New culms

[needmore]

Thought I'd start a new culms thread, as the leaves fall away from the snoots the new canes are so beautiful...Spectabilis here, I have a few more I wanna get pictures of soon.

[JWH]

Tumidissinoda

[needmore]

Tumidissinoda

awesome, I really wish I could grow this one here...

[Alan_L]

I'll add my Spectabilis to the mix:

[JWH]

Gorgeous Spectabilis' there Needmore & Alan_L! I can only hope to have thick culms like that someday!

My spectabilis is still just a baby, but it's pretty to me

[JWH]

Semiarundinaria Fastuosa 'Viridis'

This bamboo acts very bizarrely here. It shoots and spreads rhizomes here at the same time in August. Too late in the season here for the culms to finish growing and leafing out until next spring.

Pretty green culms though.

[needmore]

3 Phy arcana invading a poorly scrawny Phy lithophylla

Phy glauca 'Yunzhu'

[needmore]

1st 2 photos are Phy fimbriligula which I am suspecting is not, to me it looks like iridescens or glauca form and does not seem to match the Chinese book description, still pretty though and sizing up fairly well.

Shanghai 3

Phy aurita culms are heavy in powder and have brown hairy rings around to nodes for several weeks before falling away

[needmore]

The moso shoot that was trapped under a rock has taken off

[stevelau1911]

The moso shoot that was trapped under a rock has taken off

It looks like that should be breaking 20ft eh? That's some pretty long internodes for moso especially if it's a couple inches in diameter. Is it your biggest one? The division I got from you is struggling to push 1 shoot, but it still looks like it will come out successfully and get nice and bushy.


It looks like my spectabilis culms should be clearly larger than the old ones by a bit, but once they pass the 1/2 inch mark, I know that aureosulcatas generally don't upsize that fast.

[Alan_L]

Ph. bissetii:


Ph. aureosulcata 'Harbin Inversa':

[needmore]

Vibrant green new culms of Phy acuta

Phy aurita

Phy fimbriligula which I no longer think is such, I strongly suspect a form of glauca

It is getting tall enough to dwarf the phone lines and is not far below the electric lines

Shanghai 3 is also crowding the lines and Steve Lau I do think it sizes up faster than standard Dulcis

S3 with Harbin Inversa to the left

Phy lofushanensis, very nidularia-like in shoot structure and large nodes, hairy nodes, more powdery perhaps than nidularia

Phy vivax Hung. Inversa

Clean new culms of Phy vivax aureocaulis

2 photos of propinqua 'Beijing'

[JWH]

Nice culms there Needmore! I really need to get ahold of some Shanghai 3 someday. I wonder if it would get big culms in the Northwest?

[stevelau1911]

Shanghai 3 is also crowding the lines and Steve Lau I do think it sizes up faster than standard Dulcis

Based on your picture, it looks like 5 smaller shoots are getting aborted at the expense of the 3 big ones so the apical dominance on s3 may be a bit greater than that of regular dulcis. My big shoot on shanghai III aborted as it seems to have put all its energy into leafing out the branches which kind of sucks because that really limits the number of leaves that can be produced. I still don't think it's as fast in upsizing as bicolor.


I'm impressed by how easily your beijing can spread and upsize each year. Mine is making very small gains in territory each year, and the average size of the shoots is almost identical to what it has been in the last 2 years despite getting almost no leaf burn every winter.

[needmore]

There is a 4th S3 culm out of the picture but yes, those have aborted. You can't leap to any conclusions based on your one big bicolor shoot, too small a sample to really have a conclusion there don't you think? My largest moso shoot came up a few years back, was a sudden upsize and had never produced another shoot that size in the subsequent years so that could be your case as well - maybe not though who can say...yet?

JWH - Bamboo Garden has some so you will soon find out how it does there'ish.