r/Bamboo

It's been being thinned regularly for years, so I suspect the culms could be bigger under other conditions. Coastal PNW. If different pictures are needed, please let me know what to look for. Thank you!

EDIT: I found out that there's two different bamboo types in the same spot, oops.

Is anybody used this salt, I thought is it necessary to process like this,what purpose does this has and really is this has market in India?!

This clumping bamboo stand came from starts from my grandpa 15-20 years ago. I remember it being at his place at least 10-15 years before that.

The whole stand died while I was away this year and I finally cut it out - and then realized it had gone to seed. I now know this is part of bamboo's natural cycle, but am looking for tips on how to successfully propagate some seed so it can continue to live on.

Pic is of some of what I just cut out and shows the seed.

Hello, i bought 13 clumping slender weaver bamboos to plant across the back of my very sloped (up) yard, to skew my neighbours view of my entire yard/back half of my house.

I bought mature plants 4m tall. Prepared a proper garden bed with fertiliser and healthy soil. Transplanted the plants. Watered daily (which the garden place i bought them from said was critical).

I planted them 4 weeks ago and we are in the final 2 weeks of winter in Australia right now (1hr south of Sydney) so its not too cold either. But suddenly their leaves look like the photos after looking really healthy the first few weeks. I dont water them with the blue sprinkler hose, i flood the base of each plant for about a minute, sometimes 90 seconds.

Am i doing something wrong? Do they need more, or less, of anything? They have around 5-10cm mulch around them, the soil is damp.

House hunting and the property border has a bunch of bamboo. Should I be concerned? Is it manageable?

Edit: house has lots of acreage. This is neighbors bamboo and not near the house. Looks like current owners simply chop it as it creeps over neighbors fence.

I’ve dug out all of the plants, followed all rhizomes to their ends, and dug at foot or so downwards - as well as taking out some rhizomes that had breached the sleeper into the lawn, and checking along the whole lawn/sleeper barrier for more.

I only saw rhizomes in the first 10cm or so of soil, and everything else has been loose soil and feeder roots - do I need to remove all of these comprehensively, or is being really thorough with the rhizomes enough?

I’ve still got a smaller patch to remove where it’s leaked ‘containment’, but am almost there I think.

There were a couple of rhizomes that had really annoying diverted downwards when they hit a wall, which I pulled out, and am fairly sure got the terminating node but there is possibly a small remnant >60cm deep, which I cannot get to as it’s behind a retaining wall. I think these should be fine as they were new shoots nowhere near the established plant and anything that might have been left would be very minor. I’ll be watching them next summer, though.

My main question, is the one on the feeder roots.

Thanks.

One of my groves, maintained and thinned yearly to keep it walkable, maintain size, and keep it in check. Largest canes are in the 4-5 inch (10-13cm) range and 40-50 ft (12 - 15m) in height. The new culms have the texture of velvet. They keep this texture for about 2 years until the elements wear it off.

If you look through a couple of my previous posts, you will see that my bamboo seem to be acting strange to me and now it’s doing this. Some of your experts on this, could you enlighten me to what’s happening? I’m referring to all of this growth at the bottom looking like a bush, but not actually growing in height.

I bought a Dendrocalamus giganteus quail garden several years ago and o can’t care for it appropriately. I am in San Diego you will need to ring your diggers and tools. Dm me if you want it.