How to Grow Sugar Cane in Your Yard: Getting it Started. 

For everyone trying to do this, I used to plant many things as a kid, this is the best way for me to do it, and it was faster and move efficient. Step 1: Cut it so that each cane would have a Node at the bottom and just a little more after the node (you can have two nodes like he did), that's all you need. Step 2: Put the canes halfway in water (water doesn't need to be deep, just make sure that the lower Node and the bit after it is in water). Step 3: Wait. They will sprout faster than a longer cane, and it will probably have bigger roots, I tested this, trust me, after you plant them and they grow you will have real hard time taking them out even if you choose to (at some point they go out of control, you will be seeing tons of them, if you got other plants, they will probably take their water supply as well). Also, you can leave the upper part with the sprouts ABOVE ground, it helps it, all plants need sunlight. Enjoy Sugary treats, careful with those teeth, you can probably cut only the middle part to pieces and chew on that, trying to tear it out with your teeth isn't a good idea.

I can't believe you used your time to show us how and what is the best way to grow sugar cane Thank You Very Much. :)

I wouldnt have the patients to do this! Great job.. love it!

Thank you! My son will be trying the water method in our garden and he is planning to make a juicing machine.

Thanks for doing experiments for us so that we don't have to!! Very much appreciated. How's your harvest???/ How was it???????

thanks for doing this experiment! very interesting. if you were trying to keep a cycle of regular sugar cane each year to get sugar, it would be kind of sad to waste several notches of cane to rot. seems like they need water like rice fields and warmth to be productive.

intresting though i was waiting to see how exactly you transfer the plants from that damn bucket back to nature

How often should I water the sugar canes? And if I started them in the water, and they started sprouting, can I plant them straight up?

Awesome video, thanks for this. Has anyone ever told you you look like Dave Hester from storage wars?

This was very helpful thank you

i'm watching this in 2018...i think what would have made the roots grow longer in the bucket of water... is by providing shade... roots aren't meant to be exposed to sunlight... i think by combing darkness, the bucket of water, and keeping the water relatively warm... i think this would make the roots flourish...

Yea I learn something. Our area look like south of Mexico, we have wicked sun, do u think I can grew singer can

It's been years since this video was uploaded so I don't expect a reply but in the chance I do I have some questions 1.) how long do they take to grow? 2.) where do you get them? 3.) where I live isn't as worm as Florida so when it's cold what do I do? 4.) it's currently late February and in this video they were planted mid December so is it too late to plant them? Thank you to anyone who replies to me!

Thanks I'm really going to try that at home nice...

Hey .I'm considering about the one whiche u started in the water after u put it in the soil .didn't u water it ? thanks.

Where can i get the sugar cane to plant?

I also stuck it straight into the ground

This is the best video where you really compile the time shots into one whole video and show to us how to experiment on it. Thank you a lot for your effort! Good Job!

cutting sugar cane sounds sooooo satisfactory, delicious sound

I'm in my second year growing cane. I started with 2 stalks, about 6inches long and I planted them vertically (but with a slight lean..say maybe 30 degrees)...I kept those babies watered and well nourished, even to the point of using compost tea on occasion. They grew thick, long and robust..almost 3 inches from edge to edge..at least the circumference of an empty paper towel holder! I never soaked them in water prior to planting. The next batch I got from a market in FT. Lauderdale...This time I planted it flat, long enough to include 3 joints in it. After one year I harvested them...5 feet long...it's the 2nd year and I just cut two from that spot they were huge!! ...at least 6 feet and even thicker than the year before. I replanted at the same area. I believe the key is to prepare the soil as best as possible (manure, compost, straw). Then after planting, when they're about two feet high, add another layer of manure and cover with straw. Blood and bone meal are good if no dung is available. Use fresh manure only in the preparation phase and allow to penetrate the soil...at least 2 months prior to planting. Treat your cane like you would your sweetheart...lots of attention and TLC...

"I used to grow cane in the 80's" hmmmmm

Perfect! This was exactly what I needed to decide on how to grow my sugar cane. you just saved me months of trial and error! Thank you.

Pretty awesome. I live in Central Fl as well and as soon as this video started I was certain you were in or near Orlando. I was considering starting some bamboo but this ... is a edible version indeed ... it grows like crazy so it will serve my purpose for a bamboo like fence ... but when I get an itch to make juice or chew a bit ... it will be there. Many thanks from Seminole County!

