How to grow Sugar Cane from cuttings

Sugarcane
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In today's video, I'm going to show you how to root sugar cane from cuttings.
So I was in my local Asian market, Viet Wah, and I found these sugar cane cuttings,
and they're meant for eating. But I was like, hey, what if you can root these?
I bought these for about $1.50 a stick, which is relatively cheap compared to
some of that you can find online. Now the first step in rooting these is just to soak
them in water for a couple weeks. Okay, so after about a week, you can start to see roots
starting to sprout from the sheath joint. Okay, here's an update on my sugar cane.
It's been a couple weeks now, and they've pushed out roots and regressed a little bit,
but I can see a new shoot here. So to me, that looks really promising. I think what I'll do
is go ahead and put some of these into pots, which might help it a little bit
in terms of its growth, because keeping it in water
is okay, but the water gets kind of kind of yucky and stagnant really quickly.
And I think it's kind of deteriorating some of the areas that are
not covered with water. So I'm going to, I'm going to go ahead and up pot some of this.
So, you know, we're still in kind of midwinter here in Seattle. It's dark at like five o'clock.
I'm on my patio. Lighting's kind of weak out here, so I apologize about that.
I'm just going to show you what I'm going to do. I'm just going to take that and stand it up like
this. Take this guy, add it in here. These are all one-gallon pots.
Roots on this ain't great. There. And this one I'm just going to leave in water to see what happens.
Soil to these. Okay, so check this out over here. I've got all my sugarcane in one-gallon pots,
and I think half of them are alive, but this one's doing really well right here.
It's got a little, little new shoot that's coming off of it, and that should grow, I guess, pretty
well for the rest of the season. Once it starts to warm up and I can take this thing outside,
maybe put it into a bigger pot, hopefully I can harvest my own sugarcane by the end of the summer.
So that's the sugarcane project, rooting it from cuttings. Super easy. Anybody can do it. Cheap too.
Bye-bye.
