Gormandizers or water shoots

• The new incoming shoots coming during the later growth stage of sugarcane which are very vigorous, stout, possessing young, active and viable eye buds are known as ‘Gormandizers’.
• There are immature canes at the harvest time and should not be harvest along with the well matured main shoots and are leftover in the field at the time of harvest of main crop.
• These leftover water shoots, later on, can be very safely used as planting material with assured germination and good stand of crop.
• The gormandizer setts are as good as short crop setts.

Wind drawing canes

• In frost prone area, buds are liable to injured by the frost prevailing during Nov-Jan. Under such situation, farmers growing sugarcane pull out the sugarcane crop intended for planting along with roots and shoots, laid in pits and the pits are then covered with sugarcane trash and earth. These canes are kept in the pit for 2-3 months till there is danger of frost. Later on, these canes are removed from pits , made into sett and planted at suitable planting time (usually Feb- March).The whole process involved is called ‘withdrawing canes’.