Planting & Harvesting Sugarcane | Growing in Florida

Yo peace family love light abundance manifestations and gratitude We're here right now at the farm at the fazenda and we are doing the multiple things today But this video is going to be focused on sugarcane and propagating sugarcane So today is sunday beautiful weather and what better time than to plant our sugarcane? This is our red sugarcane Uh, and what we're gonna do is pretty much pack these down and spread them into different beds And that's what we want to go over. So my brother samuel is actually going to be working with us today He's been coming out to the farm helping us out So he's going to be directing us in terms of like the sugarcane and how we want it to be So right now we are in the middle of november Uh in north florida zone 8b And right now is a good time to get these sugarcane popping They say to harvest them when the sugarcane gets nice and tall and when the stalks are thick So we're going to use this opportunity to just propagate these bad boys so y'all can check them out See how they are What we're going to do is we're going to be using these for juicing Uh, the juices of the sugarcane have a lot of minerals So once these grow we're going to be able to harvest them Process them and bring them to our local market so that people can try the juice of the sugarcane So here's the space That we're going to be using to plant the sugarcane in And what we did first was uh scrape the top layer of the soil away because we had already Broadcasted some cover crop season to the space um If you look down you can see That's our hairy vetch. We did a rye and hairy vetch in this space And pretty much since it's the fall Uh going towards the winter how we prepare for our space as we plant our cover crops throughout Um, that's a mulberry tree and we also have elderberries further down so on this side That is already a previously done sugarcane bed and we just make the one right here. So we scraped away Uh the top layer make sure there's no seeds in the space And now we're going to cultivate the space to put topsoil into So the next step is digging these two channels out and this is we're going to place the sugarcane We're going to fill this up with Uh organic matter we're using our pro mix this time as well as some compost some worm castings i'm gonna uh Put them in and get them going Right now we're spreading one that's going to cultivate the sugarcane The sugarcane doesn't need to be buried that deep So integrating the topsoil shouldn't be that intensive Our next step will be to harvest the sugarcane Just appreciating this height And then we can take note Based on the height the different layers of sugar maturity with the sugarcane itself Those layers are expressed by the fiber That makes up the sugarcane itself from the ground All the way up to where these leaves are Which contains small hairs That can penetrate the skin. We're going to just work with the base using a machete To harvest the sugarcane Okay That's what i'm talking about So where are you choosing to cut? I'm choosing to cut between three eyes So each eye is where a plant can potentially come out and the root system grows from and so you got that the eye Or the node and then you got in between the eye also known as the inter node And that's how we're making our cuts so now We can choose to be uniform with these solid sugarcane and plant them With a length metric of three nodes per sugarcane cut And we can also take note of the top of the plant Seeing how it's different in the color of fiber Than the base of the plant so the base gets darker absolutely And in order to utilize the top portion the best We want to make sure we cut it At a point that is mature enough for roots to come through If you cut it up too high, it just isn't mature enough to produce roots It's just gonna be organic matter. So absolutely the next step We lay out our sugarcane with the nodes facing horizontal Because the sugarcane sprouts they come out the nodes hopefully from the sides and then go towards the sunlight Okay So you just spread them like that. Yeah, this is how I would spread them All right, because imagine roots come out and they bunch out boom. Yeah. Yeah, boom This is the space, you know creating these clusters back Just lay these out all the way across next step So now we're just mixing up the soil Now that we have our canes in a proper placement. We're going to mix up all the organic matter and all the compost And then we're gonna put the cane in and that's planting sugarcane, thanks, huh So one final notice that all this Leaves and organic matter all of the leaves that uh with chopping can be used to feed the plants So we're going to pretty much put those on top of the bands um And all that organic matter will help with the microbes and all that good stuff. All right y'all So that's what we got going on for today We appreciate you for rocking with us. Make sure y'all support Subscribe to the channel consider supporting us on patreon and as always thank you for being smarter by nature You