southlatropical

I got these back in June and I was thrilled to find someone trading them. They came to me as two rooted stem cuttings shown above. The roots at the node were tiny and I just knew they were not going to make it. But now they are coming along nicely. My experience with bamboo has been that the cut off end of a stalk or stem starts to loose leaves pretty fast. What is the procedure for propagating from bamboo cuttings? Did you get those started with root divisions? Well, whatever it is I'm going to put one of them in the ground once they are big enough and see if it makes it here in zone 9.



The guy that traded them to me said it grows to a max of 4" in diameter although he did not know 100% if it was Golden Hawaiian. I found two other bamboo that get close to the size of GH and are almost identical in appearance. One of the new shoots has a little bit of pink tint in a few of the nodes. Does anyone know if GH has this coloration. I know Alphonse Karr does, but that can't be what I have if it grows to 4" diameter.

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