2007 Boo Shooting Season! : Not just for tropicals anymore!

[hotchkiss]

Our first bamboo to shoot in the ground (undisturbed) is Ph. praecox prevernalis



Others are not far behind.

[boonatick]

First one up this year was arrow the green onion type
doing the rounds today I noticed robert young popping up also sweet shootthat one is up sizing fast,a few spectabalis are showing and I tessalatsa few castilonsare shooting,HHHmmmI know there was more but I forget,sorry about not putting the right names in Ive been taking care of my groves but haven't been too involved it the greater bamboo world lately ,it was just so exciting seeing all the new shoots I had to come report in ,,,,have a good one ,,, oh yea I'm zone 8.5 just north of San Antonio Texas,Peace out

[David]

Nice shoot Mike! Is it as big as I think it is? I just got praecox last fall. How does prevernalis differ from the type?

[hotchkiss]

David,
I don't grow the regular Ph. praecox so I can't make a direct comparison. The ABS source list states that prevernalis has internodes that are smaller in the middle than at the ends. If they are it is not very noticable. I got this plant from Richard Waldron and the origin is somewhat hazy. It is a nice plant and I think that shoot is in the 1 1/2-2" range. It is listed at 2" dia. in the source list but our plant is 4 or 5 yrs old and I would guess may get larger. The shoot is somewhat similar to Ph. elegans and shoots at about the same time.

[EBinNC]

Moso finally shooting here... 3 weeks later than last year.

[jtkach]

Pseudosasa japonica has taken off. I went out this morning and had several shoots a foot and a half out of the ground. They were not there a couple days ago when I checked.

[Jeff: Igor's Apprentice]

Yee haw!
found my first shoot today- a Semiarundinaria fastuosa 'Viridis'.

[needmore]

Bashania fargesii, I. latifolius, I. tess Hamadae, Sasa cernua, Sasamorpha borealis all shooting here. With our current conditions and 10-day forecast I expect to see lots more taking off in the next 7-10 days.

[mantis]

I had to transplant a B. doli. 'Green stripe' last weekend, and unbeknownst (is that a word?) to me it had a baby shoot coming up. I killed it (the shoot, not the whole plant) when I was removing the mulch that I had piled around it this winter.

[Jeff: Igor's Apprentice]

OOOOhhhh... little shoots on my Indocalamus 'Hamadae' too!

[Roy]

...snip....
unbeknownst (is that a word?)...snip
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Yes it is and you even pronounced it correctly.

[Boblsky]

first shoots up today in NE Kansas. I found some sasaella albrostriata(spelling?) and one yellow groove shoot. finally getting some heat and rain, things should really explode in a week or 2

[foxd]

Found the first Hibanobambusa tranquillans 'Shiroshima' shoot of the season.

The Sasa veitchii hasn't put up any shoots yet, but it has lots of swollen leaf buds and should put up shoots any day.

[David]

Ph. violascens, and aureosulcata have joined the ranks of the shooting!

[mshaffer]

I just scraped away the top 1" of mulch and found about 7 Moso shoots.