Some of my runners produce whip-shoots in the Autumn. I tease them through drain holes and up into pots - after they mature into quasi-culms with leaves of their own (usually by Spring I sever them from their source rhizome in the ground). This usually produces a nice/healthy new division.

Thank you MarCat for the confirmation. I'll try to get some photos today and post them here, particularly good for the record, especially if the frost gets it.

Someone gave me a few seeds, supposedly produced by Bambusa bambos and one of them grew into this plant - I will take a few pics and post them tomorrow. A few years earlier I obtained a small division of Bambusa bambos ; it was in a four inch pot when I received it, then I grew it until it was gallo...

I have a small plant, growing in a 15 gallon pot. It is quickly growing larger. It does not yet have any thorns and the bases of the leaves which wrap around the culms and culm branches (the leaf sheathes) are a rich and vibrant red color. Supposedly this plant was grown from a seed of Bambusa bambo...

That groove (which is immediately above the branch buds, so alternates from side to side) you describe is called a "sulcus" and is a characteristic of the genus Phyllostachys, as is having two branches at each node, one larger than the other.

Precisely - potted bamboo can, over time, become too pot-bound which can hinder their continued growth. If the potted bamboo has insufficient root/rhizome growth that the contained mass of media in the pot is not woven together by roots and rhizomes when it is removed from the pot for planting, some...

In your case, where you're planting in the Spring, I'd opt for the smaller size. It's easier to pot a plant when the root ball remains intact from the pot to the planting hole. A larger pot might not have a cohesive root ball formed until much later than a smaller pot. I just received three new runn...

mr.mike, When you mentioned covering the above ground new shoots with soil and mulch I had a different mental image than that which you describe and show in your photos. First, I am guessing that species which exhibit this, "reverse-tillering", (tillers are lateral branches that form from ...

Because they are the same species, and most likely even divisions of the very same clone, when they are planted in close proximity they will grow so they appear to be one plant, but those multiple divisions should colonize a much larger area, more quickly, than even a single larger division of the s...

I believe that when someone says, "Tropical Blue" they really mean, Bambusa chungii , which looks like: http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo/chungii._1190986871.jpg . It seems that you have basically answered your own questions. That five smaller plants will provide more surety of estab...

Eventually Used Up? The organic method is no till, add compost to top. The worms and other organisms work it down into the soil. I am really looking for a pro or con argument. C'mon everybody, there's got to be a substantive argument without the red herrings, maybe not. You can't really "till&...

From what has been said, so far, I can see that the most likely scenario is that, one gallon size runners are most likely a way for growers to salvage material that otherwise might go to waste, and as a way for customers on a limited budget, such as myself, a way to afford increasing the variety of ...

Does anyone have experience producing one gallon viable divisions of various Phyllostachys species? I have been able to locate many commercial Bamboo nurseries that produce this size division - nearly all my various groves have been started with one gallon size divisions. I have been digging and pot...

One good approach to trenches is to simply fill them in with something soft, like bark or sand. This has several advantages: there is no tripping/falling hazard, they don't fill up with debris, and it's very easy to probe for new runners. I must admit to multiple motives for digging my trenches bet...

What is the cost for this in your area? My most recent purchase of two bales cost about $30 each, though this is a significant increase since my prior purchase about a year ago. I get my bark from Home Depot, where it is sold for landscaping groundcover/mulch. It cost about $4 per 2 c.f. bag, but o...