On 6 Mar 2003 20:13:59 -0800, (Swede) wrote:

Hello,

Last year (March)I bought numerous bamboo plants from ty ty GA,
including a couple of , what seemed to be fairly old by the size of
the cut off stem, rhizomes of black bamboo.....that summer all the
other species (Alphonse Karr, and fishing pole bamboo) put out new
shoots but the black didn't....I assumed it probably would have
happened before I purchased them.......but here I am 1 year later and
no shoots....the bamboo stem seems to be doing fine...all leaves are
green etc etc..... can I assume that this plant still is doing OK
since the foilage that was present last year is still green and seems
to be doing OK.....when can I expect it to start producing shoots??

Oh, I 'm in Gainesville by the way...(north central florida)

Thanks!

You are a bit premature, but it sounds like all the plants made it
just fine through the winter. within six weeks (best guess) you should
be seeing the earth making star-shaped crackes with new shoots
emerging.