Your video was so extremely helpful man! I lived in Jamaica for 7 years as a youngster & my house was 15 feet from a sugar cane field that was more than 15 square acres in size. In addition, we had more than 100 cane plants that grew as tall as 9 to 10 feet on average on the actual property that we lived on. Sugar canes were ubiquitous & plentiful in Jamaica as the Saw Palmettos in Florida, yet of all the different exchange of farming methods & ideas that the local people recommended -- I never knew about the bucket sprouting then bucket of potting soil method. That seems to give fastest results so far & I have seen more sugar cane plants in my days as youth than clouds in the sky. This will be the method I that stick to from now on. Great video.

If you are planting sugarcane in Florida the best time to plant is not in December the best time to plant it is in February or March once it starts to warm up you also want to plant it in full Sun keep it well watered and fertilized for best success. if planted in the colder months the Canes will rot. When you plant some underground laying on their side make sure you do not plant them more than twice their diameter deep or they will not germinate well. I have grown them for years I really hope this helps you good luck

A big thank you for sharing your experience also for the regular video updates, and a bigger thank you to our Creator for giving us such a wonderful bountiful world.

My husband is from a village near Luxor Egypt and his family has a cane plantation... he suggests that you do not cut the cane in pieces but leave it long and plant 2 or 3 stalks together in 2 rows that you can walk between with a trench down the middle for watering.

the planting methods of sugar cane directly into the soil by covering the cane completely with soil is wrong. In my childhood my aunt have cane field, we growth my cane for feeding the pigs. The cane should cut into probably about 1 1/2 feet long plant it in the soil ~20 or 30 degrees angle about half of the it in the soil and let the other half above the soil.about 3~5 inches. Also need to water the soil regularly but not too wet otherwise it will rots. The best way not to soak the roots to much, is to make row of 1/2 feet high platform of soil before planting the cane, it will grow fast if recall correctly about 4~6 months it should reaches at least above 5~6 feet high. I think it will grow faster in the tropical Asia country as rain falls regularly in hot & humid weather. We have the best sweetness sugar cane i had ever taste, it is yellowish in color and 1 1/4" diameter which consider small comparing to those green color sugar cane selling for the fresh squash cane juice at drink stall. Our sugar cane is so sweet & crunchy with lot of juice, we always enjoy it for a quick chew in the hot afternoon. Sadly we don't have the farm anymore, as the whole piece land was demolish to give way for the country modern development into city.

Great experiment! Thanks. I actually just threw mine into a pot of peat moss and was ready to throw it out thinking it was rotting. I noticed roots on it and decided to plant it in the ground. It's tall and thriving now. About 5-7 stalks on it and looking forward to growing a fence line of it.

This was very helpful. I just got a cane from someone at work and I can't wait to start my "edible privacy fence"! :) I will definitely start it in water first. I was thinking of doing that even though everyone kept telling me to just put it in the ground but it seemed to me like I should grow roots in water first and from your video, it looks like the right thing to do.

This is the ultimate tutorial!! I'm gonna go plant mine right now, at 11:30 PM.

It's because roots need oxygen. Try adding a fish tank aerator to the bucket and it should stop the roots from rotting.

Thank you so much for this informative video on growing sugar cane!!!!!! :)) =] it made me so happy. I watched it twelve times and also burned it onto a cd and play it continuously in my living room.

Thanks so much, I'm going to try it, but we'll have to see up here in Minnesota. I have grown a mango plant that is 5 years old now.

I live in Houston, planted my some sugarcane in March of this year it's growing good. I had the cuttings stored in the fridge (saved from sugarcane bought from store for chewing couple of months back) and in February i put them in a grocery plastic bag, sprinkled some water and then wrapped the bag in a cloth to keep the humidity high. It was still cold outside so i kept the bag inside the house. In 3 weeks most of them sprouted and i planted them in the middle of March. Thanks for posting the video,

The sound when he cuts the cane is so satisfying wtf

my granny grew sugar cane remebering happy times chewing it

Nobody warned me that sugar cane has thorns 😖 little microscopic hairlike thorns like prickly pears have. There I was carefree, peeling away the dried outer layers preparing to cut up the cane into sections for planting and before I even noticed my hands were completely covered in thorns. Ouch.

