Re: anyone home?

gnarl wrote:
>
>I haven't seen a  Rufa yet, I'll have to look up some pictures.


http://www.bamboogarden.com/Fargesia%20sp.%20'Rufa'.htm


>My Japonica is about eight feet tall and I'm hoping it not going to
>bloom; I'm taking starts from it this year. I've read in a few places
>that Japonics can bloom and continue to thrive...I hope this is the
>case!


What Japonica is blooming?  

How are you taking starts?


>Is your Florida plant yellow with green stripes or green with yellow
>stripes? I've a Spectabilis(yellow with green stripes) that is about
>twenty feet tall...it also has random bends in about one-third of the
>new culms.


If I recall correctly, it's a bambusa.  Not sure if it is a
dolichomerithalla 'Silverstripe' or a vulgaris.  It has long
internodes.


>DG wrote:
>
>>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.