Looks great, nice work. Are you in CA? You may know of Roy Rogers in FL from this forum, but he always gets very large bamboos in FL and he swore watering was the key for him on getting his tropicals big. I put in a drip irrigation system a few years ago and it does help alot. I did it because its ...

I mix in ALOT of the pellet fertilizer with fresh soil and pack it on top for a couple inches. Then Chicken poop on top of that, and i hose it down with liquid fertilizer. I did this in 3 month intervals except during winter. The fertilizer is just high nitrogen miracle grow. And it didnt work on ev...

Ive been having mediocre results with alot of my bamboo for the past couple years. Last year i got a little naughty with the fertilizer and had great results. This year i did the same so im hoping for equally awesome results These first two pics are from some Oldhamii thats just starting its second ...

Thanks guys! its a little late to be messing with the soil though... I guess i could dig up the plant and just plant a new one with proper soil but this clumper is almost 4 years old and i dont want to have to start over I cant pile any more soil on top of it, i figured that the same thing kinda hap...

Orange county, California

So i have some Vivax behind a retaining wall, every few months or so the soil becomes really hard and water starts flowing off it insted of down into it. My usual response is to pile more soil on top, but now theres a huge mound and not much room for more. Hows about Aerating it? has anyone ever don...

This particular plant is actually in a row of divisions i took from a mature specimen last summer. This is the only one flowering out of 4 plants, which leads me to believe it is stress induced, if there is such a thing. Should i bother saving the seeds?

What is going on here, ive never seen it do this before. It has little buds growing out of it. I double checked and its not some other plant growing behind it, its the oldhamii. Is it flowering? i thought they only did this every 100 years or so http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f64/markdoddridge/ph...

ya those are just whipshoots, they lack the wavy culm sheath tip things that real nigra shoots have

D. Asper Betung Hitam - 3 HUGE new shoots this week B. Vulgaris Vittata - 1 new shoot B. Lako - 1 new shoot but this one never really stops shooting we had some heavy rain here in orange county, ca, followed by a heat wave (low 80's for the last couple days in the middle of january!) so i think that...

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sorry wrong picutre

heres some pictures to illustrate what i mean

Yes, there are alot of really good pictures of bamboo on the site, and on alot of other sites, im mostly interested in motivating people to take updated pictures of their groves, specifically mature bamboo groves, and more specifically, d. asper betung hitam. I know there are people out there with h...

Hi! I thought i would get a mature bamboo thread going. Please only post pictures of Mature bamboo that are almost if not at their mature size (please include their name). Im especially interested in D. Asper Betung Hitam, the photos available online leave much to be desired :( So everyone: What do ...