I wonder if Hawai'i had some different strain of cane than you all because basically when you look the 1st photo in the article - ALL the land you can see was in sugarcane to the mid-1990's when the houses started up after cane went pau. I had a tiny house in the midst of it all, even then, but now if you look to the right side about 2/3rds of the way across photo, the place with the solar panels is my larger house, now. The newly plowed field is going to be purple sweet potato of a neighbor. Our average rainfall is 130 inches. She wrote 84 inches as an average for the whole coast. I not longer eat durians . One tree however can gross $5,000, and has.I've walked past durian stalls in Singapore and Malaysia, but haven't yet had the guts to try it. I regret that and will definitely give them a go the next time I'm in that part of the world.
That coastline looks so green and wet, I'm surprised sugarcane did so well there for so long. Here in Fiji sugarcane was tried in the wet parts of the country in the 1800's but that failed and since then, it's only ever been grown in the dry regions of the two main islands.
Incredible. I wonder how well they'd do in Fiji. I watched a video recently about the most expensive cultivar (Nonthaburi). Apparently a single fruit once sold at auction for $48k. There's massive demand from China.One tree however can gross $5,000, and has.
'Uala in Hawaiian, these sweet potatoes are deep purple with the white skin. The low growing kava in the picture in the "A Passion for 'Awa" portion is originally from Queen Lu'ukia's private 'awa fields deep in Waipi'o Valley. Back in the day--1985-- I could walk down in to the valley and meet up with old Hawaiian men with the truer, now mostly lost Aloha, and they showed me how to find that patch to get just cuttings and offer plants to others.Back in the colonial days we had the ability to very easily source cultivars of all the crops we grew from all across he empire, so I doubt that was a hurdle. Perhaps it's because there's less flat or gently sloping land in the wetter parts of the two main islands. I've never really had an interest in cane as a crop, so never really looked into it.
That's a beautiful spot you have there. Great views, close enough to the ocean, but not so close that the salt rusts everything in your home.
Is the kumala you're talking about the one with purple flesh but white skin? That's my favourite cultivar, and have a few mounds of them growing in my backyard. Delicious, and stunning on a plate next to some greens.
Incredible. I wonder how well they'd do in Fiji. I watched a video recently about the most expensive cultivar (Nonthaburi). Apparently a single fruit once sold at auction for $48k. There's massive demand from China.