Friday, December 9th, 2011
This page is still being worked on. We will have this item available for Spring of 2012
Friday, December 9th, 2011
This page is still being worked on. We will have this item available for Spring of 2012
Friday, December 9th, 2011
This page is still being worked on. We will have this item available for Spring of 2012
Friday, December 9th, 2011
This page is still being worked on. We will have this item available for Spring of 2012
This page is still being worked on. We will have this item available for Spring of 2012
This page is still being worked on. We will have this item available for Spring of 2012
This page is still being worked on. We will have this item available for Spring of 2012
Here are some actual samples of what our product looks like. Keep in mind that the time of year makes a difference as to how a plant looks. On a one year old bamboo cutting it will look small starting the second year, until they begin to shoot out new culms. One year old cutting will fill out rapidly, doubling in height, when they begin to grow in the second year. Most all our #1 size plants are one year old cuttings.
Sample of a #1 (one gallon) size plant. This is not the actual
plant that you will recieve. These are one year old cuttings in
the picture. Giant timber will be larger, dwarf bamboo will be
smaller.
Sample of a #2 (two gallon) size plant.
This is not the actual plant that you will
Recieve. This is a two year old cutting entering
its third year of growth..
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Spring is the best time of year to start your fertilizer program for bamboo. After a long winter without feeding, your bamboo may look a little yellow. Or a lot!
Bamboo needs nitrogen almost year round . Some types are easy to keep green, such as the Phyllostachys ’Bissetii’ . Others, such as the Phyllostachys aurea “Golden bamboo’ , are not so easy. In most places of the country winter is too cool for roots to be growing and taking in food, so the plants are not able to replenish its nitrogen. Bamboo is still using up nitrogen, and depleating its stored food. This is what makes your bamboo looks so yellow by the spring.
Beginning in March as temperatures warm and roots begin to grow, we top dress with a 12-8-8 slow release fertilizer. This particular fertilizer is designed to give our plants a quick boost of green, just before spring shipping season. If you prefer to use organics, and as a home owner we would encourage you to, it would be a good time to apply manures, such as steer or chicken. There are some vegan fertilizers available from such companies as Down to Earth, in Eugene, Oregon. By May, after the propagation and shipping seasons have settled down a bit, we reapply a top dress. This time a much higher amount of nitrogen, usually around a 20-25 n. This would be a good time to re apply a manure. It is important to remember that if you are using manures, salt build up in your soil can contribute to yellowing of your bamboo. Chicken manure is high in salt and can build up in soil if there has not been sufficient rain to leach it out. It is a great source of nitrogen, but it is a good idea to limit the amount by alternating with another fertilizer, such as steer manure. In the fall we re-apply with the 12-8-8, again. Here in Oregon bamboo roots are actively growing in September and October. Applying more fertilizer in the fall as the roots are going through a growth period is a great time to give your plants a supply of food and nitrogen to help them through the dormant winter months. One word of caution: do not use fast acting lawn fertilizer on bamboo. It can cause them to burn, especially the new shoots or younger plants. Happy gardening!!
The first day of spring is still two months away but it seems like it is already here! We are having a long stretch of spring like weather here, 55 °F and sunny almost every day for two weeks.
Late winter is a good time to divide up any containers of bamboo that you may have.
The tools that you will need to do this with are very simple, a saw, either a hand saw or a reciprocal saw, and a pair of pruners. We use a cordless reciprocal saw here to cut through the bamboos that are grown in containers. It is much faster, taking only 5 to 10 seconds for an experienced employee to half or quarter a five gallon size plant. But a hand saw will work fine if you have just a few plants to divide. Take the plant you want to divide out of the pot. You may have to cut it out of the pot if it is root bound. The best plants to divide are the root bound ones. Younger plants tend not to have enough material to divide. A root bound bamboo will hold its roots together much easier as your saw is cutting away at the soil and root mass.
Generally you can find a natural line through a plant to make a cut. Don’t worry about losing some culms as you are cutting. It is not unusual to cut off some of the culms as you cut. It is more important to keep the rhizomes intact than the culms. Try not to damage the culm buds that are on a rhizome as you are cutting. They will be next seasons new culms. Some times it is necessary to cut off the terminal end of a rhizome. After a rhizome has stopped growing for the season, if the tip has not shot up out of the ground it will not do so next year either.
You may see some of your leaves starting to curl up on you after you have divided your plant. It is OK to remove some of your culm tops. Cutting back a culm will help preserve the plant.
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