Picked up some bamboo today that someone had dug for sale. This shoot ended up in my possession.
Any thoughts?
Got some Sasa veitchii, some taller kind of Sasa (I think), and some of this large boo.
It wasn't yellow groove or golden as I had suspected it might be.
An impressive grove though. A lot of the glaucous residue. Stupidly, i forgot my camera and even my camera phone.
AH, well... I think all the timber bamboo is toast anyway. Maybe the veitchii too.
The 6 FT Sasa division fared a little better and is worth what I paid.
I did lay the ground work to be able to come back and dig my own at a later (and better) time.
Hopefully, I will get some pictures then. And a sizeable, viable, division.....
dont completely give up on it, if there was some rhizome mass, it may shoot out some small survival shoots this year, and then start doing something for you next year....
I agree -- any freshly dug plant that you think is dead, leave it in the pot for a few months and see what happens. I received a small sad looking Pleioblastus chino division that appeared to die. All top growth turned dry and brown within a couple weeks of potting it up. But I left it alone, and a month or two later it produced a few new leaves and some small shoots.
Alan_L wrote:I agree -- any freshly dug plant that you think is dead, leave it in the pot for a few months and see what happens. I received a small sad looking Pleioblastus chino division that appeared to die. All top growth turned dry and brown within a couple weeks of potting it up. But I left it alone, and a month or two later it produced a few new leaves and some small shoots.
I have a Pleioblastus chino 'Murakamiansus' that has looked that way for close to two years. I'm not sure what is up with it. I supect it would do better planted in the ground, but it isn't really supposed to be cold hardy here.
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Alan_L wrote:I agree -- any freshly dug plant that you think is dead, leave it in the pot for a few months and see what happens. I received a small sad looking Pleioblastus chino division that appeared to die. All top growth turned dry and brown within a couple weeks of potting it up. But I left it alone, and a month or two later it produced a few new leaves and some small shoots.
I have a Pleioblastus chino 'Murakamiansus' that has looked that way for close to two years. I'm not sure what is up with it. I supect it would do better planted in the ground, but it isn't really supposed to be cold hardy here.
Dan, it topkills but comes back strong every year here, so go ahead and plant it if you are so inclined.
needmore wrote:it topkills but comes back strong every year here, so go ahead and plant it if you are so inclined.
Brad, by "comes back strong" do you mean to say it's getting larger each year? And does "larger" mean more spread or more height, because you've mentioned that you have some species that spread but aren't sizing up as you expected (the Semiarundinarias I believe it was).
Alan, comes back with pretty foliage and lots of spread, not upsize. The green Chino is hardier and will get over your head pretty fast but the variegated forms are more like really tall ground covers here.
Brad -- how tall is yours? Mine is currently 3 inches tall, so no upsize puts this on the low end of the scale. (Mine is Pleio. chino 'Kimmei' if it matters)
its pretty amazing what a bamboo can come back from. but its always the ones you have plenty of. the surest way to kill one is to only have ONE of that type!
Alan_L wrote:Brad -- how tall is yours? Mine is currently 3 inches tall, so no upsize puts this on the low end of the scale. (Mine is Pleio. chino 'Kimmei' if it matters)
I mow this one each year with the ground covers, it is probably around 2 feet tall right now, I have one in a pot for 2-3 years now that is only 3feet or so, I think it is just slow to size up. I find most variegated bamboo to be slower than the green type forms, my HTranquillans hits about 8 feet while the HTS is more like 3-4. Green Chino had approached 7 feet before last winters' setback.
(Mine is Pleio. chino 'Kimmei' if it matters)
