erm1981 wrote:small parker giant shoot coming up.

Just for an update the Bambusa Textilis has done the best out of my boos. Even the 20's didn't kill it. Going to be huge starting in March.

How do your tropicals look now? The winter we had here in California was not bad except for one week when the temps got into the 20's several nights in a row. It was under 32 some nights as soon as the sun set. Never had such cold weather here since 1990. I removed all of my least hardiest and repl...

Where are you at in Florida? Jacksonville is similar weather to Charleston. Our winter last year was the coldest we have had in 20 years in Charleston.

Frost ended up killing the above ground growth on parker giant and bambusa oldhamii this year. It was very cold and we even got snow down here which hardly ever happens. Pretty sure the roots are still alive so something will come back......

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erm, can you post some pics? did shoots survive this year? Yes from what i can tell most culms lived. Will know more in spring if they leaf out again. Green blue color is a good thing. The largest shoot of parker giant shoot shot late and got top killed in November because it could not harden off. ...

Im a little colder here (8b/9a) It got down to 18 degrees farenheit (rare)the other night but parker giant canes still appear green but leaves totally burned.....textilis was ok with leaf burn, and oldhamii had some leaf burn. That might have been coldest night we have this winter. Moso plant i grew...

bambusa textilis kanapha

in the ground now.....June 2013

small parker giant shoot coming up.

Here are some pics of my: Bambusa oldhamii (tiny baby ;-)) Bambusa textilis 'kanapha' (putting up new shoot) Dendrocalamus 'parker giant" (this one will probably suffer when it gets winter and I know im taking a chance with it. I was shocked to see this new shoot poking up that looks to be bigg...

thanks guys.

I think it's fun to test the limit with some of the bamboo to see how they handle cold stress. I notice my young seedlings were fragile at first to frost up in 7b but they have hardened off now to where the weather does not affect them.