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- Wed Apr 01, 2020 5:59 am
- Forum: Exchanges
- Topic: Ph. virella for sale for a limited time
- Replies: 0
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Ph. virella for sale for a limited time
I have an extra Phyllostachys virella rhizome available for sale in early April. This plant is vigorous and among the most cold hardy bamboos, appearing similar to Ph. rubromarginata. Feel free to submit any bids via PM . I'll alternately accept bamboos on my list of wanted plants for trade. Optiona...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:09 am
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Bamboo + Salt...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7651
Re: Bamboo + Salt...
Even one surviving culm can push new growth in time. :) For fastest recovery, it would be best to avoid disturbing the existing rhizomes and allow new rhizomes to grow into the newly added soil. This strategy is not without risk from another high salt water event. Yet such an event does not occur ev...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 3:19 am
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Phyllostachys virella
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12152
Re: Phyllostachys virella
The virella here suffered topkill last winter with temperatures down to -27° C (-18° F). It's a survivor, including a recent rhizome division planted out in the open with little care amid the brome grass. Since last winter, recovery growth of that virella bamboo reaches about a meter high. In terms ...
- Mon May 23, 2016 9:41 pm
- Forum: Exchanges
- Topic: Looking for spares
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10713
Re: Looking for spares
I've a surplus of aureosulcata 'Lama Temple' here after a relatively mild winter.
Brad, is this one of the bamboos that you're seeking?
Brad, is this one of the bamboos that you're seeking?
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 5:55 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: How fast should yellow groove grow?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5412
Re: How fast should yellow groove grow?
In addition to water, a bamboo like yellow groove requires fertile soil and full sunlight to grow and spread rapidly. These factors become more important in an area where the bamboo may suffer leaf damage from a cold winter. Is there something I can do to propagate or does it just take a few years b...
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:35 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Newcomer to Bamboo
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16171
Re: Newcomer to Bamboo
For more success with parvifolia in zone 5, the rhizomes are best planted deep in a fertile low area that receives generous snow cover in the winter and full sun in the growing season. If the snow isn't heavy before temperatures drop, extra snow can be shoveled over a young parvifolia to form an ins...
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:41 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Need advice on containment of bamboo
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5294
Re: Need advice on containment of bamboo
I'm considering a 30" 60mil barrier completely surrounding the bamboo to keep it out of the neighbor's yard and our other landscaping areas. [...] Will the full containment work? The area of containment is about 3' x 16', minus 1' from the fence, so actually 2' x 16' between the fence and the ...
- Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:57 pm
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Different culm colors during the shooting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4610
Re: Different culm colors during the shooting
Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Lama Temple' photos:
- Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:27 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Different culm colors during the shooting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4610
Re: Different culm colors during the shooting
Regarding culm colors, that aureosulcata is a wild bamboo. :D Phyllostachys aureosulcata 'Lama Temple' has been growing here since 2009 and I've noticed interesting culm colors over time, especially after colder weather. For example, here's a culm that turned black after winter a couple years ago. F...
- Fri Jun 19, 2015 7:32 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: comparing Phyllostachys species for edible shoots
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13628
Re: comparing Phyllostachys species for edible shoots
Thick shoots make a meal,
but add hunger for bamboo
and lean shoots can do.
but add hunger for bamboo
and lean shoots can do.
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:04 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: comparing Phyllostachys species for edible shoots
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13628
Re: comparing Phyllostachys species for edible shoots
Has anyone here tasted shoots from multiple Phyllostachys species? Besides size and quantity and shooting times, how do they compare as far as taste and ease of preparation? Parvifolia is the tastiest among the few bamboos that survive the winters here. :D Fresh parvifolia shoots here are the easie...
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 8:20 am
- Forum: Growing Bamboo
- Topic: Ever try to kill a patch and later change your mind?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3338
Re: Ever try to kill a patch and later change your mind?
Has anyone done this before? What should I expect for results? Phyllostachys aureosulcata (including f. aureocaulis) appears exceptionally resilient. I've a bamboo of the 'Lama Temple' variety here that initially recovered from a thin culm and a small rhizome fragment. This bamboo continues to spre...
- Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:09 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Boiling Bamboo?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6720
Re: Boiling Bamboo?
jd, what solution do you think is used? just water? water and lime? salt? Besides applying heat, one of the objectives of boiling is to remove water-soluble compounds that would otherwise support microbial growth or insect attack. Plain water would serve this purpose. For flooring, they might also ...
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 7:37 pm
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Boiling Bamboo?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6720
Re: Boiling Bamboo?
Just trying to "stabilize" the piece of bamboo (one node in-tact, -not- drilled out). Think of a flower vase made from bamboo. What is happening is: dry bamboo to a MC of 8% over several weeks -> in Mississippi climate it comes back to around 20% MC -> then it ships to Denver, CO and it c...
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:17 am
- Forum: Bamboo Discussions
- Topic: Boiling Bamboo?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6720
Re: Boiling Bamboo?
While I've never read of boiling bamboo, I speculate this method would show some benefit for heat treating bamboo that has the nodes drilled out. However, you may have an easier time reaching a desired temperature using steam or another method of heating. For example, a maker of bamboo rods wrote ab...