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- Sat Jul 10, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Latest Phyllostachys to shoot?
- Replies: 19
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Re: Latest Phyllostachys to shoot?
I am still waiting on shoots for paravifolia, dulcus, viridis, vivax inversa and regular vivax both the paravifolia and inversa are over 2 “ so I am excited about seeing what they do this year but I am wondering if I will get shoots at all. My Dulcis and Paravifolia just started shooting. Not much ...
- Sat May 29, 2021 6:20 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Whitening of Canes during spring
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3613
Re: Whitening of Canes during spring
Thanks Brad and Steve, I saw your post Steve about your vivax'es. What a heartbreak to watch such a great clump pass away! But those new shoots are very promising. We're getting some nice warm weather this week and one of the other divisions still in a container has put up a single shoot yesterday. ...
- Fri May 28, 2021 3:33 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Whitening of Canes during spring
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3613
Re: Whitening of Canes during spring
Yeah, I wasn't expecting the white ones to miraculously come back, but I hold out hope for some movement in the next couple weeks.
I'm In zone 9, the coldest we got this year was 28F, so it's unlikely to be cold damage?
Would the white canes be doing anything useful? Or should I cut them down?
Thanks!
I'm In zone 9, the coldest we got this year was 28F, so it's unlikely to be cold damage?
Would the white canes be doing anything useful? Or should I cut them down?
Thanks!
- Thu May 27, 2021 6:31 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Whitening of Canes during spring
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3613
Whitening of Canes during spring
Hey all. I took a good transplant of a neighbour's Vivax last winter (November). It's a 4 mid-size cane root ball about 12" in every direction. I planted it in it's new planter in January and anxiously awaited the spring. Spring is here! But as the plant awakes from dormancy, the canes are slow...
- Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:54 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Shoot thread
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10590
Re: Shoot thread
Getting a great amount and some good upsizing on my F. Robuta Wenchuan. This photo is a couple days old now, but the plant has 29 new shoots (planted last year from a 15G pot) as of yesterday. It's the most wonderful time of the year! All my Phyllos are still asleep, Zone 9, still frosts at night. C...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Wounded and broken - signs of life - what to do?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3827
Re: Wounded and broken - signs of life - what to do?
It could be Phyllostachys autesulcata 'Spectabilis'. If culms are glabrous, it could be Phyllostachys bambusoides 'Castillonis'. There are other Phyllos looking similar or identical, but at this stage, it's impossible to id it. Thicker culm texture could be the best bet to tell, but it is most like...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:09 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Wounded and broken - signs of life - what to do?
- Replies: 3
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Wounded and broken - signs of life - what to do?
Hello Bambooers, I find myself fortunate in getting a 25 gallon pot with some remnants of bamboo in it. The former owner left this pot for dead - neglected and unloved - after cutting the dying canes off two falls ago. It is so rootbound that the pot is bulging - some of the canes have rotted throug...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:35 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: New here
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4255
Re: New here
Welcome! I'm on the west coast, in my early 30s and bamboo has been my pandemic-passion.
For photo advice, can you take a screenshot of the photo - find the file and upload it? That would greatly reduce the size.
For photo advice, can you take a screenshot of the photo - find the file and upload it? That would greatly reduce the size.
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:32 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bamboo plants converging?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4621
Re: Bamboo plants converging?
There is adequate drainage in those tubs, right? As well as the main drain hole, I drilled 12 1/2" holes in the bottom (well below the root balls), as well as sloping the tub slightly down, so water should move to the main drain hole. We've had almost 5 inches of rain this month and the soil i...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:22 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bamboo plants converging?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4621
Re: Bamboo plants converging?
You can certainly put 2 per tub but you will end up with a mess of rhizomes and roots pretty quickly, then you have a large rootbound 'pot' as they eat the soil up and be hard to keep happy so you have to frequently clear out 1/3 or so to make new space. One will do the same but take longer to do s...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:32 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bamboo plants converging?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4621
Re: Bamboo plants converging?
As always - thanks for the wisdom.
Looks like I'll need more planters... aw shucks
Looks like I'll need more planters... aw shucks
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Bamboo plants converging?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4621
Bamboo plants converging?
Hi all, I'm moving onto phase 2 of my redneck planter plan - I've collected bathtubs, filled with soil and now am planting the divisions that I've acquired over the last 8 months (who knew this would be my pandemic-passion? :lol: ). If I plant two divisions from the same mother plant, will the rhyzo...
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:36 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Identification
- Topic: Golden Identification - Spectabilis? P. Aureosulcata?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4958
Re: Golden Identification - Spectabilis? P. Aureosulcata?
I will certainly report back when the new shoots emerge in 3-4 months. The lack of green in the sulcus leads me towards aureocaulis as well. There are a couple of plantings of this in my neighbourhood, which I love walking past, and it's probably my favourite of my meager collection.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 2:34 am
- Forum: Bamboo Identification
- Topic: Golden Identification - Spectabilis? P. Aureosulcata?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4958
Re: Golden Identification - Spectabilis? P. Aureosulcata?
Thanks! That's what I thought too - but the lack of green stripe on the culm threw me off. It is rough going in one direction (I forget which and it's pouring rain outside now lol). Really looking forward to the spring for the new shoots!
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:38 am
- Forum: Bamboo Identification
- Topic: Golden Identification - Spectabilis? P. Aureosulcata?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4958
Golden Identification - Spectabilis? P. Aureosulcata?
Happy New Year Bamboo-ers! I have finally replanted some divisions I got from a neighbour into the "forever homes" (Yes, those are bathtubs, but covered in landscape cloth so they're "classy" :) ). They had awesome rhizome growth and were a huge struggle to get them out of their ...