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- Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:08 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Late shoots
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2093
Re: Late shoots
Hi Fred, it's interesting to learn you have runners shooting so far out of season. I just got a little taste of something similar from a clumper: Back in September during some exchange here about "nana" varieties, I brought home a little propagule (presumably a Quail) and put it in the gro...
- Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:53 pm
- Forum: Bugs, beasts and diseases
- Topic: Nasty rust, or just innocuous scale?
- Replies: 3
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Re: Nasty rust, or just innocuous scale?
Hello Fred, and thanks for the reply (a reply!!). Well certainly there were mites on the plant -- individual mites and their cloudy, silken nests are both indicated on the photo above. My concern is with the other thing in the photo, labeled "mystery pest" -- the waxy, pale, elongated thin...
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 1:40 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bambusa nana
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6324
Re: Bambusa nana
Now that's hairy — by your earlier mention I suspected you referred to a waxiness, but no, that's a fleece as white as snow, daddy-o. I think you're on the right track: Your photos so far do compare quite favorably with those offered by Khun Dieter of the BS Quail. A true mystery species and a gorge...
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 8:37 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bambusa nana
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6324
Re: Bambusa nana
Okay, here's something that might be helpful: For that something physical to examine, I went out to the nursery nearby, which is well stocked and offers 3 flavors of "nana." • One is a young clump just a few years old that the nursery IDs as x Thyrsocalamus liang striata "Candy,"...
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:16 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bambusa nana
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6324
Re: Bambusa nana
Yeah, it's a lot to digest and I'm still working on it too. But pause on the Gigantochloa association — by these notes, that's the suspected genus only if it's got a Quail provenance. If on the other hand it's the authentic liang , Dieter is proposing a new, crossover genus: Thyrsostachys + Dendroca...
- Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:32 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bambusa nana
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6324
Re: Bambusa nana
Cheers ... There is some irony here: Khun Dieter, a member here who is doing this work, suspects that the initial type to be given the "nana" moniker — the Quail Gardens specimen — is just a ringer for these common Thai "liang" bamboos and possibly an altogether separate species....
- Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bambusa nana
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6324
Re: Bambusa nana
You've got a great fast-grower there! Now that it has some more mature growth, I'm curious to know if you've delved into what strain of Nana it might be. The page on the ongoing study in Chiang Mai of local permutations of this hybrid has been updated as late as this past summer. Taxonomy and photos...
- Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:06 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: bamboo in movies
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15519
Re: bamboo in movies
Apologies for reviving such an old thread buuuut... Bamboo makes a striking cinematic appearance quite removed from these martial-arts epics, in the classic 1953 French thriller The Wages of Fear ( La salaire de la peur ). The film tells the story of European vagabonds stuck in a tropical backwater ...
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 1:30 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Removal of Bambusa vulgaris
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1629
Re: Removal of Bambusa vulgaris
Greetings -- I gather that there isn't much commercial cultivation or processing of bamboo in your part of S. America, and if so, I'm not sure my suggestion will suit your situation. Nevertheless, consider seeking out someone who will take it off your hands/lands for free if it has any value locally...
- Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:37 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Dendrocalamus minor supergrowth
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2154
Re: Dendrocalamus minor supergrowth
I've given it just a cupful of 6-1-8 palm granules three times a year so far, and thought that might actually be underdoing it a little. But also, I didn't plant it on open ground, but in a tight space -- a clump of Madagascar butterfly palms to one side, and Dracaena on the other, both 25 feet tall...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:23 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Dendrocalamus minor supergrowth
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2154
Re: Dendrocalamus minor supergrowth
Unlike the rest of the CONUS we've had seasonable weather here this summer: At least 3"-4" of rain fell on the clump weekly through June and July (making up for a rather dry spring) and highs have been pushing 90F. As it happens, when I was rolling on the ground to take my arty photo yeste...
- Wed Aug 11, 2021 10:04 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Dendrocalamus minor supergrowth
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2154
Dendrocalamus minor supergrowth
Two summers ago I put a standard D. minor starter in the ground. Beginning soon after, and over the next year, it put up seven thin, bushy immature culms, at first leaners and then uprights. But this past June it kicked into gear and sprouted a half dozen mature-form culms, between 1.75" and 2&...
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 12:03 pm
- Forum: Bugs, beasts and diseases
- Topic: Nasty rust, or just innocuous scale?
- Replies: 3
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Re: Nasty rust, or just innocuous scale?
To supplement my previous ramble, here's an unscaled closeup view of the underside image, with identifiers. The mites and their nests, as I said, have been eradicated, but the elongated squatters persist, along with the spotty and streaky red bits on affected leaves. The leaf here is about an inch w...
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 1:11 am
- Forum: Bugs, beasts and diseases
- Topic: Nasty rust, or just innocuous scale?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2230
Nasty rust, or just innocuous scale?
Greetings -- I'll try to keep this long tale brief. Two years back, as a novice, I brought home a Bambusa propagule unaware of its serious pest infestations. The first bugs I noticed were the bamboo mites, due to their nests. Also on the leaf undersides: pale, immobile scaly things not much bigger t...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:43 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Seeds available
- Replies: 52
- Views: 20111
Re: Seeds available
I'd be up for it, as I like to try my brown thumb on exotic seeds (this summer is my third try at sprouting teak nuts), but I'm definitely in the wrong neighborhood for these varieties. Cheers!