, throw it back in the processor and do it all again. Put all the liquid together, filter it a little and then you can cook it. You have to stay with it and stir it, especially towards the end when it gets boiled down. You can use any kind of mold that would be easy to pop the finished product out of. I use silicon trays for ice cube sticks. The finished product is natural brown sugar. It will be a little hard but you can grind it up or shave it as you need it. Some people say its like fudge and cut it into cubes before it gets too hard. I have lined a baking sheet with parchment and have successfully done this method as well. Good luck everyone.

[@BalticHomesteaders]

Thank you. I'd love to have a go at doing this, maybe this year If I grow it again or it grows back where it was as I understand it can do that.

[@TrickleCreekFarm]

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing your process!

[@NnekaOchonogor]

Growing up, I loved eating sugarcane. Didn’t think it was possible outside of the tropics. Thanks for sharing!

[@cynthiafisher9907]

That was a fun experiment! I love the fact that you are always trying new things. I am sure you could come up with a way to squeeze out the juices and boil it down at least to a syrup. I remember seeing that done on Deep South Homestead’s video once. It’s pretty amazing you were even able to grow it that tall!

[@BalticHomesteaders]

That would be cool!

[@TrickleCreekFarm]

I love it! Such an awesome experience and quite a delicious reward! Thank you for sharing your experiment!

[@BalticHomesteaders]

You’re welcome, thank you.

[@elizabethbicevskis6075]

Thank you. Very interesting. I grew up in North Queensland near the cane fields and we loved chewing on sugarcane. Thankfully you won’t have the problems of snakes, rats and cane toads lurking amongst your canes.😊 Best wishes. I do look forward to your videos. We live in Tasmania and usually visit Latvia every year now

[@Greenhomestead]

Nice harvest. Great. 😍👍

[@BalticHomesteaders]

Thanks, hope you're well down there.

[@AbundantAcresHomestead]

this is awesome

[@alexhogan1]

Definitely going to attempt this in 2022 season, I'm in Ireland. What is the red vegetable you are standing in front of?

[@BalticHomesteaders]

Hi, that’s amaranth. There’s a video a couple on from this one about seeds for food security where I talk a little about it.

[@triciac1019]

Wonderful job! I remember munching on a sugar cane in California as a kid. I'm sure it was brought over from Hawaii.

[@BrendaLelie]

When did you sow it? And did you sow it first inside or directly outside? I've got my hand on some seeds and want to try it too this year 😃

[@BalticHomesteaders]

I sowed it on the 20th of April and kept indoors or moved to greenhouse. It would have been planted out after last frost but for some reason I didn’t make a note of it. Probably late May.

[@BrendaLelie]

@@BalticHomesteaders great! Liels paldies! I'm going to give it a try too this year 😃

[@jamesjonnes]

Looks like it's sorghum, good for making syrup. I have a few varieties of sugar cane and they're all much thicker, some as thick as my arm. They grow thicker in the cold, not thinner, because they grow more slowly. Sugar cane doesn't have green leaves close to the base, they all become yellow and fall. It also has many small bulbs that become roots at every node. And the seeds are also larger than sorghum, and they rarely produce seeds. My sugar cane becomes stunted if the temperature falls below 50F and dies at 40F, but sorghum can tolerate 25F. You can probably still grow sugar cane even in Latvia, but you need to cut it and bring inside your house inside soil in the winter to maintain the temperature.

[@jamesjonnes]

Sorry, I checked the temperatures for Aluksne and they're never warm enough for sugar cane to really grow. It needs 85F and Aluksne only reaches about 70F in the summer. You really should make yourself a greenhouse and ask someone in Florida to send you some cane to grow.

[@BalticHomesteaders]

I’d love that but they’d never allow it to get imported :(

[@Tenzky]

Did you put mulch over it and did it survive the winter and sprouted again in spring ?

[@BalticHomesteaders]

It didn’t survive, I understand I could have taken them out and put them in the basement over winter then put them back. Now we’re extending the garden I might give it another go.

[@Tenzky]

@@BalticHomesteaders Yeah thats why I am asking ! I am doing similiar experiment here in Czech republic growing sugarcane and since end of season is coming near I am wondering what will I do. Currently I am thinking I will take half of the plants and dig them up and the second half I will cover with mulch and let it in the ground over winter. Anyway thanks for your asnwer !

[@martin_mattiasemmanuel6375]

Good morning, me I grew sugar cane this year in Serbia, i just collected it from the field on the 31 Oct. And I must say it was a success. The sugar cane i brought from Morocco and some canes i also bought from the Asian market. The taste of sugarcane i grew was equally good as the fresh one i bought in Morocco on the market where they squeeze it for juice. I didn't have time this summer to water the sugar cane often so I almost stopped watering in August and the rest of the year and it was hot all the time and almost no rain. So sugar cane was tick as it should be but not very tall. Now me too I got planty of seedlings of sugar cane with excellent roots. Half of it i left in the field and half of it i took in the green house to propagate new plants for next year in case the ones on the outside dont make it over the winter. Btw i have also planted sugar cane in the green house and that is watered everyday from drop by drop system and is already tall and tick.

[@Tenzky]

@@martin_mattiasemmanuel6375 Hello! That sounds really promising, climate here in Czech republic is little bit similar to Serbia maybe lower temperatures on average. I bough cuttings which I am keeping in warm room and preparing them for spring. I thinking of growing it in big containers as I saw in one video.

[@martin_mattiasemmanuel6375]

@@Tenzky you can have success i am sure. But if you want some greater ammount to squizz some nice ammount of juice i think it must be in the ground. Because sugar cane has huge roots, also produces many canes out of the same root. Now I am confident i can grow it and I have other ideas for improving. I just wonder what will happen to the canes i leave them in the field. Will they freese or come up again in the spring next year. I plan some to cover for isolation and some just to leave without any protection for the experiment.

[@pyrophobia133]

was it able to overwinter?

[@BalticHomesteaders]

Sadly it didn’t, not in our climate.

[@pyrophobia133]

@@BalticHomesteaders also, that looks more like sorghum than sugarcane

[@BalticHomesteaders]

@@pyrophobia133 few people have said that in the comments, could be but I ordered sugar cane. Should have another go really, it’s been a few years.

[@bilaalmanselljones10]

That is sorghum.

[@elizabethbicevskis6075]

..oops, sorry….should be allowed international travel next year.