BooNut's bamboo goal

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:06 am

BooNut in south Texas is in the quest to grow the biggest bamboo in the USA. I think I found an image showing what BooNut is after:

rfgpitt · Post by **rfgpitt** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:15 am

My how Kentuck has aged!

kudzu9 · Post by **kudzu9** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:59 am

That's the smallest guy I've ever seen!

rob e · Post by **rob e** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:36 am

That's not kentuck. that's allen.
they look alike but kentuck is shorter

BooKing · Post by **BooKing** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:06 am

That's some scary bamboo...

wish I had it and planted it along the property line.

Post by **David** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:51 pm

Those 2 inch culms just make him look small.

Roy · Post by **Roy** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:33 pm

Maybe this will give you a little better idea of the bamboo size and relationship to man in the picture:

Iowaboo · Post by **Iowaboo** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:55 pm

Those 2 inch culms just make him look small.

Thanks Roy for the closeup. I can see the smurf now.

Jeff: Igor's Apprentice · Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:55 pm

It would be fun to build a tree house up in that stuff. The trick would be transferring support duty from older culms to newer culms for long term success.

Cactus Joe · Post by **Cactus Joe** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:13 pm

My first impression was "Wow! What a tiny guy!"

A split second later, it changed to "Holy cow! What humongous bamboos!"

Then, thoughts turned to digital doctoring.

Ultimately, I remain awestruck by accepting the fact that those are indeed the biggest bamboos I have ever seen (pictures of).

Jeff: Igor's Apprentice · Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:25 pm

If you extend a line straight upwards from the seam on the shoulder of his jacket and you extend a line straight to the right from the bottom of his earlobe, the intersection lies at the tip of a nose. But who is this cloaked figure? Inquiring minds want to know.

Bill Howard · Post by **Bill Howard** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:59 pm

That's my Uncle Morie ..... He went for a walk 11 years ago... Now we know what happened to him.

His SS checks are still coming. We'll send them to boonut and he can pass them along.

boonut · Post by **boonut** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:53 am

That is what I'm talkin' about.... WOW. That's the way Texas boo is supposed to look like.

Here is a a couple of pictures I received from Harry Simmons from BambooResearch:

I am going to hook up a 12" irrigation pipe to my giganteus with drip ammonium sulphate and "Superthrive". Then I am going to feed it ground up runners for dessert.

boonut · Post by **boonut** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:58 am

Anyone have a "tool" big enough to get a rhizome division off of that one? I am ready to make a trip!!!

rfgpitt · Post by **rfgpitt** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:18 am

Aren't you from Texas? Just put full metal jackets in one of your guns!

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