Boo shoots for 2013

[Tarzanus]

I noticed Borinda fungosa shoot. I'm not sure if it's new or old - active or dormant. It does look like it's going to be larger than last year's shoots (~1 cm diameter) though.
Plant looks quite bad. It did not freeze because I've brought it inside, it started to branch out and after that all of a sudden, leafs and branches started going dry. It lost 3/4 of leaves and it looks just like last year when it got frozen. It's possible that it got maltreated when I wasn't around and when that happened. Hopefully this shoot starts growing and bamboo restarts vigorously into 2013. BTW, it got huge and I can hardly move it around. It's more than 2 m tall and culms got to around 1cm thick. I trimmed it heavily now.

[JWH]

3-9-13 Bashania Fargesii getting started.

[rickw]

Moso (in the ground) is starting to put up shoots in south Alabama. I noticed 2 shoots this morning, the tallest is about 20". They should really get going this week with weather hitting 70 degrees.

[stevelau1911]

Rick,

It looks like your moso has matured enough to the point where it has on and off years given that you are only getting a few shoots that don't appear any bigger than your largest existing culms.

If nothing else comes up this year, I bet those shoot buds under there will keep on maturing, and you might see 2 years worth of gains by the spring of next year. My moso bicolor started out as a division so it already seems to be on the on/off cycle where this coming spring should be the explosive year.

[rickw]

Last year, it put up a few shoots, then the major flush came a couple of weeks later. I guess I'll find out soon. We got a lot of rain last month, so I'm hoping everything starts poping soon. It's due for some upsizing, I've been disappointed with the size so far.

[rickw]

What a difference a few days make. Moso shoots are popping up everywhere, and I'm finally getting some upsizing, these new shoots will be much larger than my shoots from last year.

[stevelau1911]

That reminds me of this video. I guess you get to hear the sound effects in person

[JWH]

3-13-13 Pleioblastus viridistriatus

I was clipping back last years growth today, and noticed it's already shooting.

[kreos123]

Ph. vivax 'Aureocaulis' a little bit to early. We had 18°C few weeks before the cold front.

[needmore]

kreos - how far from the sea coast are you located?

[kreos123]

kreos - how far from the sea coast are you located?

400 km from the sea, zone 7a.

[JWH]

Pleioblastus Hindsii x Pleioblastus Gauntletii hybrid is shooting.

Semiarundinaria fastuosa 'viridis' & Phyllostachys Viridis 'robert young' last years late season shoots are resuming growth.

[kbadams]

Some of mine will try to get more pics this weekend

[stevelau1911]

http://www.bambooweb.info/bb/viewtopic. ... 816#p53816

As shown by my post exactly 1 year ago, shoots outside on multiple bamboos were already coming out, and they somehow managed to survive all the freezes afterwards as my frost cloths seemed to be effective when it only dropped a few degrees below freezing.

One thing about shoots is that they do seem to lose all of their hardiness once they are over 1ft tall, and no longer have their coat of protective sheathes on them, especially when there is green culm showing.



Kbadams, seeing how far along your shoots are, I think you are probably hoping that you don't get any frosts in the next few days as the northeast won't be the only place with way below average temperatures.

[kbadams]

Yes Steve i hope we don't get any frost we are going to have a few cool nights and in the upper 60's for daytime highs but do not think we will have frost our lows are gonna be in the upper 30's