Re: red sugar

When you say 'red sugar' are you talking about what I call purple? Often
goes under names such as Pele's Smoke? If so, in Mission Hills in San Diego
where it's often rather frigid in winter (well, upper 40's at night) both
the variegated green and the purple grow fantastically! They donšt flower
but get to be about 10 feet tall with thick, sweet canes. Ok, the purple
canes usually get only about 1 to 1.5 inches across but the variegated
easily gets to 2-3 inches.

You can see how big it had gotten in one season in August in this photo

http://www.brucepeters.com/sandiego/8-03/source/sd-aug-2003-006.htm

I have yet to post the ones just taken, but it's added 2-3 feet on top of
that. 

-Bruce


> From: John MacGregor <jonivy@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: jonivy@earthlink.net
> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:35:44 -0800
> To: <Talkingpoints@PlantSoup.Com>, <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Re: red sugar
> 
> on 11/24/03 7:37 PM, Nan Sterman at Talkingpoints@PlantSoup.Com wrote:
> 
> Nan,
> 
>> John, how do you think the red compare to the green?
> 
> I have never grown the green one.
> 
>> I wonder 
>> whether their heat requirements differ - I have green sugar  growing
>> in my garden which is probably not too different from Pasadena (we
>> may not get as hot as Pasadena in the summer) and the green grows
>> like gangbusters (a little too happily, actually).
> 
> I suspect that you are closer to the ocean, and that your nightly
> temperatures don't go as low as ours do.  The red one definitely doesn't
> like cold.  That is all I can tell you.
> 
> John MacGregor
> South Pasadena, CA 91030
> USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23
>
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