[Syrupmakers] cane billets (Was: information)

[Bill Outlaw]

Hi, Sam,

Thanks very much for your comments re the Ozark meeting.  I had 
planned to go, but wound up having to work that Saturday.  Ugh.

One recommendation is to cut seed cane into sections that contain 
three joints.  It is a toss-up.  Disease potentially enters wherever 
the cane is cut, but an emerging bud does suppress development of 
other buds.   At the other end, many folks don't cut the stalks at 
all; I didn't this year.

Bill
(sc, Tally, sitting here wondering whether my raspberry tangor made 
it through the 25 degree night last night?)

At 10:04 PM 1/20/2008, you wrote:


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>From: sjmcbroom1 at hotmail.com
>To: syrupmakers at syrupmakers.com
>Subject: information
>Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:58:27 +0000
>
>I did enjoy the Ozark tastin.
>I was the score keeper. There were a couple of errors made by me, 
>and I do apologize to those offended. It was my first time, and I 
>tried real hard to get it right. The errors were mine, and I take 
>full responsibility.
>One problem was with the numbers on the bottles getting rubbed off. 
>I sure did not expect that, but I got that one worked out OK. We 
>have got to find a better way to label the bottles.
>When i started my personal tastin, I got a sheet of paper, and 
>recorded the bottle number, in the order that i tasted them, and 
>gave each one a rating number, from 0 to 9. This was a great help to 
>me to keep up with my ratings. It was also key to solving the 
>problem of which number got rubbed off.
>
>I was really surprised when i got through, that none were lower than 
>6, and only had one 9. I thought there would be a greater spread in 
>ratings.    It was all good.
>
>The other thing i learned was when the guy said that the stalk of 
>cane had one purpose--- to reproduce.  He said that the first blade 
>of green that reached the sunshine would pull the resources of the 
>complete stalk to grow, pulling energy from all the other buds.
>In the future, I will cut my stalks between each knuckle, so that 
>each bud will have an equal chance to make a stalk.
>So tell me,  have i got this right????
>Sam McBroom
>
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