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Bamboo flowering...

Posted by Richard Boyd on June 4, 2008 at 4:41pm in Groundscare
Hi folksThought I'd pick peoples brains, so here's the problem.About 4 years ago I planted (what we are calling a bamboo wall) basically a 15M line of Phyllostachys Nigra. Which flowered/went to seed, as you can image I was slightly miffed when this happened and not knowing much about bamboo started to search the net to see what people recommended doing. I did not find much info out there so being a lazy bugger I left it. The next summer new leaf started to appear on the canes, so I left it thinking the plants were slowly recovering that autumn the same thing happened and fast forward a repeat the next year. The same thing is happening this year, lots of new leaf appearing. If the plants are going to recover then I'll keep them but if not I'll nuke the lot and start over.
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  • Richard Loader June 4, 2008 at 5:08pm
    Hi - have you seen any new culms?........or is the new growth just from the old canes? I would guess that if the growth is just from the existing canes then the prognosis is not good.
    DAS should have some info on this from the IPPS - some one in there will know what will happen.
    Good luck with it,
    Cheers
    Richard
  • Richard Boyd June 4, 2008 at 5:21pm
    Hi Richard

    All new leaf was on the old canes last year, I've had a quick look and cannot see any culms, however, it is a bit dense out there will have a closer inspection this evening. Thanks for the pointer.
  • Richard Boyd June 4, 2008 at 5:45pm
    Hi Kerrie

    Originally I was going to nuke the plants however, each years regrowth has been so prolific it really did look like the plants were reestablishing themselves, so I left them to see what would happen. I thought that once they had flowered the plants died off completely...obviously I was wrong.
  • Richard Boyd June 4, 2008 at 6:48pm
    ??? you've lost me ;)
  • Mike Stapleton January 12, 2009 at 1:02pm
    hi Richard
    Ive been looking though some old posts and found this one of your. If your still puzzled by your nigras contact Mike from jungle giants all he deals with is bamboo, if he doesnt know i dont know who will.
    Richard Boyd said:
    ??? you've lost me ;)
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    Phil Voice January 12, 2009 at 2:07pm
    Hi Mike

    Don't forget to add the web address for the Jungle Giants bamboo site.

    Best regards

    Phil
  • Richard Boyd January 12, 2009 at 2:16pm
    Mike Stapleton said:
    hi Richard
    Ive been looking though some old posts and found this one of your. If your still puzzled by your nigras contact Mike from jungle giants all he deals with is bamboo, if he doesnt know i dont know who will. Richard Boyd said:
    ??? you've lost me ;)

    Thanks Mike

    Richard's clue was unfortunately correct. I was surprised at the amount of new leaf, had never seen Bamboo flower before, until that point I just assumed it died off completely.

    Rich
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