Boo Shoots for 2014

[JWH]

Fargesia Robusta 'Campbell'

Looks like it'll have a nice upsize and amount of shoots this year!

[mountainbamboonut]

Beautiful. I am scouring the ground night and day waiting to see the same thing!

[JWH]

Fargesia Scabrida and Fargesia Rufa are starting to shoot here.

Scabrida


Rufa

[Tarzanus]

Fargesia murieale started shooting. They are still in slow-growing mode when they can either start growing rapidly or stop for a couple of weeks. I think they will start any day now with 10C temperatures.

Way too early for phyllos to start shooting, but all the rain we've had took away some of the top soil on exposed places that were slightly elevated. I've noticed thick Phyllostachys aureosulcata Spectabilis rhizomes had traveled at least around 3 meters away from the plant. I'm not sure what to expect.
I noticed long runner on my Moso seedling as well. It's a bit beaten by cold and ice we've had this year, but it looks like it traveled a lot last autumn - perhaps too much.

Moso is early shooter so in around 3 weeks, I think first shoots should start poking out of the soil. If above average warm weather continues...

[Tarzanus]

Fargesia murieale

[JWH]

Chimonobambusa Sczechuanensis "Emei II"


Pleioblastus Chino 'Murakamianus'

[JWH]

Pleioblastus Viridistriatus

[mountainbamboonut]

Tarz, when do your Phyllos start shooting for you in Slovenia?

[Tarzanus]

Tarz, when do your Phyllos start shooting for you in Slovenia?

I think that they push out around the same time as where you live. We are zone 7 and moso comes out in the late March to mid April, Aureosulcata starts in late April to early May, aurea also starts around mid to late April, Viridiglaucens in early to mid April...

This year shooting will most likely occur a bit earlier. Despite constant northeastern winds there are no sub zero (Celsius) temperatures. Usually that same wind brings very cold weather at this time of the year from Russian Siberia.

[stevelau1911]

I've found that fargesia rufa will shoot about a week after temperatures are generally above freezing which happens mostly in late March. I guess other fargesias shoot pretty early too. I guess it is about the same time that the earliest phyllostachys will tend to shoot for growers in the south.

If this chart is fairly accurate, that means that shooting should occur before April 1st especially if it ends up jumping into the 60s in the 3rd week of the month. This is still well below average for March, but much better than what we've seen in the past 3 months.


Even if it only gets into the 50s on that week, it should definitely set off some peonies as well as other early sprouters which start growing even when the temperature is barely above freezing. The late February warmup never woke anything up because the snow pack never melted all the way, and it only broke the 40F mark 4 days followed by the typical way below average temperatures we are accustomed to seeing so far this winter.

I really want to see my Anderson moso shoot as it got 100% leaf burn in the greenhouse while still showing a green culm, but I think it's alive. It tried pushing 2 shoots last spring, but both of them failed. I guess it's size would make it far less hardy than the well established bicolor which sits only 2 meters away.

[Tarzanus]

I guess other fargesias shoot pretty early too.

I think there are exceptions. My Fargesia denudata (Lancaster 1) always started in second half of April. If I remember correctly, that was a week or two after Pseudosasa japonica and at the same time as Hibanobambusa tranquilans 'Shiroshima'. It's molested by horde of hungry voles, so it's weak. But I think it is late shooter according to other Fargesia.

[mountainbamboonut]

Tarzanus, that is neat, sounds about the same as here. I just notice some shoots on my rufa but we had an extremely mild winter. Only a handful of days with snow and most of February was sunny and in the high 50's low 60's during the day time. Do you have vivax there? If so I'd be curious when it typically shoots for you.

[Tarzanus]

I don't know about any vivax in vicinity, so I have no idea about its shooting time, but it should be relatively early. I'd guess beginning to mid April.

[Tarzanus]

Moso seedling's first purple shoot. I had to water it for the first time only 3 days after the last rain. Only the potted part of it that started curling it's leaves. I can tell with 100% certainty, it's awake!

Soil temperature at 5cm depth is 4C and 10 cm below the soil level 5.5C. Sun exposed soil is warmer.

[stevelau1911]

From what I've seen, green moso shoots only turn purple due to the sheath's exposure to sunlight.

I think it takes temperatures a lot warmer than 5.5C to push hairy black shoots. If your more mature mosos have put out fat rhizome(2cm+) in the past, there's a chance that you may get some big ones.

Something like this would take closer to 15C to launch.