Need advice on giant bamboo removal
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I need advice on what kind of bamboo to grow.
Comments (2)I just joined the Bamboo forum and have a few questions. I live in Fl on the ridge (central peninsula) - it's sugar sand (fine powdery sand) and very dry! I do have a sink hole and peat bogg on the back of my acre. After three hurricanes past over in '04, I had 5 ft of water there for almost 18 months. Now it is back to bone dry. (Very challenging terrain!) I want clumpers and I have bought B. lako seeds. Four have germinated and are looking healthy. I also have some Iron bamboo coming in the mail and seeds for weavers (B. textilis) and Buddah belly (B. ventricosa). I also want some Mexican Weeping bamboo, if anyone has some for sale or seeds I can buy, let me know. Will these 4 bamboos do well here, zone 9A? I will water well until they establish, but how long will it take and will they ever be OK on their own? Thanks, looking foward to meeting and getting to know other bamboo lovers. Zachi...See MoreOldhamii...giant timber Bamboo
Comments (6)Here in Texas in 8b, my Oldhamii does just fine. I've had it in the ground for over a decade and once established, it only froze back one year but I think it not only had to do with the extreme cold that Winter, but the lack of water which was due to drought weather here. It used to have no northerly Winter protection from north winds but it only got occasional leaf burn at the tips of some leaves and at the top of the clumps. It reached over 40 feet tall here with culms over 4 inches in diameter. What makes Oldhamii great is it's erectness. It grows very upright. If you plant it in a protected area, it will probably do excellent. The first couple of years, you may want to protect it on those colder nights, but once it sizes up, it will usually just get some leaf burn. Keep it watered well on those cold nights also. It has gotten down into the single digits here twice since I planted mine, but they survived although they froze back somewhat. I usually don't see any leaf-freeze burn until the upper teens and/or if there is a constant strong wind with the cold weather. A beautiful plant. You will enjoy it. Kt...See MoreNeed advice for Green Giant planting on Long Island.
Comments (48)bazinga... congrats ... you mention the end ones are smaller.. and suggest less sun ... true ... but have you considered what creates the shade ... and whether those trees are also stealing available water ????? when you planted.. i am sure you cut a lot of tree roots near that corner .. do you recall such ??? ....and then you watered the transplants .... and the cut roots of the other trees.. probably responded by putting out new feeder roots ... right into your transplants ... i dont think there is anything you can do about it .... except offer the small one more water???? ... and eventually they will grow ... no one ever said.. they would all end up exactly the same .. i am just offering another variable than just reduced sun.. as to why they are growing the way they are ... ken...See MorePotting advice needed for giant aroid cutting
Comments (9)The stem has leaf scars along it's length, which means there are dormant buds along its entire length. The top of the cutting is simply dying back to a viable node, which almost always occurs when you make a pruning cut through an internode. If you look at the stub of this ^^^ ficus cutting, you can see it too is dying back to a viable node. You can even see where a collar is starting to form around the base of the stub. Any future pruning cut to remove the stub should be as close to that collar as possible w/o removing it. That collar will eventually roll over the small scar left where the stub is removed. A very large scar which is mostly healed ^^^ I would cut the stem in half with a very sharp tool and dip the ends in fungicide, flowers of sulfur (drugstore), or cinnamon before potting the pieces/ propagules. Pot the propagule with the green stem so the bottom of the stem is at the soil line. Later, you will be able to remove the unsightly stub sticking out of the grow medium, or it might produce some additional bud breaks for you. The other propagule, the one w/o a stem should be potted at an angle so several nodes stick up above the top of the medium and the medium kept damp. Why pot it at an angle: Perched water often occupies the lower reaches of the pot. Planting the propagules deep enough that the roots are submerged in the water that makes up the perched water table can deprive the roots of oxygen necessary for normal root growth. That's why a light/ airy medium is best, and 'damp'/ 'moist' are the operational words. Planting the propagules at an angle helps to ensure they will not be immersed in water. Cutting the propagule in half does the same thing. Al...See Moremczinn
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