2009 Boo Shooting Diary

[boolover]

B. textilis gracilis

I have two. The one in heavy shade just put up its first of the season. I'm still waiting on the other that's located in more "ideal" conditions. Go figure?

B. golden goddess

Putting up fat shoots. This will be the second full summer in the ground. It started as a pretty nice size from a 15 gallon pot. It looks like the shoots will be at least one inch diameter. I'm surly not complaining, but wondering why they sized up so much?

[bepah]

B. mutliplex 'Golden Goddess...monster 1/2 inch culms

[bepah]

B. textilis gracilis

I have two. The one in heavy shade just put up its first of the season. I'm still waiting on the other that's located in more "ideal" conditions. Go figure?

B. golden goddess

Putting up fat shoots. This will be the second full summer in the ground. It started as a pretty nice size from a 15 gallon pot. It looks like the shoots will be at least one inch diameter. I'm surly not complaining, but wondering why they sized up so much?

It is now an adult....celebrate with a glass of wine!

[mr.mike]

Otatea acuminata Aztecorum "Mexican Weeping"

Dendrocalamus minor Amoenus "Angel Mist"

[foxd]

The potted Bambusa ventricosa "Buddha's Belly" has put up a shoot. Watching for shoots from the one in the ground.

[rickw]

B.M. Alphonse Karr, several shoots and one is over 7' tall so it must have popped up last week.

[dudley]

ventricosa
and v. clone x

[bambooweb]

I guess I need to add a new category to the plant list "UnDead" . I went to replace my Phyllostachys edulis with a different bamboo and it had 2 shoots.

I also have shoots starting on
Phyllostachys kwangsiensis
Shibataea kumasaca

We will see if any of my other 'dead' plants decide to come back.

Bill

[ghmerrill]

P.bambusoides 'Marliac'

[bambooweb]

I have found another one that I had marked 'Dead' but has a new shoot.
Phyllostachys aurea 'Koi'


Bill

[dudley]

dendrocalamus minor amoenus "angel mist"

[bepah]

Dendrocalamus latiflorus...3 new shoots, less than 1 year in ground.

[mr.mike]

Bambusa emeinsis Flavidorivens

Bambusa dissimulator

Giddyup!

[Matt in TN]

This is a "sort of" - my p. bambusoides that I thought was dead and gone this winter put up a couple of very small shoots about a month ago. I figured that would be all I got this year as it was killed back so far, but today a new shoot surfaced bigger than the original culm! Maybe there's more in this old girl yet -

I'm thinking (hoping?) that the first tiny shoots were simply "suvival" shoots, and the real shooting is just beginning. We'll see...

[mr.mike]

Dendrocalamus jianshuiensis

Bambusa dolichomerithalla 'Silver Stripe'

Bambusa textilis

Gigantochloa apus - this is the first of the gigantochloas to shoot this
season. (6-25-09)