Shooting season

[crazy4diesels]

Decora shooting like crazy... plants had two small culms each last year and are 1-1/2 years old. One plant has 17 shoots, 14 with good upsizing. They have run about three feet.
Congesta just starting to shoot... Only a few shoots. These were large field digs last fall so no running yet. Bamboo is the most exciting plant to watch!! Best of luck - John

[Robbie78]

Im envious its only gotten above 70 a couple of times and none of my outside running bamboo is shooting yet.......im a little worried but I know it will shoot most likely in late May

[stevelau1911]

Im envious its only gotten above 70 a couple of times and none of my outside running bamboo is shooting yet.......im a little worried but I know it will shoot most likely in late May

That's pretty much the same for me. The bamboos that we have in common such as f nitida, atrovaginata, parvifolia, nigra, and rubromarginata still aren't shooting for me yet. I put an olive colored plastic mulch around some of them to heat up the soil to speed up the process and I might leave it on throughout summer/fall to speed up rhizome growth too.

The only thing that has come up so far in the ground is:
F-Rufa-After middle of March
P Aureosulcata April 19th
P Edulis April 27th-Right when I was getting worried about it.

Potted bamboos almost always shoot earlier so those don't count.

[Robbie78]

Yea the running Bamboo that is shooting outside for be is my newest one Qiongzhuea tumidissinoda which I have planted in a 4'x4' cedar planter and its shooting well, my wife thinks im crazy I go out to my yard everyday and inspect all the bamboo to see if theres any shoots!

[CadyG]

The Sasa veitchii is shooting, as are some of the Pleioblastus, but my big 'boos are playing it cool. The Phyllostachys nuda will likely send up a gazillion shoots this year as we had a mild winter, lots of snow cover and a warm and wet spring. Ka-BOING! Hoping the P. rubromarginata gets frisky too.