2008 Boo Shooting Diary

[dudley]

new boos in ground less than a month
o.a.aztecorum
b. tuldoides v clone x
have shoots

[Roy]

I'm down to my last few that I'm looking at that don't have any new shoots.

My B. vulgaris 'Wamin' hasn't put up a new shoot yet. Didn't put up one last year either. Not a good sign.

B. lako. No shoots yet, but I did move and top it in the Spring.

There might be something else that hasn't put up a new shoot, but these are the only 2 I keep looking at.

[mr.mike]

Dendrocalamus sinicus finally put up a shoot. I noticed it yesterday as my front yard was on fire from the downed power line. I put a pic on the "other" pictures list on this site.

Nothing yet from Parker giant or several of the guaduas'.
It seems that the less cold hardy the plant is the lesser amount of shoots produced this year.

Roy, my wamin' hasn't put up shoots for two years either. Strange. It's been dropping leaves for about a month or so now and it did the same thing last year but it did put on new leaves then. I don't know what's going on with that one.

Mike

[Roy]

Dendrocalamus sinicus finally put up a shoot. I noticed it yesterday as my front yard was on fire from the downed power line. I put a pic on the "other" pictures list on this site.

Nothing yet from Parker giant or several of the guaduas'.
It seems that the less cold hardy the plant is the lesser amount of shoots produced this year.

Roy, my wamin' hasn't put up shoots for two years either. Strange. It's been dropping leaves for about a month or so now and it did the same thing last year but it did put on new leaves then. I don't know what's going on with that one.

Mike

I think that's normal for the B. v. 'Wamin'. My Wamin has gone through about 3 cycles this Summer. Leaves look nice and green, then the leaves start turning a brown and start falling off, then a new set of leaves come out, then it looks great again until the next cycle. Currently mine is dropping leaves and not looking so good.

[dudley]

my wamin looks good. three shoots this year.
lako has had a hard life.
first year irrigation failed and it almost died.
then it got cold and almost died again!
now two years with no new shoots but looks healthy.
if it doesnt produce next year i might move it.
four years old and its two culms, biggest one less than 1\2 "
diameter.
can the less cold hardy plants sense a cold winter coming?

[bepah]

I have 2 wamins in the ground for two years. Both have shootedshot/sprouted/made new culms this year; however, one of them seems to feel a bit sick about it as the plant appears a bit sickly since the new shoot, yellower, less robust than the other. Could it be that the demands of the new culm take energy from the older ones? The seconds new culm is less than a week old, I'll follow up on that and see if I have the same symptoms.

[dudley]

new shoots get all their energy from their "mother culm" until they leaf out and can provide their own. the "mother culm"leaves normally yellows alittle during this time.

[fredgpops]

N. California - Chusquea circinata. Rgds

[shuboo]

My B. V. wamin has 7 new shoots this season. It is in a 65 gallon container however. It has just given me my seventh shoot last week. My D. Asper 'Betung Hitam' has also given me a new shoot two days ago. Very excited about that one. Just a little fella but it's looking good.

[foxd]

In the past week I have found new shoots from the P. viridis 'Robert Young', P. aurea 'Koi', P. edulis and A. gigantea 'Paperweight'. the gigantea does not appear to be w whip shoot.

[gaz rogers]

The second flush started a couple of weeks ago on:
Fargesia robusta 'Red Sheath'
Thamnocalamus crassinodus 'Lang Tang'
Borinda albocera (Yunnan 2)

Some of these shoots may not reach full height due to winter, just depends how mild it is this year. I may get more shoots on others but with pretty much constant rain throughout August I doubt it. Well fingers crossed for next year.

Cheers,
Gaz.

[dudley]

kanapaha

a month ago i asked yall why i only get one or two shoots per year on my kanapaha and now all of a sudden i have 4.
apparently you just have to ask the right people!
many thanks

[rickw]

BM Alphonse Karr just keeps on putting up shoots. It put up small shoots when planted in March and starting putting up bigger shoots the middle of June and ocassionally since then; but after the heavy rains we've been having lately, it has more shoots coming up. I noticed 6 today.

Question: what's the deal with a single culm that is solid green? It is about 8'+ tall whereas the others are only about 7' tall. I'm thinking it is some kind of reverse mutation, is this normal?

[Roy]

BM Alphonse Karr just keeps on putting up shoots. It put up small shoots when planted in March and starting putting up bigger shoots the middle of June and ocassionally since then; but after the heavy rains we've been having lately, it has more shoots coming up. I noticed 6 today.

Question: what's the deal with a single culm that is solid green? It is about 8'+ tall whereas the others are only about 7' tall. I'm thinking it is some kind of reverse mutation, is this normal?

It does happen sometimes. The green ones (sometimes having a single yellow stripe) will be bigger than the regular B. A. Karr. I would cut the green one(s) out as they are more vigorous and get larger than they yellow with green striped ones.

[rickw]

Thanks Roy,
No single stripe, it is solid green; I've been looking at it for over a month, and can't find a stripe anywhere. I was thinking that I should cut it down before next year and it produces others that are green.