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| first things first, from miami, so anything and everything grows here...
has some yellow ones as well. all clumper, no runners. i dug up a rhizome from the yellow one...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/2822133385_6b5076ba4a_m.jpg didnt have color to it yet.... now, where i think i had a problem, was that it didnt have roots yet. i divided it from the mother plant, nice clean cut, as close to the mother as possible. but im still nervous that i cut it to early.... i grabbed a pot full of the dirty around the shoot, and soaked it within 10 min. its been raining in miami lately too.... did i cut to early? whats the best time to divide a single rhizome? should i let mother nature do her job? should i divide a rhizome when roots have developed? thx |
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| Rhizome is root mass below the surface. What you did was to cut a shoot that was just starting and will now die. In order to get a viable start of a clumping bamboo, you will have to get a decent size chunk of rhizome and, preferably, at least one fully developed culm. Unfortunately, clumpers have dense, woody rhizome systems. The last time I divided one, it took 1/2 hour with me pounding on the foot rest of a sharp, steel spade with a sledge to force it through the roots like a chisel. Some clumpers are less difficult...but you get the idea. You're not just going to be able to take a small piece and call it good. Unless you can get viable root mass, you're not going to get anywhere. |
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