Re: red sugar
- Subject: Re: red sugar
- From: John MacGregor j*@earthlink.net
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:13:26 -0800
on 11/24/03 11:26 PM, Bruce Peters at bruce@brucepeters.com wrote:
> When you say 'red sugar' are you talking about what I call purple? Often
> goes under names such as Pele's Smoke?
Yes, that's what I have been talking about. I am presuming that was the
object of Nan's query.
> 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!
In Pasadena it often gets to the lower thirties at night, and most years it
drops into the upper- or mid-twenties at least once or twice. That is what
it doesn't like. Although it has managed to survive, it is getting smaller
every year. The clump has not multiplied much, and it was only about 4-5
feet tall this year.
> 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
That is how it grew for me the first year it was planted. Once it went
through a cold winter, it hasn't been the same.
John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9 Sunset zones 21/23
