Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-94.210.242.193-20130125145944/@comment-128.208.36.148-20130125162928

Vanilla planting doesn't care whether sugarcane is on dirt or sand. It grows at the same rate.

But this is tekkit, which has industrial craft 2.

basically, you need to go  up to the top of your world for best results as you plant sugarcane into crop (sticks). however, for truly fast growth, you'll need fertilizer (scrap and bonemeal),  a cropnalyzer (to select only high growth and gain crops), crop matrons, plenty of eu, and...

In short, you'll want LOTS of resources. But since you'll get lots of other cool crops it's worth it.