Be sure to provide enough space for it to reach its mature size. They can get 35 feet high and close to 3" culm diameter on a good site.

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With moso during a drought, especially when the relative humidity drops as well, the leaves will curl for extended periods of time during sunny days. When the leaves are curled, photosynthesis is mostly shut down, so the bamboo isn't storing energy to be used for making next year's shoots. Also the ...

So far this spring: Fargesia robusta (8 foot high shoots), F. dracocephala rufa (6 feet), Qiongzhuea tumidissinoda (15feet), Sasa kurilensis shimofuri (14 feet), Chusquea culeou (8 feet), Bashania fargesii (12 feet), Phyllostachys edulis (still in progress, 50 feet), P. heteroclada solidstem (20 fee...

Last summer's extreme drought in the Southeast was a good opportunity to gage the drought tolerance of various bamboo species. Based on last summer's midsummer shooters and the shooting results this spring. Last summer/fall, Borinda boliana, Fargesia nitida, and Bambusa emiensis (species and cultiva...

foxd: "MOSO shoots earlier in the Spring and is more like to lose its culms from a cold snap in cooler climates." This is certainly true. It also has the interesting adaptive mechanisms of alternate shooting and second wave shooting to help it cope with it's early shooting habit. I've onl...

I have my doubts about the idea that MOSO stores its energy in the culms rather than its rhizomes. I think it is more a case that MOSO shoots earlier in the Spring and is more like to lose its culms from a cold snap in cooler climates. I've been watching the shoots from my MOSO seedlings. They got ...

Not really. The older a grove is, the taller a culm with a given diameter will grow, partly because in an established grove the shoot has to grow up through the existing bamboo canopy, and partly because an older grove has a greater store of energy to pass along to a growing shoot. Also different sp...

I lost a nice 11 year old clump of Fargesia murielae when it flowered. Also my grove of Phyllostachys aurea albovariegata reverted to its all-green form (the white component of the chimaera bloomed) when it bloomed, so I ended up with a grove of green-leaf P. aurea. P. nidularia and P congesta died ...

I saw some Sasaella masamuniana albostriata at a Lowe's in Greenwood, SC about 5 years ago, but it wasn't a very good selection of the variegate (the leaves were mostly green with a few white stripes).

Semiarundianria fastuosa can develop a weeping form quite unlike its sun-grown stiffly upright form when grown in part shade and all of its running shoots are removed to force it to grow as a tight clump. Here's pics of the one in my garden. <a><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/M...

Here's shots of my Hibanobambusa tranquillans 'Shiroshima' <a><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/MikeMariettaSC/Short%20term%20photos/YuccaHibanobambusa1206.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a> <a><img src="http://...

My dulcis hasn't started shooting yet, but the largest dulcis shoot last year was 3.5" diameter.

20 days of moso shoot growth. Here's photos (too tall to get in one photo) of the shoot taken 10 days later (May 7) <a><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/MikeMariettaSC/Short%20term%20photos/MosoShoota507.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at ...

If you can resist pulling off the dried culm sheaths from your large diameter moso culms, they will form interesting patterns as they are shed naturally. <a><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/MikeMariettaSC/Short%20term%20photos/MosoStrippera407.jpg" border="0" alt=...