needmore wrote:...I greatly culled back the 'allowable' space that my Semiarundinaria okuboi may have, doing so by cutting down the prior years canes and mowing that area. Right now there are dozens of shoots from it coming up 15'-20' beyond where the previous canes had been. Really smart guy this one, all of these wayward shoots are well larger than those coming up where I want it.
Maybe it has such a mischevious-sounding name for a reason then.
My guess is that voles/shrews have been chomping the old area - pretty good, leaf litter had built up there, but the long rhizomes out in the yard are probably not chooped up and have more energy.
At first I thought "typo", but I think it's actually chewed + chopped = chooped. I like it.
yep it happens alot, but dulcis usually makes shoots far apart from each other. Looking at your bamboo compared to mine, it must be your second year with it, breaking the 1 inch mark. Did you get secondary shoots last year after the initial shooting?
Since you grow the same bamboo, you should know why I want another shoot
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Temps are warming up and tomorrow should be the third day this year above 70*F.
New shooters are:
Bashania fargesii
Phyllostachys humilis
Phyllostachys nigra
Phyllostachys nigra 'Bory'
Phyllostachys nuda
Sasa nagimontana
Sasa oshidensis
Sasaella ramosa
Sasamorpha borealis
Semiarundinaria yashadake "Whatever it is" - This plant started out as a division of S. y. 'Kimmei' from Needmore (Thanks) but now has some culms that are yellow with green stripe, or all green, or all yellow.
stevelau1911 wrote:yep it happens alot, but dulcis usually makes shoots far apart from each other. Looking at your bamboo compared to mine, it must be your second year with it, breaking the 1 inch mark. Did you get secondary shoots last year after the initial shooting?
Since you grow the same bamboo, you should know why I want another shoot
Thanks!
Yes, this is the second year. These first shoots are almost the same size as last year's shoots. I see another poking out now, so maybe larger ones will follow when it warms up later this week.
If I remember correctly, dulcis only had new shoots one time last year, but it was later in the summer.
The size of your dulcis shoot is impressive. None of my bamboo are in full sun, so I'm sure all the shade is not helping them size up as much as they would have in a more sunny spot.
I'm thinking I should have at least another dulcis shoot once this one is done elongating and it gained 2 inches from yesterday even with high temps in the 50s.
I only get sunshine the 2nd half of the day for my Dulcis, but its only 6 feet away from my compost pile so it should be more vigorous than other ones. Mine is about 5/8 inch at the base which is a huge upsize from 1/8. I'm also hoping its cold hardier than vivax which got top killed last winter.
dulcis
I'm going to try keeping all my bamboos well watered in order to get as many shoots as possible except for on my aerosulcata which is an over producer.
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Phy parviflora putting up a couple and I had to snap one off coz it was running out of its growing area.
Phy shanghai3 putting out 3 shoots with no upsize from last year.
Phy propinqua- one itty-bitty shoot.
But the best "shoot" of all, a new baby in the family!
There's not much left to come up here now apart from the late shooters, however I wait in earnest for Ph. vivax 'Huanwenzhu' which should be the biggest in the garden, fingers crossed.
Congrats on the baby bamboozal, you'll probably find it'll take a couple of seasons or more to mature though
Thanks, Gaz and Alan!
What's that they say... the first year it sleeps..? ....well, I'm glad somebody gets to..
On a bamboo related note, the hedge of bissetii/aureosulcata/humilis that's bordered with a rhizome barrier is putting out really slow and pathetic growth. New shoots are fewer and smaller than last season's offering. In contrast, a humilis stand that's not barrier-ed is putting out much more gratifying growth.
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I see another poking out now, so maybe larger ones will follow when it warms up later this week.
Congrats!
