Dear Kinder,
Thanks so much for your detailed explanation and also on the sporadic flowering.
In my case each single culm is flowering, also new emerging shoots present flowers. As I noticed flowers, I decided to augment the water loading rate, what you also mentioned in your post. Increasing watering has a very positive effect on the small grove, that looks healthy. I keep on observing my grove; I will harvest the seeds and try to grow new P. propinqua plants out of them. I just still wondering; what would be the suitable time/season to harvest seeds and are there some special measures to take for growing seedlings?
Concerning fertilization; bamboo plants like all kinds of nitrogen-rich fertilizers (N-rich fertilizers), especially when N is in the form of ammonium-N (NH4-N). This latter N-form is rapidly used by the plants, through the symbiotic action of soil mycorrhiza and bamboo roots system in the presence of water.
A good source of plants nutrients is human urine. Urine is actually perfect fertilizer for bamboo plants. I explain: Human urine contains the essential NPK-nutrients and also traces nutrient elements most plants need to grow. When separately collected from faeces, urine is in addition sterile, free from pathogens. Urine can therefore be apply without any further treatment. The use of urine as fertilizer for bamboo plants was thoroughly developed as a Question Component of my doctoral research here in Hamburg. Of course and before setting up human urine as fertilizer for bamboo plantations, I firmly recommend that the ultimate goal of the plantation be biomass production in term of culms harvesting.
Thanks to you all for your contributions in this subject of flowering of P. Propinqua, although meanwhile the discussion has moved a bit into vegetative propagation. Is there suitable time to harvest bamboo seeds, since bamboo plants are evergreen? Are there some special measures to take for the growth of seedlings? Any experience with bamboo seeds and generated seedlings under cold climate is welcome.
Greetings from Hamburg
Ndzana
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De : "Txbooguru@aol.com [bamboo-plantations]" <bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com>
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Envoyé le : Mercredi 22 juillet 2015 19h51
Objet : Re: [bamboo-plantations] Flowering of Phyllostachys propinqua or any Bamboo
Intermittent flowering, such as you and others have mentioned, NDzana, is known as "sporadic" flowering, and in most such, cases the plants DO NOT die, AND the seeds are often sterile... (Which may be one reason Boo seeds have a 'history of poor germination.) Keep it well watered (not drowned), and fertilized== any good high nitrogen lawn fert. ).. i.e, plenty TLC.. (Tender Loving Care)..
If the complete plants flower, and drop seeds, this would be called "gregarious" flowering, and most often all plants of THAT clone, will die. BUT those seeds WILL be viable, which is how Bamboo has self propagated itself, for thousands of years..
Most, Bamboo seeds, also have a fairly short shelf life, even if refrigrated, so did't plan on holding any seed, for longer periods of time..
As a side note, these factors above, is why most offers of Bamboo seed off the internet, are bogus.. They will "sell you" whatever species, you request, but htat you get will most likely NOT be the speices, you wanted, and in a few cases, have not even been bamboo seeds at all. (Boo seeds look somewhat like wheat--don't know if this is 100% or not-- Maybe some of you REAL bamboo experts can advise me on that point.),
Peace, love and blessings to ll. Kinder C w/ Tx Bamboo Society..
In a message dated 7/22/2015 7:23:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time, bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com writes:
Thanks for your contribution.The bamboo flowering phenomenon is characterized by the production of seeds, followed by the drying of the whole grove.So if P. propinqua has flowered many times in Germany as you say, shall this really be called flowering? A subsequent question is: did these flowerings provoke the drying of respective stands? I will observe what happens for my stand.Greetings from HamburgNdzana--
Jesus is good! Jésus est bon!Dr.-Ing. Ndzana
Hamburg
Jesus ist gut! !Jesus es bueno!
Yesus aram pan'ha! Yesus ane pang!
Yesus ane nbeng! Yesus ane abeng!
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