When to Harvest Sugar Cane from Your Garden

Hey Florida Beach Hunter here. Listen I want to tell you how you know when you harvest, when it's time to harvest a sugar cane. Now you can harvest it anytime you want to. Okay the bigger you let it get the sweeter it's going to be generally speaking. But there comes a time where you have to harvest it or the sugar in the cane is going to be all used up sending up a flower spike. So each cane sends up a tall flower spike from the top. I'm going to show you what that looks at like right now. So here is a cane that I just harvested and this is the top of it. Actually this is just the top. Okay you see how thin it gets near the top and how farther apart the leaves are. Down here you see how close the leaves are together. As it's ready to go to to seed the leaves get much smaller and further apart and you get this thin tubular you know it's just constantly narrowing down to this point and it's getting ready to send out a flower spike. So I needed to harvest that. Okay so I'm going to show you one now that's not getting ready to flower just so you can sort of compare the difference. Okay so here's some cane that's a long way from flowering and you see how all the the leaves at the tip here are clustered together and it's sending out not a long thin stem but it's sending out leaves continuously sending out leaves. Okay I'll show you another one. So here's another one that is not getting ready to flower. It's got a long way to go yet. The cane the cane itself is only about four feet tall. With the leaves it's probably 10 feet tall. But you see how all the leaves are coming out close together and it's sending out. There's no spike just leaves. So that's how you know when to harvest a cane. I hope that was helpful to you. Thanks for watching.