I bought mine at Gurneys. The stalks are at 9 ft tall now. You may be right about the stalk as the tubers dont form till after the first frost - seems the plant takes its strength underground. The tubers are the best eating the skin is superb and the center good too real butter is great on these after steaming. I can tell you they take alot of water to get them to do well.
Jim Jason & Katie wrote: >i was reading around after i asked this question, and it seems to me >that the stalks carry a huge portion of the sugar for a time, and then >store it in the roots, and that the more efficient way to collect it is >to cut the stalks like sorghum and the plant (which is basically a weed) >can re-sprout for one or two more cuttings yielding between 250 and 350 >gal/acre per cutting. it isnt really a better supply, it is just a way >to take advantage of the extremely short growing time to its best >potential. and then after the fuel harvest is over, you can thin out the >root stock so you dont have to worry about being overrun by these huge >plants (they are perennial, and it takes quite a bit to kill them, >volunteers are the norm). >does anyone know where i can find some of these things? i want to try >growing a couple. > >On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 11:16 -0700, Kirk McLoren wrote: > > >>Roots. >>They store as inulin. >> >>Kirk >> >>Jason & Katie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> when referring to the harvest of jerusalem artichoke heads do >> you mean >> the tuber roots or the flowers? because 1200 gallons an acre >> is pretty >> damn good by my book. an acre is the size of my parents front >> yard, and >> they dont use that much of it.... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Biofuel mailing list >> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >> >> http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >> Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives >> (50,000 messages): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> >> >> >> >> >>______________________________________________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Next-gen email? Have it all with the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. >>_______________________________________________ >>Biofuel mailing list >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >>http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
