Re: anyone home?

gnarl wrote:
>
>Hi Jim!
>
>I found this NG over the weekend and read a lot of the posts...they
>seem to have tapered off a lot this year.
>
>I just purchased a Moso last week to add in the backyard. 
>My Blue Fountain has been blooming for the last few months, and I've
>gotten some seed...they sit in damp sand at this moment.
>
>I've mostly been propagating from runners, I've even a few six to
>eight inch new culms I've dug up with the runners and they seem to be
>progressing fine(no stunting from the transplant yet). These are
>mostly off my Japonica.
>
> I've a Nihira that does not seem to want to run. Have you ever tried
>plastic film wrapped around damp peat-moss at the branch nodes of
>culms? I've read about the technique and may try it today to get some
>starts from that plant.
>
>I'm in zone 8b. How are your growing conditions?


I'm in Zone 5, high in the Rockies.  Have some Fargesia Rufa in a
container which I just bought.  Container Pseudosas Japonica Arrrow
that is currently shotting.  It comes in during the harsh winter.
Started out at 18 inches last year and the shoots are over 30 inches
now.

Down in South FL, I have a few plants as well.  Chinese walking stick
that just went in the ground and is starting to shoot.  There is
another one but I'm sure my friend knows what it is.  Grows to about
thirty feet and has yellow/green vertical striations.