NicholasNicholas wrote:Without a proper setup using control groups, a reasonable sample size and of course the same conditions and clones this is all just a lot of educated guessing and gut feeling.
The same goes for tying culms apart. You might get a bit more photosynthesis but in dry areas you could increase the evaporation rate to a point where it is detrimental to the plant.
What I am trying to say is that by all means people should pamper their plants if they have the time and energy for it but there is probably only so much you can do before you kind of "max out" what can be achieved and any effort on top of that will only have a tiny effect.
I couldn't agree more. A good scientific study is what's needed to prove such things given all the variables. This probably exists somewhere - India or China would be first guesses - where bamboo production is hot. I would not be tying my culms apart; after how many 10s of thousands of years bamboos themselves have surely worked out their best stance for maximum growth and survival. What is sad is that we cannot view Phyllostachys spp. in the wild where they originally existed to see what those conditions were truly like, they were surely maximal qand we could have learned so much.
14c & overcast, torrential rains yesterday.