I believe I've made a very hasty pruning decision and am hoping my bamboo recovers. I planted 10 five gallon clumps of Nigra Henon bamboo last year. We had a very harsh winter that we are now emerging from and I have a bunch of yellowing/ browning out of the leaves. I went through each culm and did some clean-up pruning. I did find sone culms that had died, which I cut back to the ground. My mistake it seems, is that I took the majority of the culms that had yellowed out leaves and cut them down to a level with no dead leaves and removed all of the branches- leaving a culm that may have once been 8-10 ft at only 4-6 feet. Ugh, wish I woul have read up a little more...

At this point, I have done a little light cultivating to the top of the soil, added 2-3 inches of compost and am ready to add some high nitrogen fertilizer. I NOW know that the culm cut down are stunted, but will my bamboo recover, with new chutes growing to the height intended for this bamboo type? Or is the entire plants potential compromised?