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28-Dec-2001
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Bamboo
Do you have to take special care for bamboo, what would you do differently when raising bamboo, rather then any other tree? Do they grow fast? Thank you.
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Re: Bamboo
True bamboo is very much like a grass. It does grow very quickly, but in spurts, between which it appears to be storing up energy for another rapid growth phase. Bamboo needs a lot of nitrogen to be healthy. You can use a lawn fertilizer or slow release fertilizer that is heavy in nitrogen. Bamboo can be propagated by separating the culms if it is a clumping type or cutting runners if it is a running type bamboo.
To keep it dwarfish, you need to constrain the growth in a pot and pinch out a portion of the growing tip. here is some information on bamboo cultivation "Lucky Bamboo" is not a true bamboo. If you click the search bar above and enter lucky bamboo, you'll find some info and links on that subject, too. Regards, Matt
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Re: Bamboo
OK, so pinch out growing tip, keep in pot. Use fertilizer high in nitrogen. But where would you get "true" bamboo from?? Thanks.
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There are thousands of species of bamboo, which is grass that grows from a rhizome and has a hollow interior (culm). Plants of the Family bamboo are the largest members of the grass family or graminacaea, and should be distinguished from other reedlike plants, including "Heavenly Bamboo" Nandina domestica, which is a barberry, (Berberidacea), and "Lucky Bamboo" which is in the lily (Agavaceae) family.
There are lots of bamboo genera, but if you find a plant at your garden center or one of the sites mentioned above or below, with the following Genus (the first name in the Latin naming convention) you can be certain it's a true-blue bamboo. [*]Bambusa [*]Fargesia [*]Indocalamus [*]Phyllostachys [*]Plieoblastus[*]Sasa[*]Yoshania Here is a link that discusses some of the differences http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/Features/curlybamboo/bamboo.htm Some more about true bamboos http://www.bamboogardenswa.com/spring2001.html The distinction between true and false bamboo certainly doesn't apply to any aesthetic concern or sense of value. If you want to grow and train and display a bamboo-like plant, please do it! The horiticultural and training methods may differ. Lucky Bamboo, for instance is wonderfully adapted to growing in an indoor environment. Regards, Matt
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