My family had been planting Sugarcane in Minnesota during the early March to April and it last until December. This is plant in a green house where the highest temperature is 100 degree F. While the coldest is 38 degree F. We adjust the temperature accordingly to the time of the years and season. It took approximately 12 month to mature and if you really want it to be super sweet, make sure that you water it at least 3 times every 2 weeks. Fertilizer are also an option. We didn't use any thought. My mom like to use leftover pepsi or mountain dew to water the root, which is why our sugarcane reach a high of 3 meters long and is super thick and very sweet.

Well explained sir, thank you for this video. I'm also trying to grow sugarcane at my yard. Checkout my video and let me know if i am doing it right. (=

u should grow them with seawater, ratio of 1:20, 1 part seawater 20 parts spring water. Grass takes up all of the minerals, seawater has all of the minerals. So you should get 92 mineral sugar cane. there is a book called seawater or sea energy agriculture, it explains it, peace.

THANKS A LOT FOR EDUCATING......:) WE LOVE IT ALL

Thank you so much for sharing! I want to plant some at my vacation House in Puerto Rico as a privacy screen, natural sweetener and for the roof of a tropical gazebo I am building!!!

the 80s mannnnn woahhhhh 😲💊 jk I'm not from 80s I'm young asf

fantastic video!!! thank you

That is awesome thank you for teaching me thanks a lot I love growing plant tomatoes serrano peppers but I don't owe a house like you do you are soo lucky to own one God bless you sir thanks again for their enjoy full video!

You are awesome for taking the time to show us how to grow it. I recently got some sugar cane and was curious if it was even growing(I buried it). But now I think I'm going to put it in a bucket of water for sure! Thanks for the video earned a sub for sure!

Thank you for this video. This was morning science class for my daughter during the Corona Virus pandemic that now has me home schooling her. Bet you didn't think your video would serve that purpose 7 years ago . . . .

I know this was years ago, but I enjoyed your experiment very much. Thank you for sharing!

Bagged potting mix is a bitch, you have a 75% chance of getting red rot and other cane problems because shredded cane makes up a huge portion of most potting mix baggers content. Ripping up infected cane, throwing it through a shredder, and adding it as bio mass to potting mix is a norm.

Thank you for this video. I have enjoyed chewing sugar cane all my life. Cane juice is one of my absolute favorite things to drink. Years ago, it was fairly common here in South Georgia for people, who grew cane, to set up beside the road and you would stop by when they were grinding cane and buy the juice right out of the grinder. It's more rare now, but occasionally I find it. Pure Cane Syrup is also one of my favorite things, but it's hard to find without the added corn syrup. I have found small hand turned cane mills on ebay and I'm thinking strongly about buying one. But first I need to see if I can get cane to grow. I remember my parents talking about banking the cane, meaning they piled it up in a heap and covered it with something during the winter. They planted it in the spring. Around here, most people who make syrup make it around Thanksgiving. That's the time to get the juice if you can find it. I wish you success in your efforts to grow your cane.

the cutting sound was SO GREAT.

In Jamaica me plant the cane horizontally in the soil but we don't cover the cane completely with the soil. There is about 10 inch of cane that is not under the earth.

Tasted one of these sugar canes by sucking it. It was really good and sweet.

I live in a frigid climate. I don't know why I watched this.

My family are actual sugarcane farmers, we lay our canes partially on top of the soil, sugarcane loves a bit of heat while growing. It takes almost a year till we harvest our sugarcane for it to be turned into sugar.

MR i feel compelled to thank you for this posting regards glyn lloyd

do the people not liking this video have a better way, because would like to hear it. this man invested a lot of time to help us learn something in a 60 seconds. thanks for the video my kid is doing a school assignment on this.

Alden Rodzik It depends where you are in NC. If the ground where you live usually freezes in the winter, then no, you probably can't grow sugar cane. If you live in the warmer areas and lower elevations then you should be able to grow sugar cane. Even in the colder areas you might be able to get some cane started indoors or in a greenhouse and then set it out in full sun. It might grow some canes large enough to eat before the first frost. Or you could try growing sweet sorghum, which is similar and was popular in your area in the old days.

