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White Seeded Popping Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor

A variety of sorghum

A sorghum from the Tarahumara people of Batopilas Canyon in northern Mexico, with sugar-cane-like stems for eating or juicing. The large white seeds are easy to thresh and clean and pop like popcorn. Plants top 2 m and need hot summers, since sorghum evolved in Africa. Transplant from trays at 5 to 10 cm high, 40 cm apart on the diagonal, once soil is 15 °C.

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Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less

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Ecological requirements

Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

Family / Taxonomy Liliopsida
Commelinidae
Cyperales
Gramineae
Optimal temperature 22 - 35 °C
Absolute temperature 8 - 40 °C
Optimal rainfall 400 - 600 mm/year
Absolute rainfall 300 - 700 mm/year
Optimal soil pH 5.5 - 7.5
Absolute soil pH 5.0 - 8.0
Crop cycle 90 - 300 days
Max altitude 2500 m
Life form grass
Life span annual
Habit erect
Optimal soil depth medium (50-150 cm)
Optimal soil texture heavy, medium
Optimal soil fertility high
Optimal soil drainage well (dry spells)
Optimal soil salinity low (<4 dS/m)
Photoperiod short day (<12 hours)
Optimal light very bright

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025) ECOCROP, the crop ecological requirements database. Version 1. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/ecocrop. Accessed through the CGIAR Climate Action Data Hub, https://cgiar-climate-data-hub.github.io/catalog/ecocrop_1/.

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