[Syrupmakers] sugarcane(above ground suckering)

[Bill Outlaw]

Director
South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station
Mississippi State University
PO Box 193
Poplarville, MS 39470
Phone (601) 795-4525

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bill
(sc, Tally, picked some nice muscadines this morning)

At 08:52 AM 8/12/2008, you wrote:
>While this is my 1st year and it is just a percentage of the cane 
>maybe 5%. I guess I'll try to cut that down and dig it up.
>
>Also, Can ya'll give me the name and phone number to the person I 
>need to talk to in Poplarville, MS about getting seed cane. I move 
>about a month ago and must have misplaced it.
>
>
>Thanks,
>JT
>
>
>
>In a message dated 8/12/2008 6:42:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time, 
>rharrison922 at yahoo.com writes:
>J T,
>    This is commonly believed to be caused by a virus, but not 
> always. It was recommended to me by USDA folks to cut the cane down 
> and dig up the stubble to avoid increasing the virus. I did that to 
> a part of a row of red/purple chewing cane 1 year.
>    However, I had some Black Cambodian(only 1 hill of it) that did 
> this the first year it was planted(2006). I cut 1 or 2 good-looking 
> stalks(no sprouts above ground) from the hill to try and salvage 
> it--because it was all that I had of it---and planted it (and it 
> did okay). The remaining cane I simply cut to the ground just 
> before Winter and the next year(2007) it came back from 
> stubble--amazingly with no above ground suckers that year!
>     Truth is stranger than fiction, I say.
>     So would I advise to destroy the cane(and stubble) with above 
> ground suckers? I'd say if you only have a small percentage of 
> stalks with abnormally suckering , then dig up the diseased plants 
> for insurance. If you have a high percentage of plants like that, 
> maybe consider leaving it alone this year. Personally, I wouldn't 
> plant the stalks that have the abnormal suckering.
>      I generally watch my seedcane very carefully and discard any 
> that looks like it may have some of this above ground suckering 
> characteristic----to avoid any possibilty of increasing a virus.
>      By the way, the major effect that I noticed from this 
> suckering is that it seemed to sap the sugar out of the stalk. The 
> cane would not be very sweet below where the suckering took place.
>      I have had cane sucker near the bottom, in the middle, and 
> near the top. Thankfully it isn't too prevalent.
>      Hope some of this helps.
>                                                  Richard
>
>--- On Mon, 8/11/08, DBACrownhoney at aol.com <DBACrownhoney at aol.com> wrote:
>From: DBACrownhoney at aol.com <DBACrownhoney at aol.com>
>Subject: [Syrupmakers] sugarcane
>To: syrupmakers at syrupmakers.net
>Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 9:35 PM
>
>Hey everybody I got a quick question. Is my sugarcane supposed to 
>have little sprouts coming off the side of the stalk about 2 feet up 
>the side from the ground
>
>Thanks,
>JT
>
>
>
>
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