... do they size up? In 8b/9 San Antonio? 85F+ hi and 70F low from mid-March to 1 October? I planted B. tuldoides in July 04, got 10 x 10 ft culms by December. In 05, 06, 15 x 15-20 ft culms In 07, wow, some much bigger monsters still coming up. Way faster than my Vivax. So, how fast are these 3 Bam...

In Jamaica, the guys tell me their bamboo, which was all B. vulgaris from what I could see and from they were using as construction struts, needs tons of water, and stand back. I did see a lot more B. vulgaris growing on the banks of mountain streams, HUGE clumps of 100s of culms, than I did anywher...

Most monitors and display cards have been AT LEAST 1024 x 768 for several years already. Even most portables have 14" screens for the last couple years, while most recen desktop displays are 17" or 19". 640 x 480 (aka Super VGA) as a max image size seems so mid 1990s, ie, just fine .....

Not speaking from experience, but it's kinda hard to beat this one for decorative value, visual interest, exoticism: http://bambooweb.info/ShowPictures2.php?BooID=82&Desc=&Loc=&Match=AND&Cat=*&s=0 you'll need to trim the branches below head height, and top the culms when they get...

re-sizing (by re-sampling) down always softens an image, makes it look soft focus vs. original. I always tell PSP to sharpen the downsized iimage slightly, it makes a difference. Another factor that messes up .jpg images is too high compression: the more compressed, the greater loss of quality and i...

Roy,

I also got the error/debug page when posting to "sick Aurea" thread. I kept re-trying, no change. but then I saw that my msg showed up in the thread one time ok.

I have Ph. nigra, henon, and Semi. fastuosa in 19-gal containers, and have a hard time keeping them looking healthy and vigorous. I doubt I've burned them with too much fert, but they drain so well and I water them so much in summer that any excess fert should have been rinsed out by now. They are a...

Would y'all say the B. mali. is more upright than textilis or tuldoides?

Does it size up quickly? My tuldoides at 2 years is now putting up 1.25" culms and 30 feet.

"what I saw when I took the image." Silly old man! You trust your visual memory? :) I don't even try to remember. I try to please myself within bounds of nearly realistic color. I like spicy ethnic foods with pronounced taste. I like my images pronounced with deeply saturated color, highly...

I use PSP9 My usual tactics are using only PSP photo correction tools rather than the manual tools. 1. darken 10% by 1 - 3 times 2. PSP's "clarify", which isn't quit the same as simply increasing contrast. 3. Increase saturation. This of course makes screwed up color balance more obvious. ...

'here was a murder years ago of some big government leader" Cold war assassination: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2003/01/2890 Here's some pics of large purple Castor plants San Antonio Botangical Garden: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/bamboozool2/999_temp/8207baa8.jpg don't ...

It made a lot of sense with film to spend a lot of time on f/stop and exposure, but such tight control of params at point of exposure is not so critical with digital images where sophisticated post-processing is so easy. I never accept that an image as delivered from the digital camera is the best i...

how old are these Moso seeds?

I'm in NE San Antonio, and have a Ph. nigra "Daikokuchiku"/Folsom black in a 19 gal container for the past 20 months. Still short and bushy, it needs to go into the ground.

I know of two large stands of Ph aurea in San Antonio that get not watering and are very browned by our severe drought. I expect there will be (old, weak) culm death, but overall the stands will probably make it. However, I wonder if they would make through 3 or 4 years of this drought. Our drought ...

My Ph vivax had its usual spring shooting, then started another round of shooting a couple weeks ago.