Help identifying some bamboo to use as privacy hedge

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Alan_L
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Re: Help identifying some bamboo to use as privacy hedge

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To my note about shooting -- and to confirm what Brad said -- my rubro planting has a few tiny shoots coming up right now, clearly from small rhizome pieces (not the main plant). The main shoots have not started yet. So the juvenile shoots are earlier.
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Re: Help identifying some bamboo to use as privacy hedge

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Awesome. Thank you all for help with the ID.


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Re: Help identifying some bamboo to use as privacy hedge

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Just thought I’d give a 1.5 year update. Shooting is just about done and this stuff absolutely killed it. Had like 10 shoots come up over 20 feet and more than I cared to count in all. Seems like the straw/horse manure combo really did it. The stuff in back of the house didn’t do nearly as good, so I just mulched it up really good and will be giving it a second dose of fertilizer this summer.


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Re: Help identifying some bamboo to use as privacy hedge

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That's looks very nice. And I'm glad to see I was correct in my id guess from the first post. I am curious, how are you controlling it in that space?
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Re: Help identifying some bamboo to use as privacy hedge

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The bed is elevated a few inches and I dug a couple inch trench all the way around it. Last July and August the rhizomes were popping out like mad so I would just pull them up and lay them back in the bed redirected to an empty spot. From like October on I haven’t seen any rhizomes escape. So it should be close to time to start watching again.


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