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by ZZZ
Sun Dec 24, 2023 4:48 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Dendrocalamus Validus
Replies: 5
Views: 812

Re: Dendrocalamus Validus

A king tide this past weekend resulted in water as high as any hurricane has caused since I've lived here: Dendrocal Val was underwater for a second time in two months but it's absolutely fine. In fact, the new culm in the picture I posted above @5-6 weeks ago is now 20ft tall and growing. For any e...
by ZZZ
Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:03 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Dendrocalamus Validus
Replies: 5
Views: 812

Re: Dendrocalamus Validus

Hello-- Thanks for offering the suggestion of stock tanks, but I have visions of 40' bamboo clumps falling over during our yearly tropical storm/hurricane events. It's cooling down here this time of year, and I spent the day removing dead avocado trees and too many dead bamboo culms. Timor/Lako, Eme...
by ZZZ
Fri Nov 03, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Dendrocalamus Validus
Replies: 5
Views: 812

Dendrocalamus Validus

This past hurricane resulted in the highest storm surge I’ve had since living here off the Gulf Coast of FL. All of my tropical bamboo was breached, and it’s not a pretty site. Nearly 10 years of cultivating various species of tropical bamboo along the property line all for naught. I’m waving the wh...
by ZZZ
Wed Jun 29, 2022 1:01 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Tropical Bamboo/No New Shoots/Zone 10a
Replies: 0
Views: 1943

Tropical Bamboo/No New Shoots/Zone 10a

Hello--

We're 2 days from July, and I have not seen even 1 new shoot yet this season from my established Chungii, B Emeiensis Flav, B Emeiensis V, Lako, or D Minor Amoenus varieties. The leaves have filled out, but no sign of new shoots. Weird.

Is this anything to be concerned about?

Thanks!
by ZZZ
Tue Aug 31, 2021 11:46 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Shoot thread
Replies: 25
Views: 9937

Re: Shoot thread

I noted my first--and to this point only--new Lako shoot about two weeks ago as well. Weird how we both have the same experience.

Still nothing new this year from my Emeiensis V, however. I've never had a bamboo go an entire summer with no new shoots like this.
by ZZZ
Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:57 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Shoot thread
Replies: 25
Views: 9937

Re: Shoot thread

Thanks Brad--

Just went and had a look after the heavy rain this morning, and no sign of new shoots yet from the aforementioned B Lako and B Emeiensis. It will be August in 4 days.

Very weird.
by ZZZ
Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:09 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Shoot thread
Replies: 25
Views: 9937

Re: Shoot thread

While my @5-year-old Chungii, B Emeiensis Flav, and D Minor Amoenus are all really taking off this year with a dozen new shoots each, I'm surprised to find one week from August now that my B Lako and B Emeiensis Viridiflavus still show no signs of any new shoots at all this season. These two specime...
by ZZZ
Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:22 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Dendrocalamus Validus
Replies: 13
Views: 4469

Re: Dendrocalamus Validus

Great photos...
by ZZZ
Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:01 pm
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great
Replies: 7
Views: 4742

Re: New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great

Original poster here. The Alphonse Karr finally gave up the ghost; I pulled out the dead clump today. This one remains a mystery, as I am in a hot, humid spot on an island in zone 10a where I have had excellent results growing tropical bamboo (excepting salt water inundation, though that was not a f...
by ZZZ
Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:54 pm
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Dendrocalamus Validus
Replies: 13
Views: 4469

Re: Dendrocalamus Validus

Hi Brad-- For whatever reason there seems to be very little info on the web regarding the D. Validus, and I am curious to see these red culms for myself. The aforementioned 18" shoot is showing red, but I am guessing I have set the growth back now by a few months after having transplanted it to...
by ZZZ
Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:01 pm
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: Dendrocalamus Validus
Replies: 13
Views: 4469

Dendrocalamus Validus

Hello-- I planted a small, 3gal specimen of this clumping variety amongst my exotic bamboo @6 months ago. I see this morning that it is sending up its first "real" shoot of substance; a great red color as I'd seen in the pictures online. At any rate, it occurs to me that I planted it too c...
by ZZZ
Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:50 pm
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great
Replies: 7
Views: 4742

Re: New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great

It occurs to me this is a fungus... Any suggestions as to how I remedy the problem? Will it spread to my other bamboo? On my Dendrocalamus Minor Amoenus (that is @50 yds away from this Alphonse Karr) I do note that while the newer growth looks great, the smaller, older culms in the center are turnin...
by ZZZ
Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:03 am
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great
Replies: 7
Views: 4742

Re: New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great

Hello Alan--

Yes they were....
by ZZZ
Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:09 pm
Forum: Growing Bamboo
Topic: New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great
Replies: 7
Views: 4742

New Alphonse Karr Not Looking Great

I have a raised bed that runs along the side of the house; it is filled with 6 or 8 different species of tropical bamboo in semi-sunlight so as to block out the annoying neighbors, The Al Karr I bought @2 months back was planted in an area with a little bit of a gap. I watered it every day for the f...
by ZZZ
Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:52 am
Forum: Bamboo Discussions
Topic: Bamboo + Flooding/Salt Water
Replies: 5
Views: 4336

Re: Bamboo + Flooding/Salt Water

Hi Glen-- Thanks for your reply. I didn't realize there was such a thing as "too wet" for bamboo, as my experience has been that bamboo will take as much (fresh) water as it can get. Then again, I have only dealt with clumpiers and not runners. You must have quite a bit of land to work wit...