Best way to Grow Sugar Cane in Containers #growingsugarcane #sugarcane

Hey in today's video it's going to be great we're going to be planting sugar cane but we're going to plant sugar cane in containers and I'm going to show you just how easy it is to do let's go all right all I'm going to do is take my loppers I'm going to go down low to the base and timber it's down and I'm going to go ahead and get this one too this is my green cane I haven't tried this before so that should be pretty sweet to taste all right so that's some of the cane that we're going to be using I already got some cane but it's a different color all right now this is some of the cane that I will be planting today now this is two different varieties I don't know the name of them but at the end of the video if you stick around I will do a test tasting sample and see if which one's a sweeter if it's going to be the burgundy color or the green all right I never had the green so we shall see now when you get your container you know you got to put drainage holes in the bottom so I'm gonna go ahead and handle that right now as you can see I just put as many holes as I wanted to so I just have fun with it now I'm thinking that if some of the roots grow that far they can go to the soil in the ground but I am going to put a couple on the side so I'll do that and I'll get right back with you all right so there are my holes on the side bring you in close now you may not need to do that but why not I got a drill I felt like drilling all right so let's go now my containers I'm going to use black cow I like using black cow you don't have to use that get any compost that you like so I'm gonna go ahead and get that in and I'm also gonna put some leaf mold in it as well so let me grab my leaf mold this leaf mold is some good stuff soon as those leaves fall I'm going to be making me some more this container is going to be nice and rich with good nutrients for the sugar cane I'm gonna dump the rest of that in here I'm gonna go ahead and get the rest of my black cow after I mix this in before we go to the next step now black cow is watching if they want to partner I'm all down for that because as much as I use the black cow because it's some real good stuff and I'm here I am wasting it all right let me get all of it back in here this is a good time for people down south to go ahead and plant their sugar cane for the following season so make sure you are aware of your area your grow zone and so that you'll know when to plant your sugar cane because this is not going to grow during the winter time but I'm uh that's why I'm gonna go four inches deep now so you see this little uh joint right here that node this is where the sugar cane is coming from right here so I'm gonna cut in between the cane right here yeah I know I want to eat the cane but I gotta make some more cane for next year and so this is one that I'm gonna put in here as well I've already we've already chewed some of the cane but I want it to be a little bit longer than that but I'm still gonna try to see if I can get another cane from from that eye right there that node so let's go ahead and get the cut all right so that piece I already got a nice root right there that's gonna work for us so we're gonna cut some more and then I'm gonna get the other variety of the cane right here all right so it's gonna be a great experiment but I know it's gonna work because I've already seen it on YouTube all right let's get one more piece from this cane all right so now we're going to the cane that I haven't tasted yet it looks sweet what you think yep so I'm gonna I'm gonna try to pile a lot of cane in this area and one other thing if you already got a big size container you may want to go ahead and put it in the place that you're going to uh leave it to grow because it's gonna be kind of hard to move it depending on what size uh container you have now I'm still going to plant some more in my food forest because I like that as well but I wanted to try this also all right so we're gonna make our trench going four inches deep I don't want to plant it too deep but I don't want to be so shallow that we get some warm days and then it comes up all right let's put this cane down in here like that trench and then in the springtime summertime we should have that cane coming up all right so let me go ahead and cover it back up that's all we gonna do pour the rest of the soil back over it all right and smooth that out let me go ahead and dig my trench for the next spot all right so we're just gonna put the cane in like we just did and I'm gonna find the uh node right here so I can stick it have that sticking straight up but if you got one this long you may have one on the opposite side as well but it should it still should work all right so once again I got the node all the way up make it easier to come up let's just cover it back up all right so I'm gonna repeat the process for these two and then I'll get right back with you now that is it you really don't need to add fertilizer but I'm gonna go ahead and add fertilizer because it's going to break down over time and I want to make sure since I'm in a container I'm getting some nice growth once they start producing and breaking through when it warms up so you don't need to do this but I'm just gonna put this down and I'm using a blood meal I only had a little bit so I'm going to mix in my tomato and veg as well so I'm gonna slide this over the top and if you want to mulch the top area you can I'm gonna add a little bit of mulch over the top after I put this fertilizer down and mix it in and then we should be good to go and then we can go ahead and taste that cane and see if there's any difference in the taste now this right here is like a mulch because it's supposed to be topsoil but it actually looks like broken down wood chips and I never really used it except for my citrus so I'm gonna use that for the mulch a little layer over top and I'll water it in a little later but that's good to go right there all right so I just got back from washing my hands and getting my cutting board and knife all right so here's the green cane and all that juice I can't wait to taste that just coming out of it and here's the reddish kind right here so I already had this a lot let's go ahead and cut and see if there's a difference all right so I like to cut it straight down like this so I don't chop my fingers I cut my fingers all right I can't wait so that's the green let me go ahead and chop the reddish kind all right so this is the green cane right here I can already tell you that's sweeter the green to me tastes sweet sweeter make sure I plant more of that I mean this is good too but when you compare the two I can taste the difference once again that green cane is on point it is so sweet it makes the other one taste like it's less sweet all right so you have got to get your hands on it I don't know the name of the green of that green cane all I can tell you is green cane so that's my name that I'm giving it but it's outstanding so just remember you can plant it the same way in the ground if you want to but if you don't have a backyard or you have a patio this will be a way that you can grow your cane as well so until then I'll see you in the next video which is over there so you can I'll see you in that video all right bye