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Old 07-19-2022, 09:52 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I am still waiting for my banana seeds to arrive.
I ordered some bamboo seeds that have already arrived.
I tried to germinate bamboo seeds in the past without success.
I am trying again.
Has anybody grown bamboo successfully from seed?
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Old 07-21-2022, 06:49 AM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Default Re: Moso Bamboo from seed

NO we haven't if you found any do let us know. Thanks
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I actually have grown Moso from seed in the past but I don't remember doing anything special beyond what one might normally do for starting vegetable seed indoors.....with 24hr pre-soak and humidity cover. If I remember correctly the germination rate was quite high, 60-70% or something like that.

I can't really recollect how fresh the seed was. I want to say I got it from the bamboo nursery where I was working at the time which would have been extremely fresh....but that could be incorrect as I can't say I remember us having flowering Moso.

Not sure that helps much but I thought I would throw it out there.

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This thread is too funny.. Yesterday I drive past a Bamboo Farm here in Tx.. As you might expect it was everywhere.. Personally I'd never grow the stuff myself.. I'd grow a patch of Sugarcane 1st I know I can get rid of it as fast as I grew it.. Bamboo needs to stay in a pot w/ a water pan, in my eyes, but good luck and Happy Growing..
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This thread is too funny.. Yesterday I drive past a Bamboo Farm here in Tx.. As you might expect it was everywhere.. Personally I'd never grow the stuff myself.. I'd grow a patch of Sugarcane 1st I know I can get rid of it as fast as I grew it.. Bamboo needs to stay in a pot w/ a water pan, in my eyes, but good luck and Happy Growing..
Sugarcane! Makes me start some again next year
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My neighbor planted bamboo ten years ago and has been fighting ever since to eliminate it from his yard. The stuff has migrated into my yard. Once a year I have to dig the stuff out and cut it back to the fenceline. I hate it with a passion and don't recommend it to anyone.
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All good points - I personally love running bamboo, and, at least in the areas of the west coast where I have grown it, it is not hard to control. But it does require some planning and regular maintenance.

Having said that, if considering growing a running variety of bamboo, one needs to think very hard about what they are committing to and have a thorough understanding of what will be involved. If not willing to do that, absolutely stay away, it will just create a major headache for the grower and, as Akula mentioned, neighbors. Do not become THAT neighbor.

There are many beautiful varieties of clumping bamboos (some that are morphologically clumpers can still spread quickly, so choose varieties carefully) that will do well in most areas in N. America...and while they can get big, they don't do it very quickly.

So if you are not willing to commit to keeping your bamboo to yourself, DO NOT GROW IT....

But it can be done, and relatively painlessly.....if willing to be diligent ....

....in my opinion anyway....

....and, I can't speak for climates outside the Pacific Northwest.....
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This thread is too funny.. Yesterday I drive past a Bamboo Farm here in Tx.. As you might expect it was everywhere.. Personally I'd never grow the stuff myself.. I'd grow a patch of Sugarcane 1st I know I can get rid of it as fast as I grew it.. Bamboo needs to stay in a pot w/ a water pan, in my eyes, but good luck and Happy Growing..
I will only grow "clumping" bamboo types. I does not send out runners.
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Good plan - but you do know Moso is a big running bamboo, correct?
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... Personally I'd never grow the stuff myself.. I'd grow a patch of Sugarcane 1st I know I can get rid of it as fast as I grew it...

SOLD! You sold me. I forgot about sugar cane and sorghum.
They are tall and look like bamboo.
I am rethinking the moso bamboo for now.
The nana seeds came in.
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The Sugar Cane I ordered arrived.
I have them in a pot.

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