If any of my large bamboos survive the massive flowering we could trade some. I have a lot of ground cover still healthy.

Mine flowered late. all culms and leaves brown over the winter and died . They now nave no leaves and only a little bit of green and survival shoots on the outer circle of the groves. Sad I miss all my bamboo

I so wish I would have posted what this grove of Phy aureosulcata Alata looked like last summer before it all died.

Mine flowed last year and mostly died over the winter with shoots only on new rhizomes far from groves center. This also happened to pretty much every none ground cover bamboo I have except S3. I have not been on in a very long time but will be back posting. I’ll make a list. I pretty much lost my t...

I am still waiting on shoots for paravifolia, dulcus, viridis, vivax inversa and regular vivax both the paravifolia and inversa are over 2 “ so I am excited about seeing what they do this year but I am wondering if I will get shoots at all.

I have saw some basic Yellow Groove around here that was normal but after trimming and herbicide treatment along the road looked just like that. I am curious if the whole grove (if it is large) looks like that or just edges near animals, trimmers or treatment. I will try to grab a pic of some of the...

I got my first bamboo (Alata) for free I saw it growing along the road and just stopped and talked to the owner about it and just asked if I could dig some sometime. My second (Bissetti) I got by replying to craigslist Ad that was selling large poles. I think they were $1 a piece or something but we...

So far I agree that it looks like Alata. I have had some in the ground for I think 7 years. Only a hand full of culms are crookied. Some years they are crookied and some not but never all the culms. It seems to do with the timing of shooting and the weather. Sometimes only 1 or 2 culms in the year w...

First bamboo I got was Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Alata'. But was not one that got me into it really I was able to dig a division down the road from my house never knew it was there until I was telling a friend about the wonderful bamboo forests in Hawaii with beautiful waterfalls. Hawai’i Bamboo i...

I think the plastic would help once you get it to the point of the little tuffs of leaves that are flush with the ground. Clear plasic and a very sunny day might be better as it would burn them (super heat) I wonder if you took a torch (flamethrower) and torched the ground for awhile if that would h...

I am curious as to the status of this. I think it could be effective at killing small new growth it it is very sunny for a while.

Here's a picture of the parvifolia grove as of today. As shown, it's newest culms are even a bit taller than the tallest that emerged in the last couple of years which were probably around 22ft, so the tallest culm completely straightened out may be around 25ft, but there's no measuring method othe...

Here is my experience with S3. I planted S3 from Steve Lau in 12/05/12. 05/22/2013 one shoot of Equal size. 4ft tall about 1/8". 01/30/14 top killed. 05/16/14 top killed but put up 2 shoots 3x previous size about 3/8". 05/10/2015 top killed again but one shoot 2x the size at 3/4 ". 0...

I can't wait to see how this does. If it gets lots and lots of hot sun it may just scorch the new shoots but I think they will grow and either pierce or lift the tarp.

I have heard Phyllosachys dulcis as well but mine didn not live long enough to get shoots. Most of mine are just now getting to the point where I can start harvesting shoots. I would certainly like to know if they are all edible and what are the best. I am getting many now that instead of just kicki...