Re: Hello
Thank you Ron. The tallest bamboo I currently have is about twenty feet or so. They are all still fairly young. Right now the tallest is the B. Lako aka Timor black. It should give me a mature height of around 40 to 50 feet or so, possibly a bit taller. My bamboo with the greatest potential size wise is the D. asper, which will easily give me a six inch diameter culm and around 60 feet tall, and possibly more as well. In its native country it can grow up to 100 feet tall, and somewhere around 10 inches or so diameter. I expect mature size in about four years or so. My fastest grower is one called Golden hawaiian or B. vulgaris-vittata. It can reach maturity in three years with the right conditions. It produces a very bright yellow culm with green stripes that appear to be painted on, that can get four to maybe five inches in diameter. A mature clump that is taken care of properly, is quite a sight to behold as with the rest. I am a big fan of the giants and the ones with amazing colors as well. I will try to post some pics in a thread here soon. Thank you for welcoming me, and I am sure we will converse some more.
Regards
Aaron
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