Now say it with me.. cloned monocultures are the source of disaster - for example for the cavendish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana#Diseases .. if it comes to sex, you don't fuck around with horny jail and resort to mono-cultured clones. First success then fall.. thus ended the lesson.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish Blind repetition without variation is a deadly disease in itself.
In the house we just sold in Florida, we have sugar cane growing in the backyard. It's wonderful. We could harvest it in the fall and it's so fun to cut up into strips and chew on.
We have and will have plenty of food to feed everyone now and for the foreseeable future, it's just not distributed properly or it's deliberately being prevented by politics and/or greed.
No. Sugar cane only grows in the US in TX, LA, and FL, so that's millions of people who can go their entire lives without seeing unprocessed sugar cane
I remember a field trip when I was around 8. We went to some farm in New Orleans and got to hand pick fresh sugar cane, then we went to a really cool gift shop. On the bus ride back, someone stole my $200 bag of stuff I was taking back for my family. Pretty sure it was my bitch of a teacher, fuck you Patsy!
Not rich, but my brother missed the trip and we knew the teacher outside of school as a “family friend”. Not so much after that trip. Was the first and only field trip we ever “participated” in. Every other time we just skipped school and got ice cream/went to the movies
I understand your belief that you weren't rich, but for many (myself included) the middle class lifestyle you enjoyed as a child makes you rich. I'm middle class now and have a 7yo son. I won't be giving him $200 when he's 8.
Or if you do plant bamboo make sure it's clumping bamboo and not running bamboo. Still annoying to get rid of, but at least they generally only spread a few inches per year.
I wouldn't call it not weed unless it wasn't not knotweed. How else can you confuse the police if they ask if you if you're carrying anything that is illegal that is not knotweed?
QuigleyDownUnder
So any party of the stem of the sugarcane plant will grew into another plant. Good to know.
PicassoCT
Now say it with me.. cloned monocultures are the source of disaster - for example for the cavendish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana#Diseases .. if it comes to sex, you don't fuck around with horny jail and resort to mono-cultured clones. First success then fall.. thus ended the lesson.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish Blind repetition without variation is a deadly disease in itself.
Affray
Cutting machines that operate cyclically and not via pedal/handle spook me the fuck out. Fingers disappear once people get comfy with them.
98oktan
Aww itsa buncha little bamboo knees
throwawayaccount321
Does that method work for bamboo t
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Worst cupcakes ever!
IAmNotNSAsodonotbeparanoid
Sweet
litelbrown
Do plants know which way is up? Or does it just send out a branch and if it's touching dirt it says, that one becomes a root?
BDBottom
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/space-biosciences/plant-gravity-perception-spacex-13/
opossumistic
Finally something that can be made on the floor
Creatrixcreations
My great grandpa worked on a sugar cane farm in PR in the 40s. This is super cool to see
Mydogatemycomments
Put your d*....
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
anotherIngloriousHandle
sweet!
DadOnTheInternet
For anyone wondering it takes 9-16 months from the nodes(planting it) to harvest
jimhotep
Worst cupcakes I have ever had.
xBufferzz
Arm-trimmer
certainlynotaserialkiller
fun fact: bamboo is a grass but is about as resillient as a weed. extremely hard to get rid of.
JT1984
Meanwhile, here in America that shit is horribly invasive
AyatollahBahloni
In the house we just sold in Florida, we have sugar cane growing in the backyard. It's wonderful. We could harvest it in the fall and it's so fun to cut up into strips and chew on.
CorvidPrime
No WONDER I can’t get rid of the bamboo in my yard…
ourari
Less-invasive varieties exist and are now more commonly sold for use in gardens. Knowing that won't do much good for you, though. Sorry.
KnifeKnut
This is sugarcane
whitebbwolf
cut close to ground, leave 5 inches. use a big syringe/pipette n drip RoundUp right in the hollow stems. repeat a couple of times. Success
CorvidPrime
I will try it… Thanks.
whitebbwolf
been doing that in our garden to the shoots coming over from the neighbours garden. its slow going but so far, we ve been victorious
Gruesslibaer
Because you're too deep in a sugar coma to do yard work?
thedewser
Jewdakris
If the world survives it's gonna be constantly doing things like this on a mass scale to provide food
Saigon333
We already do that. It's how we get the food that we have.
Neurisko
We have and will have plenty of food to feed everyone now and for the foreseeable future, it's just not distributed properly or it's deliberately being prevented by politics and/or greed.
nemocares
Isn't that by and large what modern large-scale agriculture is already doing?
