HELP IDENTIFYING SPECIES & SOME PROPOGATION QUESTION

[Tyler Durden]

Im trying to figure out what kind of bamboo this is. I also have been getting some mixed info on how to propagate this plant, so ive posted these pics. Do I simply dig up the rhizomes and replant or do I cut the stock with some growth coming out of the ring and plant that?

[Arachnotron]

My guess would be Bambusa vulgaris. http://www.bambooweb.info/ShowPictures. ... ton=Search


Here is a nice write-up with pictures for propagation. http://www.bambooweb.info/bb/viewtopic. ... 87&start=0


Where are you located?

[Rex]

Wait just a second here ...
Something about that last picture tells me you should think twice before propagating this plant . Do you plan to move the propagated plant near other bamboo?

[Tyler Durden]

No there wont be any other bamboo around except I do plan to transplant several from that cluster to the other area.

[Tyler Durden]

Arachnotron Im in south FL, thanks for your quick reply. I was about to dig up the small rhizomes in the first picture, do people ever do that?

[Roy]

Arachnotron Im in south FL, thanks for your quick reply. I was about to dig up the small rhizomes in the first picture, do people ever do that?

Those are new shoots and you would be wasting your time digging them up. They would just die. B. vulgaris is so easy to propagate. No need to dig. Just cut down a culm, cut into pieces and stick in the ground now. It will root easily and you will have more vulgaris than you know what to do with. And being in South Florida, you won't have to worry about it freezing back.

[Tyler Durden]

Thanks Roy, now as far as speed of growth goes if I cut the roots out and plant 16 feet of it http://www.bambooweb.info/bb/viewtopic. ... 87&start=0 Then use the rest to divide up and plant, is bigger better or should I stick to a couple feet?

[Roy]

Thanks Roy, now as far as speed of growth goes if I cut the roots out and plant 16 feet of it http://www.bambooweb.info/bb/viewtopic. ... 87&start=0 Then use the rest to divide up and plant, is bigger better or should I stick to a couple feet?

If you want something bigger faster, then dig or cut out the culm and rhizome and plant. But cutting out 16 of them is going to be a lot of work.

[Rex]

Okay,
I'm going to try this again!
I'm just trying to help after all.
I-think-this-grove-of-bamboo-may-have-a-mite-problem.

[Roy]

Okay,
I'm going to try this again!
I'm just trying to help after all.
I-think-this-grove-of-bamboo-may-have-a-mite-problem.

OK Rex, I don't know a lot about mites on bamboo, but my understanding is that they tend to flourish in drier air and not in the tropical atmosphere of central and south Florida. 30 years and I haven't seen any mites on my bamboos in Tampa.

[mantis]

What I see looks like a nutrient deficiency. Hit it with some fertilizer, and I bet the leaves green up.

[Rex]

Oh, so the yellow splotches on the leaves are due to nutrient deficiency? It looks similar to mite leaf damage. Sorry for misinforming you Tyler Durden.

[mantis]

Oh, so the yellow splotches on the leaves are due to nutrient deficiency? It looks similar to mite leaf damage. Sorry for misinforming you Tyler Durden.

B. vulgaris is very difficult to make look pretty. When I first got my vulgaris I thought it had BaMV (Bamboo Mosaic Virus). I hammered it with high nitrogen fertilizer, and it looked great! That is until the first freeze. It got down to 27 degrees, and it never came back. Oh well. Put a B. chungii 'Barbi' in it's place.

[webgator]

B. vulgaris is very difficult to make look pretty. When I first got my vulgaris I thought it had BaMV (Bamboo Mosaic Virus). I hammered it with high nitrogen fertilizer, and it looked great! That is until the first freeze. It got down to 27 degrees, and it never came back. Oh well. Put a B. chungii 'Barbi' in it's place.

We hit 19F in the yard this last winter and I was surprised to see the Vulgaris first sending up what I like to call panic shoots, which resulted in it looking like a nice little bamboo shrub. Even more surprising is the new 20+ foot culm that has since grown...that will become propagation material before it freezes once again in the winter.