Sugar cane

[Stevie Martens]

I was wonder has anyone tried growing sugar cane or believe sugar cane can be grown using aquaponics?

[Eric Warwick]

I don't see why it can't be grown in aquaponics, but since it's an unusual  crop, for most of us, to grow; I would research hat conditions are needed, eg: oxygen. One way to cut down on research is to translate soil to hydroponics, eg: less water= less of a flood or, more air pumps. Test it out and good luck.

[Chi Ma]

Only roadblock you would have to figure out is how to support it once it gets big.

[TCLynx]

Might be challenging to deal with the stubble after you harvest.  Don't they burn the residues in the fields after harvest normally?

 

I've never grown any so I don't really know what the plants are like.  I've heard they do a rotation between sugar cane and rice here in FL, mainly to reduce the pests by drowning them while growing the rice.

[Kobus Jooste]

I'm sure it will work, but it is a thirsty plant is it not?  I have a large passion fruit vine in my system and I lost so much water in the summer daily that I started looking for a leak.  Are you considering a mono-crop? Over here, it gets very tall and I assume it is the same all over the world, making it a potential light issue for you too.  The moment you have something that big somewhere in your set-up you really have to plan your set-up carefully in relation to light availability.