Ba-Ye-Qi - Sorghum
This very early-maturing variety, grown for its seeds, produces panicles with large red grains. They are used to make flour and can also be cooked like rice or quinoa.
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in the ground
Sow light-colored, directly in place, in well-warmed soil, in rows 60 cm apart. Cover with 2 cm of fine soil. After emergence, thin out to leave one plant every 30 cm.
Sensitive to competition, Sorghum requires weed control from the 3-leaf stage onwards. Harvest panicles in autumn, before frost, when the grains have become hard. They need heat to ripen.
April
April, May, June
August, September, October
in the ground
sunny
low
clayey, limestone, humus, sandy
reheated, sec
Sorghum bicolor
very early
20 grams
Red
From 120 to 180 cm
China
Adaptive Seeds
This variety comes from the Nei Mongol Autonomous Region in northern China. Sorghum is used there to make beer and liqueur. Adaptive seeds has collected seeds from Sherck Seeds in Indiana, and is thus helping to propagate its seeds.