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This is what happens when you get lazy about keeping the electric fence hot, and have penned your horses up for awhile to let the other pasture grow. I still can't figure out how they reached the entire plant over the fence, but once they got a taste they demolished all three plants in three days.

This used to be a nice stand of arrow, black, and arrow bamboo (front to back). Hopefully it'll come back next spring, but this sure won't do anything to help it put on size... :sad7:

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Bummer.
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It probably will not hurt them much if at all. The plants were pretty much finished storing energy for this year anyway, and next spring's leaves and new shoots should make up the difference. If it was going to happen this (IMO) was best time. You might want to kick over some of the smallest shoots next year to help prevent lost energy in shoots that might abort anyway. (My personal experience has been that removing some of the smaller shoots reduces the number of aborted shoots- disclaimer: Your results may differ.)
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Shoots emerge before new leaves do, so don't count on spring leaves to contribute. That's why we cold climate growers do what we do to try and keep green leaves on the plant through the winter.
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Here's to hoping! They were doing so well this year too...
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