Running H Inversa

[needmore]

This is the spread from 2, 2 year old 3 gallon Harbin Inversa (off to the left of the pic, the plant in the foreground is forsythia). Left of the big Hickory tree in the background are shoots from the further plant, running an equal distance. The soil in this area is lousy and I haven't been able to get things going so I put down about 5 inches of cow poo/sand mix and it seems to have helped.

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[Thuja]

Nice movement there! It's staking its claim on the cow manure. I really like this plant: vigorous and nice colors. I have a couple shoots up maybe half the height of yours.

[Iowaboo]

It reminds me of the board game risk. Looks like alot of your army is popping up on brown country, but will they be able to to take the green country,too.

Soon, the bench will be swallowed up and gone, hmm!

I really like this plant: vigorous and nice colors

[Markj]

Amazing , you wouldn't recognize that plant here

[needmore]

These are 3rd year shoots from a TINY 4 inch section of Ebay Spectabilis rhizome. Being a know it all, I notified the vendor that this is really too small of a rhizome to provide viable culms. It's now my largest Spectabilis despite bigger starts in the other plantings 2 other rhizomes are producing similar results on the other side of the plant.

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[JakeK]

It looks as if you are several weeks ahead of me in shooting. Some of those shoots look to be really sizing up (comparing the shoots to the tree trunk, so I could be way off base).

[needmore]

I have Nuda shoots that are shoulder high and several species not poking out yet. The Spectabilis measured .75 which is pretty good for 3 years.

My camera & I are currently not on speaking terms, as it will not let me manually focus, I tried taking pics of a 1.25 inch Yellow Groove shoot coming up now. That is the largest YG I've seen in Indiana, although I know there are larger ones around, I've just not seen them. This one is in a high traffic spot so it may not make it but I bet they'll be others.This means that in 5 years this grove is producing larger culms than the mature grove of 20+years I dug them from. This particular grove has never had any of the manure & I can't reach it with the hose but still it is fattening up nicely. Must be the 12-12-12 applications, who knows?

I'll dig out my manual and improve this pic.

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While I'm at it, here are some of the close in 1st year shoots from a 2005 Field Division of A. Aureocaulis (background culms)


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[kstanwick]

I'll aggree with that one brad. It appears that my shoots are only about and inch to an inch and a half(YG). I am hoping to recieve a start of spectabilis myself anytime now...i'm very excited about this one.....so i'm guessing you have two to three weeks on me....I'll bet its the same in the fall as far as frost goes....When is your last frost?? the rule of thumb here is no annuals until may 5th...

[needmore]

Kurt, our frost dates are something like May 10 & October 15. I don't bother to plant any annuals before May. We are still prone to frost as late as you are but I think that we tend to warm up a lot faster. I checked my max/min thermometer and it has 3.3F on 2/19 and 92.3F on 4/15. Shoots for me this year are about 2 weeks behind last year despite our very extended warm spell, and I would guess that this is due to a real chilly March that cooled the soil off. Last year we had a March warm spell and shoots popped early.

My climate is almost identical to yours in Cincy Jake, except I do not get any urban warming effect and I'm usually a few degrees cooler than Bloomington, but recently we've been warmer than there as well

Most of my bamboo groves are on slopes that get full sun all day until the trees leaf out so my soil may warm up faster than in your neighborhood where perhaps house etc. create shade?

[kstanwick]

Hmmm...nope i pretty much cleared out my trees to make way for bamboo...lol....curious what type of thermometer you have. I have an atomic clock with remote temp. sensors i can put around but i don't like it. You also probably have better prepared soil than i ...lots of om possibly to generate extra heat. i just started mulching a bit last year. I bet that might be a contributing factor.

[needmore]

Yeah, I have 2 of the atomic remote types, both remotes in total shade.

You know although mulch surely does keep the soil warmer all winter and through early spring, I find that it is slower to warm up once we get the warm days like we've had for the past 10 days or so. I'm always surprised when I reach down into the deep mulch and feel how much cooler it is than the surrounding soil, which obviously warms up fast due to direct sun exposure.

I think that your area in the NE just doesn't warm up as fast but Jake in Cincy should be a tad warmer than me here.