You don’t need to much water in the bucket! Just along the bottom so the roots can grow the reason it started to rot to much water

Just curious if they are being shaded too much by the high sides of the pot?

Some of us are copy cats on this things and now I'm thinking to at this too 🤔

Amazing video! Thank you I live in southern Texas were it's always hot so this should turn out pretty well

Next time use some rock dust it will make them grow better and healthy

I watched your video a couple of months or so ago and our little crop is coming along very well, so thank you for your handy tips. One thing we didnt expect was our loco cat we adopted from the shelter taking a liking to chomping on the tips of the leaves haha

wow, am really amazed and shocked...definitely going to try this.

This is interesting......I grew about an acre of sugar cane at one time. I grew it for about 10 years for mostly syrup production. Sprouting your cane in water was more successful because the material used was healthy and viable. You used the top of the stalk versus the others were lower parts. This is scientifically flawed to begin with. If you tried sprouting the lower parts in water, I will bet that none of them would have made it. Water causes root rot in sugar cane and the roots can die. It looks to me like the lower parts of your stalk that you planted had bad eyes/buds. Therefore, they failed. They would have failed in water also. (Always get freshly cut healthy looking cane with firm eyes) Commercial growers plant directly in the ground about 3 inches deep--depending on soil type. Water is essential to keep the planted cane from drying out until it has time to sprout. Dryness at any time can kill the eyes. Commercially, we don't space the sections out in the ground but place the sections next to each other (and sometimes even plant 2 lines of stalks) to get a good stand of cane. Thanks for your video.

I know some guys in Columbia who grow a lot of caine.

Thank you! I moved to central Florida and, I’m picking my plants carefully! GREAT information!

I started some sugar cane about ten years back. I took a clear plastic shoe box and filled it three quarters full of potting mix, watered well, placed the cane flat half buried in the soil. In a few weeks I could see roots growing through the soil and sprouts growing up. At that point I potted them and later set them out in the garden. They did well but froze during the winter even though I live along the texas coast. I might try again sometime.

Nice video and sugar canes are good keep up the good videos.

Thank you for making this video and yes I did learned something

wonder if they have seeds thank you for your time .

Thanks for sharing. I just started my sugarcane batch of 8 nodes. I'm starting them off in a jar of water. I'm hoping they're gonna be a successful growth here in southern california.

This was an awesome informative video. I wish more people would update as you have. Thank you!

I love chewing sugar cane so this helps me to know what I need to do to start a farm of sugar cane

Great video. Not only do you show how to plant cane, you tested different ways. Thanks

if you plant the sugar cane in some sand next to 1 tile of water, you should be seeing results instantly

I have the best luck starting sugar cane by cutting the cane into lengths of 2 - 3 nodes and then planting in a pot of potting soil but putting the cane in vertically. Each one grows and shows growth within a couple of weeks.

The best way ❤️❤️ soak in water, plant in a pot after they have rooted and replant in the ground when they mature . 😃

Riight.. 80's.. cane. I got you ;)

thank you!

Thank you for doing this sir!

Great experiment. But What didn't you plant them deep into the soil? As per my research, it will sprout best if you plant it some deep in the soil...?? Please, share your view on that.

Stank you so much. I love the over time examples. I can see how it came out!

And Thank You, your video was Great. I learned a Lot. :)

Love that you live in Central Florida like me as well. Always looking for things to grow in this climate. Learning as I go

Oh this was wonderfully helpful!! I'd tried several variations of into the ground directly: varied planting mixtures, sun access, watering, but only one survivor. They just need more attending to than most folks think... perhaps because cane is a type of grass. So mahalo nui loa,, I will try the Florida water care method. Aloha kakou

Nice video! Here's how I juice sugar cane and make juice: Green Planet Farm Presents How to Juice Sugar Cane

Thank you for sharing this video mate.. Much appreciated. - Skorp, Western Australia

Thanks for this! i just bought some cane at a fruit stand in Homestead. I plan to grow it here in Oviedo. This info is perfect.

I grew some in my yard from seed.

Sounds like how you start Ti leaf! I always start my Ti leaf in water first, then transplant to ground! Comes out good👍 can't wait to try sugar cane!

Does this works with the black cane?

very good , thank you .

Lol I’m eating one right now😅

How dose one make "blood meal" if thats how you pronounce it?

I am sugar How is cane

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I want my caine uncut!