Trimule
About 50-50 in the posts. Surely someone actually knows (I don't!) whether this is bamboo or sugar cane.
swedeonamoose
Obviously sugar cane, but i can see whe the americans might struggle, i mean they cant even get cane sugar in their coke /s
Trimule
The good ole' USA proudly consumes about 11 Million metric tons of sugar a year and close to 50% of it is American grown.
jursamaj
Doesn't seem hollow enough for bamboo.
wienerdogsftw
pshht thats not bamboo thats uranium! Oh wait thats bamboo
OhIfIMust
NibblonianNibbler
KevinStrexcorp
Many folks will never have seen it. It was a good, cheap snack in east Africa
BDBottom
https://hafoodtours.com/vietnamese-food-drink/sugarcane-juice-nuoc-mia/
Fresh stuff crushed with a few kumquats is outstanding.
Einstein9073
No. Sugar cane only grows in the US in TX, LA, and FL, so that's millions of people who can go their entire lives without seeing unprocessed sugar cane
somnif
Though it's also sold in grocery stores in many other states beyond those. Hell, there's a dude who sells it out of a grocery cart near me.
SmoeAhsolse
Only ever seen it in mojitos.
LucilleWhoKnowsNot
If a neighbour pissed me off enough I'd secretly plant bamboo and mint in a few places on their property
adiving
Mustard.
ImgurNeedsMoreSmartass
Bamboozled
GabbyJayYay
Bamboo is hollow in the middle. Papaya trunks are too but dont have sections
KnifeKnut
*Sugarcaned
BellsTheorem
It's all just grass.
DunnowForgot
You believe in grass?
BellsTheorem
Every day.
Dogman1227
Oh, I 'touch' grass every day~
VanessaBludgeons
rvp58WebDiver
Sugarcane
MarsIsAfire
in the easy morning
Jordan7831
They’ve got more skills than a green snake in a sugar cane field!
detectivepopcornmmmmm
mantabloke
this doesn't look like high fructose corn syrup
vmos
Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang
ilasid
Cane! Sugar!
dontfloatmygoat
Rock!
tomwaits
Won't you hurry..
CookieMonsterr
100%
Syko73
My 1st thought as well
TacoPoweredHelicopter
My first thought was "that will chafe my Willie"
HandoB4Javert
3andAHalfLivesAgo
I remember a field trip when I was around 8. We went to some farm in New Orleans and got to hand pick fresh sugar cane, then we went to a really cool gift shop. On the bus ride back, someone stole my $200 bag of stuff I was taking back for my family. Pretty sure it was my bitch of a teacher, fuck you Patsy!
nation543
That sucks... You should look up her socials if she's still alive.
NarratesTheDarkerStory
if not leave a dick butt on her memorial page.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
Holy shit $200 given to an 8 year old
WhoDoesntLikeTacos
Who gives an 8 year old $200?
3andAHalfLivesAgo
It was money given to the teacher directly cause she “was” a family friend outside of school
geekykeycap
A business with overpriced goods I hope, since the actual cost wouldn't really be $200. But I could see rich parents doing that as well.
3andAHalfLivesAgo
Not rich, but my brother missed the trip and we knew the teacher outside of school as a “family friend”. Not so much after that trip. Was the first and only field trip we ever “participated” in. Every other time we just skipped school and got ice cream/went to the movies
geekykeycap
I understand your belief that you weren't rich, but for many (myself included) the middle class lifestyle you enjoyed as a child makes you rich. I'm middle class now and have a 7yo son. I won't be giving him $200 when he's 8.
rbudrick
That's the field trip notice printed specially for the rich wine moms.
Cpthornswoggler
Spent over £1000 trying to get rid of a long row of bamboo, it's gone, but every summer it just pops up in random places in the middle of my lawns.
FelineFatal
Are you talking about my yard? I feel as though we have the same yard.
thatwoodguy
Speaking as a landscaping expert, use Roundup
WhichIsIt
Embrace the invasion!
whitebbwolf
cut the stems leave bit left over. use a big syringe/pipette n drip RoundUp right in the hollow stem. repeat a couple of times. Success
stingingnettlegurlL7
Serious request to hear how you got rid of it. I’m trying to remove ivy and bamboo the previous owners planted.
MarineSurfer
Well, the video shows the growing for sugarcane, not bamboo.
KnifeKnut
We are looking at sugarcane here.
hipifreq
Lessons I've learned - never get involved in a land war in Asia and NEVER plant bamboo
DocWino
Or creeping fig and several others. I finally won the fight battle.
Astramancer
Or if you do plant bamboo make sure it's clumping bamboo and not running bamboo. Still annoying to get rid of, but at least they generally only spread a few inches per year.
klomb8888
Is the bamboo Sicilian?
Sarpedan
plant some mint near it, thatll get rid of the bamboo if anything can
Cytos
Then? Guessing oil or salt?
Sarpedan
dont be silly, its mint, you need napalm
toypaj
Or some Knotweed
WhistlePig
Noooooo
thepandasbum
I wouldn't call it not weed unless it wasn't not knotweed. How else can you confuse the police if they ask if you if you're carrying anything that is illegal that is not knotweed?
thepandasbum
Got my 1. I'm good 😋