manteiga turns yellow when cooked and tastes better, is creamier. i peeled them, steam them, then fry them - delicious! cuttings are potted up and in the greenhouse awaiting to be planted in early spring. planting to harvest was about 8 months.
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So it could be grown as an annual?
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yes, i’m in coastal northwest Florida 8b (supposed to be 9a).
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Yum!
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Very cool! Do you do anything to get the cuttings to root, or that happens easily? Do you grow them in ground or containers? Apologies I know nothing about cassava except for how to use the flour baking (weekly). If there was any hope of getting a crop in a container, I would try.
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I did not know they have some for mostly flour use and others as a root veggie.
Sounds like an interest secondary to our various potato efforts.
i stick the cuttings in soil, i pot mine up because my winters are not warm enough and keep them in a greenhouse (heated), make sure you have several nodes buried. i plant out the rooted cuttings in the spring after my last frost. you can try containers, they just might be small roots.
both sweet and bitter varieties can be ground up for flour. most of the ones that are grown here in FL are varieties that have been selected for low cyanide content and are less bitter, and are called “sweet.” usually older cassava is used for making into flour. but i have a short growing season and 8 months is about the minimum for planting to harvest. i heard it is more fibrous after 1 year.
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