Got down to 2°F last night down by the creek

What do you use to measure temperatures on specific parts of your property?

Ah, that makes sense! Thanks!

Somewhere around 0F this morning with no snow cover here. I wrapped several plants, but not all of them.

I'm just hoping these temperature extremes don't become "normal" (it will be 40F here this weekend).

A bamboo stand that is a minimum of one acre!!

I would *really* like to see that.

Well, as an example, in the Profile plants list I see "Semiarundinaria fastuosa", but that is not in the Exchanges search plant list.

Right now the plants list on the "Exchanges" forum search page doesn't match the "Profile" plants list, so there are several plants that can't be searched for on the "Exchanges" page.

Is it possible to use the same list for both?

I've got a small Bashania fargesii in a pot that will need a permanent home in my yard in the next year or two. From what I've read, this one will "really run", and since I don't have unlimited space I've been privately contacting some of the forum members who have this listed in their pla...

As a mass of Arctic cold moves into the Midwest in the next couple of days, I expect all of my first-year-in-the-ground bamboos to take a hit. Leaf burn will show up pretty fast, but how long does it take to see more severe damage? Will I have to wait until Spring to know if I've got bud or culm dam...

P. nigra was the bamboo that made me install rhizome barriers here. It is very aggressive in this area. Kt What area are you in? Dudley, what sort of soil do you have? Although I don't have enough experience to say for myself, the books and other growers seem to say that the rhizomes will go where ...

I use a different type of mole control:



It's not entirely dependable though.

Anybody who uses the "Rodenator Pro", please video it!

I want to see the rodent-loosened culms launch out of the ground.

Thanks Brad! Glad to finally be posting instead of just lurking.

I was just afraid of pulling the rhizome out and breaking off all of the roots -- guess that's not an issue.

Just to be clear, when you dig the long rhizomes, are you leaving soil attached, or are you essentially getting them out "bare root"? I imagine it being pretty simple to pull up the rhizomes with roots intact when the soil is loamy and loose (just yank it up out of the ground), but heavy c...

Are these "large rhizome divisions" dug undisturbed with soil still intact, or are they dug up and repotted? I'm assuming they're longer rhizomes dug then repotted -- if so, what length do you typically use? I'll most likely be doing some culmless rhizome divisions this year, and want to h...

Does this mean that taking a rhizome(no culms) right before shooting season and potting it would give decent results? I've only taken 2 divisions, both from the same parent plant, both at the same time. Phyllostachys aureosulcata grove that was quite mature -- 15 years or more, hard to judge the he...