On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:43:53 -0600, DG <xxx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>gnarl wrote:
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>>I haven't seen a Rufa yet, I'll have to look up some pictures.
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>http://www.bamboogarden.com/Fargesia%20sp.%20'Rufa'.htm
Very pretty! I like the reddish tones...
I have a Fargesia Robusta that is doing well; I have not tried
propagating a clumper yet but am developing stratagies.
http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=4161&cat=500&ppuser=2450
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>>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!
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>What Japonica is blooming?
Mark Mecks owns this group, someone gave him a flowering Japonica:
http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=4052
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>How are you taking starts?
I find a culm a little way away from the parent plant, dig down until
I find the connecting rhizome, cut through it with pruners or a
sawzall, then dig around it 6 to eight inches...from there it goes to
pot. A lot of leaves need be removed usually to compensate for the
impaired water uptake. Mature culms are recomended, but I'm working on
a way to transplant culms before they branch.
Here are some photos of the basic method I used on our Simonii:
http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2568&highlight=simonii
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>>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.
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>If I recall correctly, it's a bambusa. Not sure if it is a
>dolichomerithalla 'Silverstripe' or a vulgaris. It has long
>internodes.
I don't know that species...I'll have a look this evening...
g.
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>>DG wrote:
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>>>gnarl wrote:
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>>>>Hi Jim!
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>>>>I found this NG over the weekend and read a lot of the posts...they
>>>>seem to have tapered off a lot this year.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>>I'm in zone 8b. How are your growing conditions?
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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