Friday, July 22, 2011

Sorghum Cane Update

Early yesterday morning, Richard rototilled inbetween the rows of the Sorghum Cane.  He and Melanie also worked on weeding inbetween the plants by hand today.  That job is about 1/3 done.  The ground is almost like powder after all this heat and no rain recently.  The Sorghum Cane is spotty but it is growing.  Some of it looks pretty good.
However, on this day, Melanie and Richard noted that some of the leaves were beginning to take on reddish brown streaks. We had some of this coloring later in the season last year.  Actually, the Cane begins to take on red brown streaks when it is closer to being ripe.  Well, Folks, the Sorghum Cane is far from ripe here in the middle of July.

Melanie brought some samples for me to take pictures of.  We are wondering if our friends Stan and Gigi up at Sandhill have some ideas about what might be going on. The following message is from the 3 C's on Butterfly Hill Farm to our friends Stan and Gigi:  "Hey, up there.  How ya doin'?  How's your Sorghum crop?  Any ideas about what is going on here? Stay cool."


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