Day 80:
Those canes I planted? Like everything else here, they throw like gangbusters. After just a couple of days I was able to cut them at about knee-high and harvest the two meters of cane above that.
The very outside of the cane is thick and hard. I might find a use for it. Fortunately (much like the wood) it splits easily, so I’m able to cut it in half without too much trouble.
The inside is pulpy and sweet-smelling.
I’m going to try chopping the pulpy bits really fine, then spreading them on a stone with a ridge around the edge to collect the juice. If the juice is sugary, it should crystallize for me once its squeezed out of the pulp. And if the pulp is chopped fine enough and mixed up well enough I might be able to make paper out of it.
I certainly have enough stone to set on top to press the liquid out, that’s for sure.
