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Old 09-11-2007, 10:18 PM   #41 (permalink)
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I wish I had the room to grow more but, unfortunately my yard is a small city lot and I've already filled it up with bananas! I really like the giant timber type bamboo.
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Yeah, the giant timber types are my favorites as well. The really large one I have, D. asper just put up a shoot that is showing some potential size. Its really gonna be a monster. Maybe you can squeeze one in there somewhere in between the naners.
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I positioned everything in the yard,(bananas and pineapples), for maximum sun exposure. The only place that's left that won't ruin my plan, is behind everything
else and underneath the power lines.If Greenie and I's Golden Hawaiian propagation project is successful, I'm not sure where I'll plant one of those!
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Yeah, the giant timber types are my favorites as well. The really large one I have, D. asper just put up a shoot that is showing some potential size. Its really gonna be a monster. Maybe you can squeeze one in there somewhere in between the naners.
Can you post some pictures how you are positioning and growing them in your yard, maybe I can get a couple of ideas from you. Besides, I'd like to see a pic. of that D. Asper.
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Can you post some pictures how you are positioning and growing them in your yard, maybe I can get a couple of ideas from you. Besides, I'd like to see a pic. of that D. Asper.
Brian, I would love to post a couple of pics, but I still do not have a camera. Hopefully within a couple of months I will pick one up. I would love to post a pic of my banana tree as well, because its getting pretty big, and its in great shape. The D. asper is putting up a shoot about two inches in diameter, which looks like its more than double the size of the last one. Next year I expect it to almost double. Within four years this is what I am expecting it to look like:
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That thing is HUGE!
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Old 09-15-2007, 06:13 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Oh, and I forgot to mention, that one is planted in almost complete shade. From a three gallon, it took about five years to get to that size, which is about its max, although it might get just a tad bit larger. The new shoot you see is six inches in diameter at chest high, and probably ten to twelve inches at its base. I have seen this one in person, and all you can really say is wow! The gentleman growing this is from whom I got mine from. What really struck me about this one, is that this bamboo really seems like a jungle bamboo than almost any other bamboo I have run across. Its form and the look about it really strikes that image in your head.
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Good stuff there Bamboo Conne'iseur !
Here is an update on the Bamboo project.I just noticed these 2 small shoots coming up today.
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Greenie, they look great. You got to love when you see those small shoots, as they are a sweet sign of success. Congrats to you.
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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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Nanaman was the one who took care of the propagation for our project.I think we used a certain portion of a MATURE stalk that was at least 2 years old.The stalk was cut into sections and planted into a sandy organic mix.I think they prefer full sun to start off than partial sun.
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Here are pics of my 2 bamboos. Both of these came from Tropical Bamboo in Loxahatchee and were in 5 gal pots. The Lako put out 4 culms this summer and the Asian Lemon 7. It is cool as the new stems have pink and peach colors. As it matures, it is yellow with green stripe.

Bambusa Lako "Timor black bamboo"


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That Timor is looking very nice Terry!
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I'm so jealous of you all living further south! The best I can grow is Yellow Groove. But it grows really well.
It's not too invasive here in Indiana as long as you do two things:
put it somewhere where you can mow all around it, or if you want it to fill in an area, just put barrier down around it.
Mine has gotten to be around 9-10 feet tall, and we don't baby it one bit. We just planted it and let it go after that. I haven't even watered it in three years.
I do have yellow groove available for sale if any of you cold weather people are interested, just let me know via private message.
this is a picture of it this spring (behind the basjoo).
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I'm so jealous of you all living further south! The best I can grow is Yellow Groove. But it grows really well.
It's not too invasive here in Indiana as long as you do two things:
put it somewhere where you can mow all around it, or if you want it to fill in an area, just put barrier down around it.
Mine has gotten to be around 9-10 feet tall, and we don't baby it one bit. We just planted it and let it go after that. I haven't even watered it in three years.
I do have yellow groove available for sale if any of you cold weather people are interested, just let me know via private message.
this is a picture of it this spring (behind the basjoo).
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Terry, love the Asian Lemon bamboo, how tall does it get?
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I have a couple successful starts from the propagation project also:


And a picture of an unknown multiplex variety that is growing extremely fast. It was in a 5 gal. pot with two small culms, and planted in the ground end of May 07. It now has 14 culms.
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Here is link to Tropical Bamboo's web page. The aisian lemon is about half way down. Click on the "other pictures" as that shows the neat stem colors it gets.

http://www.tropicalbamboo.com/bamboo_list.asp?page=2
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Just what are you guys propogating??

At Tropical, I saw a neat way to propagate.
He tied a rope to the top of a tall culm and pulled it over until it was bent it over a good bit then tied the rope to a stake. Then he took plastic pots and cut a hole about the size of the culm on two opposite sides. Then he cut from the top of the pot, down through the middle of each hole to the bottom of the pot. This way he could "unfold" the pot, place it around a trimmed up node on the culm with the culm going alll the way through the pot by means of the 2 holes. Filled the pot with spaghnum or something and wired the pot closed. It looked stupid with all these pots tied to this tall cane but he said it worked real well as the cane was still attached to the root mass and grew better. When he saw a lot of plants, he just cut them all off and potted them up.
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[quote=tlturbo;18817]Just what are you guys propogating??

We saw a pictorial on the web of propagating Golden Hawaiian Bamboo. Greenie acquired a culm of it, so we thought we'd give it a shot. It's supposed to be one of the easiest to start with.
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