Bambusa Tuldoides ‘Millennium’
Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:59 pm
Around the turn of the century (2001), I had my Bambusa Tuldoides flower for a couple of years. I was able to get some seeds, and lucky enough to get some seedlings. I did mail some people some seeds, but I don’t have a memory clue as to which people.
After a couple of years, my Bambusa Tuldoides quit flowering and returned to its regular growth pattern of producing new culms. About 5 years, after the flowering ceased, I needed the spot for something else, so I dug out my original Bambusa Tuldoides, potted them up and sold them over a several year period.
I still had my 35-40 B.T. seedings, which I named Bambusa Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ to distinguish them from my original Bambusa Tuldoides.
Around 2010, my Bambusa Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ seedlings had gotten large enough that I could divide them up and sell. By 2012, I only had a 3 gal. “runt of the litter” left, so I kept it for myself.
I planted the “runt of the litter” Bambusa Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ in 2012. Watered and fertilized (6-6-6) for the next 5 years. By late Summer of 2017, I decided I wasn’t pleased with the growth, height and culm diameter, of my then 16 year old B. Tuldoides ‘Millennium’.
In the Fall of 2017, I dug out 4 large clumps (3-5 culms in each clump). My tallest culm was 25 feet tall with the pendulous tip straighten out on the ground. The culm diameter maximum being 1 & 3/8th inches. Almost 1 & 1/2 inches. B. Tuldoides usually grows in the 2.25 to 2.50 diameter culm size, and usually around the 50 plus foot mark in Tampa, Florida. [[As a comparison, which many may be familiar with, my Bambusa gracilis gets in the low 30 foot range.]]
I used my truck to drag them to their new homes (planting holes), planted and staked them in a row next to my water spigot. I usually water my potted bamboo daily during Spring, Summer, Fall, except when it rains. 2-3 times a week in the Winter. A little 6-6-6 fertilizer occasionally.
In the Summer of 2018, the new 2018 culms ranged in the 15-17 foot range, with the largest diameter culm being 15/16th of an inch.
At first I was disappointed in the growth of my runt of the litter, B. Tuldoides ‘Millennium’, but now I’m thinking an erect 25 foot max bamboo might be a winner. My B. textilis ‘Kanapha’, planted in the same area, makes the B. Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ look like a tropical dwarf bamboo.
The Summer rains are “acoming’, so I’ll soon be able to see what this Summer brings forth.
[[Pictures are at Bambooweb.info (filed under Bamboo Pictures: Bambusa tuldoides), which I uploaded many years ago]]
After a couple of years, my Bambusa Tuldoides quit flowering and returned to its regular growth pattern of producing new culms. About 5 years, after the flowering ceased, I needed the spot for something else, so I dug out my original Bambusa Tuldoides, potted them up and sold them over a several year period.
I still had my 35-40 B.T. seedings, which I named Bambusa Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ to distinguish them from my original Bambusa Tuldoides.
Around 2010, my Bambusa Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ seedlings had gotten large enough that I could divide them up and sell. By 2012, I only had a 3 gal. “runt of the litter” left, so I kept it for myself.
I planted the “runt of the litter” Bambusa Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ in 2012. Watered and fertilized (6-6-6) for the next 5 years. By late Summer of 2017, I decided I wasn’t pleased with the growth, height and culm diameter, of my then 16 year old B. Tuldoides ‘Millennium’.
In the Fall of 2017, I dug out 4 large clumps (3-5 culms in each clump). My tallest culm was 25 feet tall with the pendulous tip straighten out on the ground. The culm diameter maximum being 1 & 3/8th inches. Almost 1 & 1/2 inches. B. Tuldoides usually grows in the 2.25 to 2.50 diameter culm size, and usually around the 50 plus foot mark in Tampa, Florida. [[As a comparison, which many may be familiar with, my Bambusa gracilis gets in the low 30 foot range.]]
I used my truck to drag them to their new homes (planting holes), planted and staked them in a row next to my water spigot. I usually water my potted bamboo daily during Spring, Summer, Fall, except when it rains. 2-3 times a week in the Winter. A little 6-6-6 fertilizer occasionally.
In the Summer of 2018, the new 2018 culms ranged in the 15-17 foot range, with the largest diameter culm being 15/16th of an inch.
At first I was disappointed in the growth of my runt of the litter, B. Tuldoides ‘Millennium’, but now I’m thinking an erect 25 foot max bamboo might be a winner. My B. textilis ‘Kanapha’, planted in the same area, makes the B. Tuldoides ‘Millennium’ look like a tropical dwarf bamboo.
The Summer rains are “acoming’, so I’ll soon be able to see what this Summer brings forth.
[[Pictures are at Bambooweb.info (filed under Bamboo Pictures: Bambusa tuldoides), which I uploaded many years ago]]