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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Drought effect on cold hardiness
- Replies: 0
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Drought effect on cold hardiness
Maybe this has been discussed before, but I've now got some pretty good data about this, so thought I'd post again. If you live where it gets pretty cold even for a short time, your bamboos will really suffer if they are drought-stressed! For the last two years, here in St. Louis we've had pretty dr...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Prominens and Shanghai 3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 944
Re: Prominens and Shanghai 3
The "problem" is Facebook -- that's where most of the bamboo discussion is these days I'm sure. Not to hijack the thread, but we have mostly mild winters these years, but with possible (probable?) brutal cold snaps. Like last year -- we had at least 2-3 days in a row with lows in the negat...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:55 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Identification
- Topic: Phyllostachys humilis #1? #2?
- Replies: 1
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Re: Phyllostachys humilis #1? #2?
I don't grow humilis, but those nodes do not look like the top photo in the link you posted.
- Fri Apr 14, 2023 4:33 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Winter Kill
- Replies: 19
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Re: Winter Kill
Very helpful! Here in the midwest we got more of that arctic blast than you did out east -- I've got very few green leaves left on any Phyllostachys, although most are leafing back out. I suspect dulcis is KTG (killed to ground, or "top killed"), and it looks like arcana was too, and rubro...
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:39 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Large Grove Removal With Photos
- Replies: 8
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Re: Large Grove Removal With Photos
How long will the tiny bunches of leaves that form beneath the mower level stay alive? It seems that when I remove a shoot that's in the lawn, that little tuft keeps growing forever. Or is that only because the main grove is still feeding it?
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:24 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Large Grove Removal With Photos
- Replies: 8
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Re: Large Grove Removal With Photos
I don't have experience with a grove of this scale and age, but I have one main question: how likely is it that every single rhizome will be removed, especially the ones far from the grove? Maybe that's not a concern, especially since they'll be removing the great majority of them, but still... It s...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Winter Kill
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5060
Re: Winter Kill
Don't assume it's dead yet -- there have been years when every leaf has gone brown (like this year), but then the culms leaf out again in the spring. One it starts warming up a bit (March maybe) take a look at the branches to see if leaf buds are expanding. If so, don't cut it down as it's not dead!
- Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:12 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Saving newly planted waterlogged bamboo
- Replies: 12
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Re: Saving newly planted waterlogged bamboo
Just let those create whatever little branches or shoots or leaves that they want to -- it's a good thing and shows that the plant is alive! (And wanting to store energy so it can start getting bigger again)
- Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:10 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: My first removal/move of a bamboo in several years!
- Replies: 1
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My first removal/move of a bamboo in several years!
I'm about to undertake a digup-and-move of my Ph. nigra -- which I know other people have said is starting to flower. I had a nice little grove of this some years back, but it topkilled during a harsh winter so I removed it, and replaced with Ph. heteroclada. As you may know heteroclada takes a looo...
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 6:45 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: red margin bamboo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2505
Re: red margin bamboo
Is that a pond with a liner? I'd be concerned about rhizomes poking holes.
Also remember that bamboo drops leaves and sheaths most of the year (it seems).
Also remember that bamboo drops leaves and sheaths most of the year (it seems).
- Wed May 25, 2022 1:29 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
- Replies: 76
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Re: Phy Propinqua ‘Beijing’ Flowering
My Propinqua 'Beijing' was removed a few years ago, but escaped rhizome remnants still put up thin shoots every year -- those meter-tall droopy ones. Every one of them is covered in flowers still.
- Sat Mar 26, 2022 12:59 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Winter roost, fertilizer boon
- Replies: 7
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Re: Winter roost, fertilizer boon
My groves are all smaller so can't really support big flocks, but they're definitely winter night roosts for the local birds, mainly sparrows and the like. It's noisy in a satisfying way IMO.
Will that guano be the only fertilizer applied? (or will it replace what you normally use?)
Will that guano be the only fertilizer applied? (or will it replace what you normally use?)
- Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:53 pm
- Forum: Bugs, beasts and diseases
- Topic: Need Help With Asian Lemon Bamboo !
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2194
Re: Need Help With Asian Lemon Bamboo !
I don't have any experience with tropical bamboos, but I would suggest trying less water, especially if there is any indication that the soil is staying soggy. Maybe even stop watering altogether. Or stop watering part of the hedge and see if that part starts doing better. If this is a fungal issue,...
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:26 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: A moment of silence for all the dead and dying bamboos
- Replies: 16
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Re: A moment of silence for all the dead and dying bamboos
Are you able to pull any of the culms down and tarp over them? I did that last year when we had an arctic blast -- grabbed a few smaller culms, tied them together, then pulled them down and tied to a stake. Then tarped over that. The idea is to keep some culms with green leaves... better than topkill!
- Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:59 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Awesome bamboo division tool!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2347
Re: Awesome bamboo division tool!
Word of warning about the tamper tool: if you put it into the ground upright while taking a rest, make sure nothing is around it.
I did this a few years back and the thing was slightly off-center and toppled over after a few minutes (so heavy)... right onto my camera.
I did this a few years back and the thing was slightly off-center and toppled over after a few minutes (so heavy)... right onto my camera.