Anyone tried this, putting a length of cut rhizome in a pot vertically. I was just looking into these deep cones and pots for use with planting trees and grasses, which through seedling growth develop very deep roots and so can use extra room. Like this: raysingle_sm.jpg The same company sells some ...

Mackel- I also have been approaching bamboo horticulture from a my ecological-based, or maybe some call it green, or organic, but I call it just creating the environment which the plant is going to grow best in. And not because my politics have me so far out into left field that it seems extreme eve...

Gonna have to call you out on a point there, Mackel. Legumes do add nitrogen, and in pretty significant amounts, in the range of 10-300 pounds of nitrogen per acre when grown in an agricultural environment. The acting microbe is actually a bacteria in this particular process, a member of the Rhizobi...

Karl Bareis is the author of Handbook for Growing Bamboo? Do you know when the handbook was published, and what Karl Bareis' background is?

I've brought this up in posts before, without much response. This forum seems like the proper place to bring it up again. Since the addition of nitrogen to bamboo is so important, it seems natural to investigate the addition of nitrogen-fixing plants to a grove to add nitrogen to the soil. So far I ...

Thanks again! Needmore, is it the color of the shoot that leads you to believe that it will abort? I have been pretty fortunate so far, in that the only shoots that have aborted on me were over a month ago, and I believe that they were all due to the last cold snap we had, a night that dipped around...

I think that we should define the question a bit, specifically, what are the reasons that a person would put down mulch around bamboo, and for each specific reason, what have people found to be the most effective? I assume that the number one reason that members here would be using mulch would be to...

At one point I had assumed that this was aurea, but now that the new culm coloration has shown up with this year's shoots, along with what I assume is a more 'mature' shoot feature, I have to wonder if I was even close. The complete lack of congested nodes always made me curious, but maybe these pic...

OK, made a photo-taking visit to the mystery grove a few days ago and documented what was developing. http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo/0/dscn1570.jpg This is a shoot that is just over six foot, showing the dark green color and the powdery finish. http://www.bambooweb.info/images/bamboo/0/dscn...

My most mature bamboo, still unidentified, is currently in a large plastic drum, bottom removed, and buried with about three inches of the drum above ground. Last year I had mounded soil over the lip, allowing rhizome easy path to jump and take off. As rhizome expansion was starting, I pulled back t...

I have learned about a couple of plants that are helpful in keeping underground pests away, and since the subject of these little buggers comes up here once in awhile, thought I would share what I have learned. First is called Gopher Purge. Kind of weird looking, but when planted in an area, it has ...

One of the articles in the ABS journals that I downloaded was a study of the different phases of running bamboo maturity, based on observations made at the Prafrance groves. The study hypothesized roughly five major phases of development, and I seem to remember the observation that as groves mature,...

I just received a couple of Parvifolia from Bamboo Garden in early May, and am about a week from being ready to put it into the ground out at the hillside. Is Parv a close relative of Kwangsiensis? What is the relation, a mutant clone or a sibling from the same seed batch? I know that flowering, esp...

I'm currently trying the weed-whack and then bury in wood-chip mulch, some areas topped with soil. A method a might try, and that may be especially suited for your area, is to knock down big, bushy, or woody ones, cover all the weed-ridden areas with cardboard, and top with mulch or soil or both. Th...

You have a nice containment method going there. I especially enjoy the 'free' part, and I assume that is your motivation here, instead of using the commercially available rhizome barriers, which can get really pricey. That said, going to have to agree with Alan_L, the rhizomes are going to be out of...