Tag: phyllostachys
Rhizomes of young Phyllostachys arcana seedlings
September 2, 2017
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, Phyllostachys arcana seedlings finally started growing rhizomes this summer. Due to hot and dry weather, many of my bamboos suffered from mild drought, but overall, they liked this summer. The vigorous seedling Extremely active and aggressive seedling which started running before it was 6 months old […]
Variegated Bamboo Seedlings – Summer 2017 Update
August 21, 2017
Keeping my 3 variegated Phyllostachys arcana ‘Luteosulcata’ seedlings inside during last winter, caused seedlings to decline. The older seedling that was once larger, hardly managed to survive the winter. At first, they seemed healthy, but they all got some kind of mold infection soon, which didn’t have any visible effect on their vigor, yet they […]
Moso Shooting 2017
March 25, 2017
Winter After unusually dry winter with almost no snow cover and two months of uninterrupted below freezing temperatures, spring came early. Due to lack of snow cover, soil got frozen down to 50 cm deep. That made me think that Bamboo shooting season will be postponed for quite some time. Fargesia Rufa started late and I […]
Culm color of variegated Luteosulcata seedling (1)
February 14, 2017
Phyllostachys arcana ‘Luteosulcata’ & yellow sulcus There was a debate recently on bambooweb forum regarding seeds sold as ‘Yellow groove’ seeds. It’s known that Phyllostachys aureosulcata (and other bamboos from that gang) flower from time to time, without resulting viable seed. Since it’s also not in gregarious flowering, there’s no way someone could get viable seeds of Yellow […]