Help! New Bambusa emeiensis 'Viridiflavus(Yin Yang) Troubles
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:54 pm
Hello all! I have dreamed of surrounding my entire house with a wall of bamboo for 3 years now. At first I started looking at bamboo because of how fast it would grow but then after looking at the different kinds I fell in love with how beautiful it is. Every year I think about how full my privacy fence would be if I had just planted it the previous year, so this year I finally pulled the trigger. I Planted 55 three Gallon Plants around my yard. I found a man that had a nursery in west palm with tons of yin yang and monastery and other types of bautiful bamboo that were hard to find at other places. His issue was that he wasnt computer savy and said that he did all his business with landscapers which only bought seabreeze and graceful, so he was willing to part with the yin tang for a deal beacause he wanted to make room for the graceful and because he had them for so long without selling. So I drove down there with an enclosed trailer and picked them up, it was a 2 hour drive back. When I got home it was late and too dark to plant that night so I stood them all up in my yard and watered with the hose and planted the next 2 days. Some of the plants were as tall as 15 feet with lots of leaves and some had 3 canes, much bigger than most other peoples bamboo they were selling.
Now here is my problem, when I picked the bamboo up they all had beautiful dark green leaves but some of them 2 days later were already light green and curling looking very deadish. And many of the bamboo that looked this way hadn't been planted yet or taken out of the pot. I know that is a sign of underwatering but I( had them all set up on drip irrigation and they were all getting the same amount of water 1-2 gallons a day. I called the guy I bought them from and he said give more water so I didn over the next few days, leaves uncurled but never looked healthy again, some turned dark orange mixed with green. So now here I am a week later and I;m wondering if my Bamboo is dying. Here are some facts that might help anyone willing to help
- Most of the plants that look very bad now were the plants that were the biggest and had the most amount of leaves
-These same plants had roots bursting out of their pots at the nursery or growing through the holes in the pot and had actually began growing into the soil at the nursery, some of the plants had to be given a really good tug before they could be lifted from the ground due to those roots.
-The bad looking plants were divisions of a mature plant that had been potted for 6 months - a year with 1 inch to 1 1/2 inch canes.
-The plants that look more healthy have alot of leaves and are at least 8 feet with canes a half inch or smaller were grown from cuttings.
-The plants that look bad dont have any new green buds on the canes or stems, they have all turned brown.
-I planted all plants correctly and used 50lbs of black kow compost mixed in with 50% native soil(other plant grew well in this soil but I removed them for bamboo)
-When plants were transforted the were all stack on their sides laying down but upon inspection while planting none of them had damage to the root balls.
-The unhealthy looking plants seem like their canes are looking more brownish green compared to the bright green they were before.
-I romoved mulch and dug 12 inches down and the soild was nice and moist but not mushy.
My questions are:
-Are the plants dropping leaves dead? and if they are will it still send up new shoots or are the roots dead as well?
-I've read that the sign of overwatering is yellow leaves but I have only seen a dark bright orange, is this from overwatering or is this just what they look like when they are dying and going form green to brown.
Help Please!!! I've spent so much money on these plants and will be devastated if half of them die. Should I water more, water less, prune, ect..????
Thanks in Advance for anyone that might be able to shed some light!!!
Parent Plant
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... dw68zc.jpg
Unhealthy Looking Plant 2 days After buying
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... fsxkle.jpg
Unhealthy looking plant After a week
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... s4ebia.jpg
Unhealthy Plant's cane after a week
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... g8fvna.jpg
What leaves look like on most other plants
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... vs7hsa.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... w9kt77.jpg
My hopefully eventual fence
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... w9kt77.jpg
Now here is my problem, when I picked the bamboo up they all had beautiful dark green leaves but some of them 2 days later were already light green and curling looking very deadish. And many of the bamboo that looked this way hadn't been planted yet or taken out of the pot. I know that is a sign of underwatering but I( had them all set up on drip irrigation and they were all getting the same amount of water 1-2 gallons a day. I called the guy I bought them from and he said give more water so I didn over the next few days, leaves uncurled but never looked healthy again, some turned dark orange mixed with green. So now here I am a week later and I;m wondering if my Bamboo is dying. Here are some facts that might help anyone willing to help
- Most of the plants that look very bad now were the plants that were the biggest and had the most amount of leaves
-These same plants had roots bursting out of their pots at the nursery or growing through the holes in the pot and had actually began growing into the soil at the nursery, some of the plants had to be given a really good tug before they could be lifted from the ground due to those roots.
-The bad looking plants were divisions of a mature plant that had been potted for 6 months - a year with 1 inch to 1 1/2 inch canes.
-The plants that look more healthy have alot of leaves and are at least 8 feet with canes a half inch or smaller were grown from cuttings.
-The plants that look bad dont have any new green buds on the canes or stems, they have all turned brown.
-I planted all plants correctly and used 50lbs of black kow compost mixed in with 50% native soil(other plant grew well in this soil but I removed them for bamboo)
-When plants were transforted the were all stack on their sides laying down but upon inspection while planting none of them had damage to the root balls.
-The unhealthy looking plants seem like their canes are looking more brownish green compared to the bright green they were before.
-I romoved mulch and dug 12 inches down and the soild was nice and moist but not mushy.
My questions are:
-Are the plants dropping leaves dead? and if they are will it still send up new shoots or are the roots dead as well?
-I've read that the sign of overwatering is yellow leaves but I have only seen a dark bright orange, is this from overwatering or is this just what they look like when they are dying and going form green to brown.
Help Please!!! I've spent so much money on these plants and will be devastated if half of them die. Should I water more, water less, prune, ect..????
Thanks in Advance for anyone that might be able to shed some light!!!
Parent Plant
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... dw68zc.jpg
Unhealthy Looking Plant 2 days After buying
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... fsxkle.jpg
Unhealthy looking plant After a week
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... s4ebia.jpg
Unhealthy Plant's cane after a week
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... g8fvna.jpg
What leaves look like on most other plants
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... vs7hsa.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... w9kt77.jpg
My hopefully eventual fence
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h80/c ... w9kt77.jpg