jameshadlow;797640 Wrote:
> Ok i brought 50 Moso bamboo seed and they arrived today the only info i
> have is for Germination after that i have no info.
Check this out
http://tinyurl.com/3hq7r4
In addition to those instructions, in UK I would suggest using a one of
those electric propagators that provide bottom heat, as otherwise it
often isn't warm enough here to get them going easily.
People generally don't bother trying to grow Moso in the UK. It is
quite hardy enough to survive, but it doesn't grow well. It needs those
hot sticky wet summers they get in places like Japan and much of the
USA.
If your aim is to grow a big fat bamboo in the UK perhaps try one of
the following and feed and water them very well, [and plant them well
inside your property boundary, where you can mow all around it to
restrict any escapes, or else install an effective rhizome barrier].
(all Phyllostachys species):
P. vivax: the species (green) or very common aureocaulis (yellow with
green stripes) is fine, but hard-to-find huavenzhu inversa (similar to
aureocaulis) is supposed to be best. Vivax aureocaulis is sold by some
non-specialist garden centres, but you'll probably pay less by getting
it from a bamboo specialist.
P. "Shanghai 3": fairly widely available from exotics specialists,
green, not so different from vivax (species)
P. atrovaginata: hard to find, but the fattest bamboo they have at Kew
P. irridescens: another rare sought after one
there are also some rare and special ones like Chusquea gigantea, that
you would have to pay a lot of money for.
People generally don't bother growing from seed either, for a number of
reasons:
- Most species there is no seed available, because they hardly ever
flower
- A lot of species the seed needs to be very fresh to be viable, so a
lot of people buy dead seed from unscrupulous internet sellers and get
nothing
- The bamboo grows very slowly at first, and will take several years to
reach the size of what you can get in a 5-litre pot from a garden centre
- there is a reason those 5-litre pots cost 15 to 30 pounds or more,
depending on the species.
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