Dear Joe
How are you? Pls could you specify species, age of the plants before you put them on your yard and age of the plantation. Soil, rain and sun time are important also. If it is 3 years old plantation, you gona have a surpreise next year. Give them fertilizer and some water each 15 days. Clean around.
Hope you can send some photos.
All best regards
Guilherme Korte
São Paulo - SP
Brasil
De: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
Enviada: Sábado, 25 de Abril de 2015 22:04
Para: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
Assunto: [bamboo-plantations] successes and failures in South Austin
I have 9 unspecified textilis clumpers in my yard. All of the shoot in the fall, and freeze before the canes can mature properly, so I am quite disappointed in them. 3 of them are quite a bit hardier than the others and the frozen new canes will fully leaf out in the spring. 4 of them, about 50% of the canes leaf out in the spring... So, I end up with big bamboo bushes instead of the bamboo forest I desired.
I have 1 japanese timber bamboo that I started from a 6 inch root cutting, 3 years ago. It is from Missouri, so perhaps it will fair better when it gets big.
I have 2 alphonse karrs that do fine. One has particularly red/purple new canes in the fall.
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