Rain, Rain GO AWAY!!!

[Roy]

The last week we've had record heat and no rain. Should be raining buckets almost every day.

We got a little bit over 2.25 inches today and I'm a happy man.

[foxd]

WE GOT RAIN! ALMOST .05 INCHES OF RAIN AND MORE ON THE WAY!

[foxd]

I would have thought that the storm would of hit us, what with the edge being just a few miles from town and heading right for us. It dissipated. We are cursed!

[boonut]

If we got as much rain as we did this year - EVERY year, I think we could grow bamboo as big as the folks in Florida... maybe bigger. I think it has been pretty wet since December of 2006.

September is our rainy month.... Normally, we don't start seeing shoots for the year until after the September rains... then they shoot through December and sometimes into January.

Very interesting year. The farm looks very, very green. Normally, it looks pretty dry with big cracks in the ground by this time of year.

THANK YOU ALL FOR SHARING YOUR RAIN!!!

[Iowaboo]

month by month breakdown?

[Bamboo Conne'isseur]

If we got as much rain as we did this year - EVERY year, I think we could grow bamboo as big as the folks in Florida... maybe bigger. I think it has been pretty wet since December of 2006.

September is our rainy month.... Normally, we don't start seeing shoots for the year until after the September rains... then they shoot through December and sometimes into January.

Very interesting year. The farm looks very, very green. Normally, it looks pretty dry with big cracks in the ground by this time of year.

THANK YOU ALL FOR SHARING YOUR RAIN!!!

How did your papayas do with all the rain?

[marcat]

This was the first time in two months that I have been able to mow and that only in the area near the house. The Boos loved it no losses and the ground is still saturated so the established Boo need no extra water. The surface water table will start to receed if the rain holds off and I will have to start using my watering system again in a about two weeks I guess. On a well so that is not a problem. Oh and my 800+ foot driveway is useable again. (the second thing you do when bying land in the country after makeing sure you foundation is secure is make sure you have a reliable driveway). THis was one wet year.
MarCat

[boonut]

How did your papayas do with all the rain?

Almost all of them had yellowing leaves. Most lost about 60% of their leaves, but they are now coming back. I think they will be ok. I have one papaya tree in the back yard that is absolutely huge. It has many branches with each branch having bunches of papaya. I'll bet the one papaya tree has over 40 papaya this year. I only lost one papaya fruit.

We don't eat that much papaya. So many of the fruit dropped to the ground last year that we have papaya trees coming up all over after the rains.

We have about 8 chachalacas that visit the papaya trees on a regular basis. The wild parrots also love the papaya trees and fruit.

[Mike McG]

It looks like there is another Cat 5 heading for the Yucatan and then for Central Mexico. I did not hear very much about damage from Dean in Mexico, perhaps because it did not hit the US. I sure the people down there do not want another one to hit them, especially this soon.

In the meantime we could more rain here. I have been watering the newly planted boo and the ones now shooting. This was the third year in the ground for a mulberry seedling. It is about 8 ft tall and was really full of leaves about a month ago due to the rain we had had up until then. It now does not have a single leaf left on it. The cambium layer is still green but I am not sure it will re-leaf this year. Probably better if it doesn't.

Mike near Brenham TX

[marcat]

Mike you know how it is it was just them Mexicans who cares...If they would reprt all the damage those storms do any where maybe our neibours would be more prepared when one hits the US.
MarCat

[boonut]

It continues to rain down here. I think I have now lost 5 Bambusa Oldhamii from tissue culture, 2 Dendrocalamus Sinicus, 2 Dendrocalamus Minor "amoenus", 2 Dendrocalamus Asper, 2 Phyllostachyus viridis "Robert Young", 3 Bambusa Eutuldoides "viridivittata", and a few more are not looking too good.

The good news is I have plenty of each one of these, so I will just have to start over. This time I will build 2 feet mounds to plant them on. Oh, well...

I moved down here in 1982... and have never seen it rain so much for so long. Rain still in the forecast...

[mantis]

I think my Mexican Weeping is finally feeling the effects of all this rain... all new shoots are aborting. The old culms still are full of green leafs, but the majority of the leafs have black spots. The ground underneath it has a thick covering of dead leafs. I think I'm going to pull it out and put it in a pot in hopes that the roots can dry out and recover. I know it is going to stress it by pulling it out of the ground, but I figure if I leave it as is it is going to die anyway.

[Roy]

I think my Mexican Weeping is finally feeling the effects of all this rain... all new shoots are aborting. The old culms still are full of green leafs, but the majority of the leafs have black spots. The ground underneath it has a thick covering of dead leafs. I think I'm going to pull it out and put it in a pot in hopes that the roots can dry out and recover. I know it is going to stress it by pulling it out of the ground, but I figure if I leave it as is it is going to die anyway.

Make sure you put a lot of material such as Perlite in your potting mix so that it will drain extremely well.

[mantis]

Make sure you put a lot of material such as Perlite in your potting mix so that it will drain extremely well.

Most definitely. I have my dwarf Mexican Weeping in a pot, and it is doing fantastic. I'll just treat the two the same and hopefully the full size one will make a comeback. :crossing fingers:

[Roy]

Make sure you put a lot of material such as Perlite in your potting mix so that it will drain extremely well.

Most definitely. I have my dwarf Mexican Weeping in a pot, and it is doing fantastic. I'll just treat the two the same and hopefully the full size one will make a comeback. :crossing fingers:

Refresh my memory on your dwarf version of Mexican Weeping.