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--
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