idont know what species the tall ones are.... but they are two years old ....
and bambusa vulgaris is 18months ...

marcat wrote:just a guess (it is to cold for them to get full size here) if in ideal conditions 3 to five years to it's full size around 50 to sixty foot.
MarCat

cool.

my bedroom window opens to this....

assuming it is dendrocalamus strictus how long will it take to mature (over 20 ft )?

this must be the rarest bamboo ever. !!! It is probably not rare but very very few people here in the US can grow tropical forms of bamboo so we don't have any familiarity with yours thus the no replies. Post a photo of a temperate running form and you'll get plenty of replies! well can you make an...

this must be the rarest bamboo ever. !!!

NEW SHOOT !!!

thanks guys /// ifigured it was a longshot... i guess ill wait.
btw lahore is in pakistan not india
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore

34 views?
maybe ill wait till the new shoot grows in.

NEW SHOOT http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/8603/8ctk.jpg http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5434/en0x.jpg http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7817/euin.jpg ================================== DSC03522.JPG DSC03523.JPG DSC03524.JPG ibought 10 plants january this year. only three survived...they are getti...

johnw wrote:Friend is arriving in Kyoto tonight and she has promised bamboo pix. Stay tuned.

??? what happend with your friend .... ihope everything is ok !!!

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its Bambusa vulgaris/// 8months old.

so ican see roots/// what do ineed to do other than cut the branches off the base and plant em.?
an6y precautions ?

Friend is arriving in Kyoto tonight and she has promised bamboo pix. Stay tuned. .great !!! Yes, I assumed you didn't take them or you would probably have known what they were... :) Here is an interesting blog post: http://botanyboy.org/moso-japans-giant-bamboo-phyllostachys-edulis/ P. Edulis is no...

aa thanks but you knw that itook these from google images.. right !???

do these have broad leaves like bambusa ventricosa?

these are from kyoto ...

Could be either A or B. I would wait on rmoving the original culm it could still produce another larger culm and if the larger (newest culm) is it's of shoot it is probably still feeding it nutrients. Did you scarify the branch nodes where the bottles cover? Wait several weeks and keep moist Vulgar...