Sorghum : Growing and Harvesting

- Very small gene pool. Diversity is key! Not GMO, but “promiscuously pollinated:” Check out landrace gardening. There’s some really cool work being done by Joseph Lofthouse, Dave Christensen, and Matt Powers (I’m sure there are many many more)
- Where did you find your seeds?
Tu polecam zerknąć spółki w Estonii , jak nie to nie wiem. - Can I grow Bob's red mill sorghum??
- What type of sorghum are you harvesting
- The global sorghum market is anticipated to witness a rapid growth on account of increase in demand for forage sorghum in livestock feed especially in the Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Interesting facts about the industry: https://goo.gl/JrVHgB
- Uh huh. AND WHERE ARE THE HOOKERS???
- Consider your genetic diversity. It's most likely your growing seed from the same bunch. Take a small number of seed off of one head and go to another area of the field and get another small number. You seem to have a large field, but if they all grew from the same head of sorghum, you're inbreeding. It needs to pollinate from a variety of different unrelated sorghum. People who grow from small plots have this problem often.
- Thanks for the video! Do you know what growing zones this grows in. I am in zone 4 and am not sure if this can grow where i live. Thanks!
- i got my tooth pulled now ive got a Sorghum.
- I guess that it's not recommended for horses because of the high sugar content. Laminitis can be caused in some horses and smaller ponies by high starch and sugar consumption.
- Old fashioned seed - meaning that which brought us from the inception of life on this planet to the last, what 50? 100? years.
- Cool! have you guys tried making sorghum molasses? that'd be cool!
- Hi Good day- I am attempting to grown sweet sorghum in the West Indies - Trinidad and Tobago, they were planted in January and now the heads are comming out. From what I can see the sorghum has have seen the rust -puccinia purpurea. But the sorghum on the stalk has a powdery white substance. The florets do not appear to have ergot and do not have the "honeydue", There does not appear to be any downy mildew on the leaves. This is the first time I have ever planted sorghum. Your response will be greatly valued.
- great keep up the good work....
- @Survival HT anyway to get the sorghum seed and get the sweet stuff from it at the same time?
- Great for making craft beer.
- I just threw them into a shallow little hole along with sunflower seeds and kicked dirt over it,come harvest time i got me both sourghum and sunflower seeds for bird feeds.....
- I grew them for bird seeds.....
- BUT.... I get my seeds from Kirstenbosch, so they are 100% non-GME (GE, transgenic)
- Rub off the wiry outside and pop 'em like popcorn, or stick them in a blender (not too fine) and make "Maltabela" porridge - dee-licious. * Maltabela is a brand name for sorghum porridge in South Africa. Sorghum ground also makes really tasty rusks- and it's VERY good for you!