Are we talking about the ABS magazine?

And are you sure the postal service still delivers to Florida? I think we suspended service to rogue states.... Happy Solsitice, Roy!

Yeah, I think I'm special ed - need some remedial coursework!

boy am I confused.... never saw so many quotes inside quotes.... thought I was in the barber shop looking in the mirror...

I was wondering about that - the leaves change and get solid green? But the culms that are striped stay striped, right?

Yes, it does seem that more vigorous new growth is related to the striping, so any combo of factors that produce one could be responsible for the other... or they could be related in some other way.... genetically, cellular level, something.

Don't know if any of you visit the Yahoo bamboo plantations forum, or know of California 'bambusero' and iconoclast Rob't Roark, but he's filed a very interesting report on a recent INBAR trip to China on the BP forum. Anyone interested can find the forum via Yahoo. They're doing things with bamboo ...

True to my tropical experience also - they don't really branch til the next season... agree also that runners are nearly done as soon as branching begins. Once there are leaves, I don't think the get any taller. But, as said, hard to observe closely that high up.

Sometimes you get lucky when you ask - I was gonna guerilla grab some 'boo from an alley, but asked the guy instead, he had already dug up a huge mound of it, helped me get in wheelbarrow, took it home and now I have Alphonse Karr sending up 20-30 "survival shoots"!

Oh boy! More experiments! But as B4me suggested, shooting them does work.... I guess you're rural enough to use a rifle, but if you need a good pellet gun, I recommend Gamo - highly accurate and reasonable muzzle velocity - used for training by Olympic rifle teams. Course doesn't help much that they...

A new transplant has all the room it could want to grow and prosper. Its growth is not inhibited in any direction by the former clump it was "tied" to. Sunlight can come at it from many directions now. Its main goal is to grow as large as the environmental conditions permit at its new loc...

Oh, have you thought about ferrets? They probably love gopher.

Hope the gopher problem is better now, Gene. We have the same problem with squirrels here. They love the shoots and the tops of the culms up until they leaf out. Damn things decimated my moso one year, Henon another year. I have a small area to worry about, so chicken wire fences and cones around th...

This is truly fascinating information from all of you! Thanks for sharing it. What I am left wondering is, why do both B. multiplexes that I've transplanted - Silverstripe and Al.Karr - seem to produce so much vigorous variegated growth, leaf and culm, in the newly transplanted ones? And then at lea...

Maybe it's just moving toward the beautiful lady standing there... Some beautiful bamboo, too! Awesome shot!

Just dug some Silverstripe (B. multiplex) and it has active buds, new leaves already, tho no shoots above ground yet. This is early for SE Ga as it usually doesn't poke it's head up til July. Has been really hot really early, so that's probably why.