Over the last couple of months , we ran some experiment with sugarcane propgation .
This drop , we harvested our sugarcane and set to work on putting in more .
We planted six more sugarcane wagon wheels :
And my girl deal some Saccharum officinarum on Etsy .
Yet the biggest thing we wanted to do with sugar cane was to propagate it in the nursery so we could offer pots of it for sales event in the outflow , as well as have lots more flora we could afterward make sugarcane syrup with .
In the past , we grow a few piece of cane in pots by slue up chunks with a twain of nodes and amaze them into soil in my greenhouse . That work , but it still strike two nodes .
Perhaps there was a good agency ? The best way to line up out was to behave an experimentation .
The Sugarcane Propagation Experiment
I look through some clause online and found mostly commercial sugarcane raise information , and then went to YouTube to see how gardeners might be micro - propagating sugar cane .
If we could employ individual nodes to start plants , we could set forth many more plant life from each pin of Saccharum officinarum than if we were to use the commercial method acting of dividing them into segment with three or four node each .
Yet there is a possibility of failure from single - thickening cuttings in many species , since there is no backup and no bulwark against infection . Usually when we diffuse plants in the nursery , we apply at least two nodes and often three .
Perhaps Saccharum officinarum is different ? We had to hunt and see !
The first video I foundwas from Jag Singh , in which he experiment with set about a few single node cuttings as a side pursuit to his main propagation method … and they took .
Then I watched this video from Hutsady K , in which he comparesrooting cane chunks with develop shoots in water and in dirt .
Okay , now we had some information . Since some of my cane was from rare variety , and because we wanted to happen the very in effect agency to propagate sugarcane for maximum return of plants produced per cane , as that made economic sense from a greenhouse perspective , we try multiple propagation methods .
We render one - node , two - knob and three - guest sugarcane film editing planted upright in soil , and in pee .
This is a stalk of Saccharum officinarum , and I ’m pointing out what a growth node look like :
We also did a cycle of cutting where we laid one - node , two - node and three - node cutting on their English in a bin of soil , planted about 1″ beneath the surface .
Then , a footling over a month later , we liken results .
Rooting Sugarcane Cuttings in Water
Since we had a undecomposed spot of cane to root , it made sentiency to cut up our pieces and stick them all into a single container of water , rather than putting each piece of cane in a glass , as you ’ll see on YouTube propagation videos .
My root was to put them all right - side - up in an old pot , then to fructify the throne in water that was about 5″ deep .
They did well this direction , with most of the cuttings rooting and protrude to grow within a few weeks .
The three - node , two - knob and single - leaf node cuttings all did well , with only a few losses .
you’re able to see the duncish white “ H2O roots ” on this two - node slip .
Rooting in water definitely works .
Rooting Sugarcane Cuttings in Soil (Vertically)
Our second experiment was to embed sugarcane cutting upright in filth , in one - node , two - knob , and three - lymph node configurations .
We just used homemade potting mixing , which is a combination of pine bark potato chip with a little backbone , plus composted peanut hull waste and some half - rotten pine crisp from a sawmill .
We fill a great bay window with about 6″ of soil and stuck in cuttings , then topped it off with a small more malicious gossip .
Most all of them rooted .
The etymon on these were better than those on the water supply - root cuttings .
The roots are denser , with lots of side shoots .
Rooting Sugarcane Cuttings in Soil (Horizontally)
Our last experimentation with rooting Saccharum officinarum cuttings was to plant them on their face in a bin of soil , buried about 1″ beneath the Earth’s surface .
These also rooted well .
When I pull a three - lymph gland cutting to check the root developing , it looked excellent :
These are hard to put than vertical cuttings , however , so we ’ll be sticking to those in the future .
The New DTG Approved Method of Rooting Sugarcane Cuttings
From now on , I will be using individual - node sugar cane cuttings and rootle them in grease .
We may simple plant them directly into case-by-case heap as well , since we had such a gamey success rate that we could skip the transplanting outgrowth already and grow them right where we want them to be .
As it is , we ’ve transplanted almost all of the sugarcane start from this experiment so we can provide them for sale in the springiness .
The rooting rate in the nursery was higher than we get from planting multi - node cuttings in the primer coat in the pin . If you have a colder clime or involve to take up a lot of sugarcane plants , I highly recommend using single - node cuttings in soil to ramp up your production .
Yesterday I posted a video on this experimentation , so you’re able to see precisely what we did and how we did it .
Thanks for watching !
More Resources on Sugarcane Propagation
Post on Sugarcane at The Survival Gardener : https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/?s = sugarcane
body of water rooting of sugarcane from Jag Singh at Daisy Creek Farms :
Hutsady K experiments with root sugarcane in pee and territory :
Deep South Homesteadhas multiple videos on Saccharum officinarum .
whole Crazy Easy Florida Gardeningalso cover sugarcane on a backyard scale .
