I came across a French forum thread http://lesbambous.fr/forum/les-petits-n ... -t821.html

and this had a picture with very tiny sized divisions perhaps 3 inch sized pots as shown here.


I would imagine that these weigh next to nothing for very efficient shipping through the EU, but I'm not sure exactly how they make divisions like that which don't look like TC boos either. With a mature rhizome being close to an inch in diameter, it seems almost impossible to get under a 1 gallon sized division so I'm guessing these guys keep separate division groves in a juvenile stage by separation rhizome connections between culms during the fall so they keep making smaller and smaller culms.

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Steve, I am pretty sure I read somewhere that some nurserymen use a technique like what you described to propagate larger bamboos, though I don't really know any details. From what I can tell, at least some of the 1gal mail-order plants I have gotten were probably made this way, not sure though. I have also gotten bamboos from ebayers and forum members that were grown in 3-4 inch pots and the rhizomes were pencil-thin. I got bory, Robert Young, Phyllo humilis, and some others (including groundcovers which aren't as hard to get small diviisions of anyway) in such small pots. They seem to be vigorous and doing fine but I assume it adds at least a year to the plants' maturation time over getting even good 1 gal plants. For me, though, as long as a plant is viable the cheap plant cost and shipping outweighs the negatives of waitimg a bit longer for the plant to get big. Plants that small, though, get container grown to at least 5-10 gal size before they go in the yarden

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