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Flora General Discussions This will cover anything and everything you all wish to discuss about plants. |
04-22-2014, 09:23 PM
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Bamboo shoots coming up!
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04-22-2014, 10:35 PM
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That is amazing!! Where are you located and what is the care like for these beautiful plants!
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04-23-2014, 01:03 AM
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I'm in north Florida.
Bamboo has proven to be extremely easy to grow in this area, but honestly the Phyllostachys varieties tend to do well even further north. Not sure how well they would do further south with warmer temps, but I would suspect they would do OK. My favorite is Phyllostachys vivax. Easy to establish, and it gets HUGE. I have some shoots that are about 6 inches in diameter and the culms are around 50 ft. tall.
They do need a fairly regular watering cycle, as they are a pretty thirsty plant.
You propagate them by digging out part of the rhizome with a single culm (stalk) which you normally take in February when it is dormant. Keep the root system WET during the transfer, put it in the ground, and give it plenty of water for the first several months to get it established. After a few years, just stay out of the way...
I have another thread here with a video I took last year walking through my several bamboo groves located here -> http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...d.php?t=388155
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04-25-2014, 03:40 PM
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Do you sale any starts?
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04-25-2014, 05:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by c.lepidus
Do you sale any starts?
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Sorry, but no.
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04-25-2014, 06:02 PM
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As a side note - if you find yourself wanting to thin it out a little, bamboo is a popular "prey item" for crazy sword people...though I suspect shipping would be a hassle.
(crazy sword people, crazy reptile people...nobody understands us. As far as I know, it's mainly the people into Japanese style swords that cut bamboo - can't say that it's popular with the Euro/medieval crowd)
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04-25-2014, 06:12 PM
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Yeah, shipping would be a hassle with anything over 4 ft or so in length, I believe. Shipping live plants would be even more so. I would have to dig up part of the rhizome during the dormant season IF I could find a culm small enough on that rhizome to be shipped. This would be quite a challenge with the larger stuff. Not to mention that I am not all that keen on the amount of physical labor that would be required for selling the stuff.
Maybe one day I'll sell small sections for animal hideboxes and such, but not really any strong desire to get into another business venture quite yet.
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04-25-2014, 07:18 PM
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I would love to try to get some started! It's beautiful!!
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04-25-2014, 08:03 PM
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You should be able to find online sources for the various types of bamboo. I got most of mine that way, except for some that I personally picked up from a seller in Savannah, GA, and then some from Kanapaha Gardens in Gainesville, FL.
I don't remember exactly where I got the Phyllostachys vivax from, but I believe it was a grower in Oregon or Washington state.
Just bear in mind that you do need some reasonable average rainfall amounts in order for bamboo to take hold and thrive. And it WILL take up a large plot of land if it REALLY gets established. BTW, the green form of P. vivax I took photos of above was originally put into the ground a good 15 years or more ago. The yellow form maybe 10 years ago. So you do have to be patient for them to get some impressive size to the culms coming up.
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