vicarious, I'm glad to hear that you're having good luck with your bamboo. I too have now gotten some P. Nigra. It's been in the ground for about...
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Vicarious1 Well it's been a year now. How's the new P. Nigra doing? I am up to 28 species of bamboo and still climbing. From your last post the...
Do not prune them. If they still have a few green leaves the new buds will produce new leaves and they will look beautiful again. If the canes...
It will do alot better if you can get a couple of canes with the rhizome, otherwise it will have very small canes for the first 3-4 years. If you...
I forgot to mention about the growth buds on the rhizomes. Some of the growth buds turn into canes and some of them turn into more rhizomes and...
By small divisions I mean very small plants in small pots. A large division is a large pot with tall canes and lots of large rhizomes(roots). The...
How old is the plants? They may just be root bound. Try digging them out and dividing them. Then only put half of the plants back in there. Canes...
3rd cane is a rhizome that will most likely turn into a short cane with many branches and leaves which is usually referred to as a whipshoot....
I think you misunderstood me. What I meant was all of the canes come from the same plant, so every time you cut off the leaves or branches with...
Do not! I repeat Do Not cut any of the foliage off of any of the canes. They all are part of the same plant. They are producing more leaves to...
That's great to hear, sounds like you're well on your way to a real nice grove. Have you tried any others yet? If they shot new shoots your...
I think some people misunderstood what I said or maybe it was the way I said it but what I actually meant was if you take a division of bamboo...
Bambooman here I grow lots of bamboo in pots outside. My suggestion would be to wrap the pot with a few layers of bubble wrap and mulch it...
Bambooman here, You may just be experiencing a natural leaf drop sometimes my boos look sick when in reality they are just replacing the leaves....
