[Syrupmakers] late sorghum

[jay shumpert]

TC,
when is your average first frost in the area of Kansas
that you are located?
Jay
--- G Wilson <glenarchie at webtv.net> wrote:

> Jay
> 
>       I don't plant until June 15th and cut my
> sorhum the first and second weeks in October.  It
> has worked well for me.
> 
> T C Wilson
> Eureka, Kansas
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jay shumpert
> Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2008 8:50 PM
> To: Syrupmakers
> Subject: [Syrupmakers] late sorghum
> 
> Hello all,
> Has anyone planted a late crop of sorghum for syrup?
> I'm considering a late crop that would be ready
> perhaps a few weeks before the sugar cane is cut.
> Here
> in S.C. our first killing frost is usually in nov.
> Would the cool nights affect the cane. I feel that
> it
> would surely grow somewhat slower in its latter
> maturity stages. Or would the late planting cause
> the
> sorghum not be suitable for syrup? Also it shure
> would
> be nice to be able to Cut-Mill-&cook when it is not
> so
> HOT here.
> Thanks,
> Jay
> 
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
>      
>
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