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bigone5500
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New additions to my grove!

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Thanks to Steve Lau, I now have two Moso plants in my grove. I planted them by digging a hole and filling it with manure to half way. I then pressed the manure to the sides of the hole and inserted the plant. After that I scraped the manure to around the roots and then filled the hole with top soil and a layer of manure then watered it. I mulched it to about 30" around it and put up a wabbit bawwier (Elmer Fudd)...

The trip from Rochester to Minden was pretty decent to the plants as I thought there would have been more abuse than there was evident. The taller one suffered bent culmitis but is expected to make a recovery.

Thanks Steve!
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I'm glad they made it there in one piece. It will be interesting to see how they will compare to my existing plants in a couple months. I might be putting a few in the ground once the soil is a bit drier just to see how they perform.

With access to a mature grove of henon, you could probably trade divisions to get many more boos. I'm pretty sure someone on this forum needs some henon.
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Awesome, hopefully more people that can grow the giant bamboo, will do it.
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