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About a year
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:45 pm
by needmore
Most of these have been in ground right around a year, a couple a tad longer, a couple a tad less. All were mostly 1 gal size, couple were 3's.
S brachycladum
G maxima
G atter?
G atroviolacea bought as P nigra
Nastus elatus with G maxima behind
G atroviolacea bought as B lako
B nana - not a good name for this one
Bad photo of a beautiful G manggong
Re: About a year
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:39 pm
by Alan_L
And first year is the slowest!
Will be more than amazing before you know it! Do you have a favorite Brad?
Re: About a year
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 5:29 pm
by needmore
It's hard to favor anything over the Sacred Bali, it just keeps shooting and upsizing in a tight clump and those yellow culms & dark green hanging leaves are stunning in person. The 'not really B nana' is right there with it though.
Re: About a year
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:11 pm
by needmore
It kind of sucks here, I'm a bamboo collector and am having trouble finding new species I want. I have around 38 I think and I know a supplier with 80 but most are not that interesting so until I can uncover the bamboo person with the rare mix, I'm converting to a palm guy, currently with 75 species of palm...nearly 2x my bamboo!
Re: About a year
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 7:47 pm
by Alan_L
You might as well do a full confession -- you're a Colocasia/Alocasia guy too. 50 types of those?
Re: About a year
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:04 am
by needmore
Heaven's no, only 18 or so but man there are lots of other aroids I can grow. And, um, thus far among hundreds of other things, I've planted 90+ cycads of a few different forms.
Re: About a year
Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 4:59 pm
by needmore
One of my unknown types is pushing 3' shoots at about 18 months, I think it might be D brandseii instead of G atter, first photo is shortly after buying it.
Re: About a year
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 8:12 pm
by stevelau1911
Got one of my moso seedlings to have the golden yellow groove which is the exact inverse of the bicolor but it also happened to have variagated leaves too. Oddly unlike the previous gold stripe variations I've grown a decade ago, this one appears to be more vigorous than the plain green ones.
This is however nowhere near as exciting as tropical clumpers. This is a half of my original dencrocalamus asper hitam black bamboo which in after a year of moving away and being dug into a sunny spot on a mountain with nothing around it managed to put out an unreal upsize.
Re: About a year
Posted: Wed May 11, 2022 4:04 pm
by needmore
My Hitam looks about like yours except for the big shoot so far.