FREE: 25 Rox Orange Sorghum Seeds

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Rox orange is an old time sorghum favorite for syrup. Many an old timer poured this delicious syrup on a hot plate of pancakes or corncakes! My grandfather used to give us pieces of mature cane heart at Christmas so we could chew it like "candy cane". We always thought it was a treat.

Rox Orange sorghum is grown like corn, but prefers well drained sandy loam. Rox Orange will grow to 8 ft. tall and can be cut for silage after 70-80 days, or be used for livestock grain if left to full maturity. The seed yield in addition to syrup can be heavy, yielding up to 500 pounds of seed per acre and higher.
Very well adapted to well drained loam and will mature in any area with a long enough growing season for corn.

1) Very easy to grow and propagate . . . great for brown thumbs
2) It looks cool, kinda like bamboo with longer leaves
3) If you grow it outside a tropical zone, your neighbors will refer to you as “eccentric”
4) You can eat it (or make juice from it). Yummy
5) Slicing the stalks into segments lengthwise makes them into great skewers for bbq’ing shrimp. Also yummy
6) Makes a good privacy screen to shield your crazy activities from the neighbors. Not yummy, but useful
It also has a couple negatives:
1) The leaves are sharp. Don’t plant a field of Sorghum and then run through it "nekkid" . . . you’ll be sorry!
2) Occasional dry leaf removal is required (see note above, use gloves and long sleeves)
3) Ants like it too (plant it away from the house)
4) Starting your own residential sugar plantation and becoming a sugar baron may make neighbors jealous.