Sugarcane Cuttings and Rooting by The Noob Gardener

Hi and welcome back to another video from the Noob Gardener and today I am selling sugar canes. Sugar canes is one of the easiest things that you can grow in your garden. It grows somewhat like a banana plant. You would start with one plant just like this one and then as it grows a new baby shoots are going to come up just like this one right here and then suddenly you end up with a bunch of sugar canes like this. Behind me I have three different varieties that I grow on my property. The first one is a purple skin variety. This variety is mildly sweet so you can eat this variety by chewing on it, drink the juice and then spit out the sap. The next one over is the black skin variety. I believe this is mainly used for to make brown sugar. And then the last variety that I have is a yellow or green skin variety and it is commonly used for to make sugar cane juice. So how do you propagate sugar canes? One way that I know how to propagate sugar cane is through cutting. If you look here, look at this one. This one is quite big. If you look here these are what you call nodes and with each of these nodes you can grow a new sugar cane plant by rooting the nodes. Two ways that I know how to root these nodes are one is to directly sow it into the ground and two is through water like how you would try to root an onion, a potato and so forth. So these are the nodes or cuttings that I will have listed on eBay for sales. And now I am gonna show you guys how I root these and what the state of it when you buy it from me from eBay. So I'm gonna grab a knife and a cutting board and cut this down and do it for you right here right now. So here are the cuttings that I have just cut. The one to the most left here this is pretty much the trunk of the plant that I cut down and you can see that it already has roots. So we'll try to root this one as well and these are the rest of them. As you can see they are about two inches. An inch above the node and an inch below the node and I will directly sow this into the ground and we are going to do that right now. So these are the cuttings that I now have sowed into the ground. I have also went ahead and cut a black variety and they are now in the ground as well. As you can see these cuttings are a little bit exposed on the top soil. The reason for that was because I wanted to see the progress as these saw to root. So I can take updated photos and update my listings on eBay. So if you are interested in buying these cuttings I will have the link in the description below. Ideally you want to sow these cuttings maybe an inch or two into the soil so that when it does come up like this your plant is stable and not tip over easily. So that is it and if you have the same interest as I am please do consider subscribing to my channel so you will be the first to get notified when I have new content or listing for sales. Thank you and have a good day.