Moving Bamboo
 

W just recently sold our house in Portland OR. Although everyone told
us we should remove the bamboo grove I have ben tending in the back
yard prior to putting the house on the market because it would scare
prospective buyers off, we did not, and it became one of the house's
hottest selling points. I put a clause in the contract that I could
claim a couple of samples from the bamboo grove for our new place and a
couple of weeks ago, we went over and dug some up. Due to some nice new
rhizomes in a slightly rasied area and some nice soft soil, we got a
nice stand of Phyllostachys aurea, about an inch thick and several
mature stalks of Phyllostachys dulcis about two inches thick, along
with sizable root balls. We also ended up taking two large and
seemingly vibrant root balls of the dulcis with no stalks.
Originally we planned on cutting the plants back to about eight feet
for transport, but at the last moment we decided to throw caution to
the winds and take the plants in their entirity. The trip lasted about
ten minutes and the plants were back in the ground within an hour.

Now comes the question. Everyday the leaves curl up like the plant is
going to die, and every night they open back up again. Ground is moist,
drainage is good. What are my chances that these plants will establish
and what can I do to help them along? Lastly will the extensive
rhizomes planted with no visible shoots have any chance of survival?

Advice is welcome.

Eliot

Moving Bamboo
 

ems wrote:

Now comes the question. Everyday the leaves curl up like the plant is
going to die, and every night they open back up again. Ground is moist,
drainage is good. What are my chances that these plants will establish
and what can I do to help them along? Lastly will the extensive
rhizomes planted with no visible shoots have any chance of survival?

Advice is welcome.

Eliot

I normally remove about half of the branches so the roots do not have
to
support as many leaves. You could also strip some of the leaves off.

Bill

Moving Bamboo
 

I've done something similar with the same initial results. I did cut back
all but the last 2' or so of each plant. After about three weeks I got new
leaf growth and a few weeks later a couple of new shoots.

Also, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens did the same thing at their yearly plant
sale, keeping the dug-out bamboo rhizomes in a plastic bag and cutting back
the stalks. These plants stayed out of the ground for days before the
buyers replanted. Their advice -- don't let the plants dry out, but without
keeping the ground soggy. The above-ground stalks won't live, but the
following year you'll get new shoots and the clump will double in size each
year thereafter. The existing stalks -- dead above ground -- are
essentially markers so that you know where the bamboo was planted, until new
shoots occur.

All of the plants we got from KBG have done remarkably well, and after five
years we have groves of numerous types.

As long as you don't let the transplanted bamboo dry out, you should see new
leaf growth in a few weeks, and a few new shoots next year. In three years
you should have a fully established grove. Regards --

"ems" wrote in message
. ..
W just recently sold our house in Portland OR. Although everyone told
us we should remove the bamboo grove I have ben tending in the back
yard prior to putting the house on the market because it would scare
prospective buyers off, we did not, and it became one of the house's
hottest selling points. I put a clause in the contract that I could
claim a couple of samples from the bamboo grove for our new place and a
couple of weeks ago, we went over and dug some up. Due to some nice new
rhizomes in a slightly rasied area and some nice soft soil, we got a
nice stand of Phyllostachys aurea, about an inch thick and several
mature stalks of Phyllostachys dulcis about two inches thick, along
with sizable root balls. We also ended up taking two large and
seemingly vibrant root balls of the dulcis with no stalks.
Originally we planned on cutting the plants back to about eight feet
for transport, but at the last moment we decided to throw caution to
the winds and take the plants in their entirity. The trip lasted about
ten minutes and the plants were back in the ground within an hour.

Now comes the question. Everyday the leaves curl up like the plant is
going to die, and every night they open back up again. Ground is moist,
drainage is good. What are my chances that these plants will establish
and what can I do to help them along? Lastly will the extensive
rhizomes planted with no visible shoots have any chance of survival?

Advice is welcome.

Eliot

Moving Bamboo
 

That means:

Cut back to 2-3 feet. This will help them establish. Those without clums
have good chances too. :)

Tihomir

"JimR" wrote in message
k.net...
I've done something similar with the same initial results. I did cut back
all but the last 2' or so of each plant. After about three weeks I got
new leaf growth and a few weeks later a couple of new shoots.

Also, Kanapaha Botanical Gardens did the same thing at their yearly plant
sale, keeping the dug-out bamboo rhizomes in a plastic bag and cutting
back the stalks. These plants stayed out of the ground for days before
the buyers replanted. Their advice -- don't let the plants dry out, but
without keeping the ground soggy. The above-ground stalks won't live, but
the following year you'll get new shoots and the clump will double in size
each year thereafter. The existing stalks -- dead above ground -- are
essentially markers so that you know where the bamboo was planted, until
new shoots occur.

All of the plants we got from KBG have done remarkably well, and after
five years we have groves of numerous types.

As long as you don't let the transplanted bamboo dry out, you should see
new leaf growth in a few weeks, and a few new shoots next year. In three
years you should have a fully established grove. Regards --

"ems" wrote in message
. ..
W just recently sold our house in Portland OR. Although everyone told
us we should remove the bamboo grove I have ben tending in the back
yard prior to putting the house on the market because it would scare
prospective buyers off, we did not, and it became one of the house's
hottest selling points. I put a clause in the contract that I could
claim a couple of samples from the bamboo grove for our new place and a
couple of weeks ago, we went over and dug some up. Due to some nice new
rhizomes in a slightly rasied area and some nice soft soil, we got a
nice stand of Phyllostachys aurea, about an inch thick and several
mature stalks of Phyllostachys dulcis about two inches thick, along
with sizable root balls. We also ended up taking two large and
seemingly vibrant root balls of the dulcis with no stalks.
Originally we planned on cutting the plants back to about eight feet
for transport, but at the last moment we decided to throw caution to
the winds and take the plants in their entirity. The trip lasted about
ten minutes and the plants were back in the ground within an hour.

Now comes the question. Everyday the leaves curl up like the plant is
going to die, and every night they open back up again. Ground is moist,
drainage is good. What are my chances that these plants will establish
and what can I do to help them along? Lastly will the extensive
rhizomes planted with no visible shoots have any chance of survival?

Advice is welcome.

Eliot

Moving Bamboo
 

My bamboo has died after moving it will it grow back?
"ems" wrote in message
. ..
W just recently sold our house in Portland OR. Although everyone told
us we should remove the bamboo grove I have ben tending in the back
yard prior to putting the house on the market because it would scare
prospective buyers off, we did not, and it became one of the house's
hottest selling points. I put a clause in the contract that I could
claim a couple of samples from the bamboo grove for our new place and a
couple of weeks ago, we went over and dug some up. Due to some nice new
rhizomes in a slightly rasied area and some nice soft soil, we got a
nice stand of Phyllostachys aurea, about an inch thick and several
mature stalks of Phyllostachys dulcis about two inches thick, along
with sizable root balls. We also ended up taking two large and
seemingly vibrant root balls of the dulcis with no stalks.
Originally we planned on cutting the plants back to about eight feet
for transport, but at the last moment we decided to throw caution to
the winds and take the plants in their entirity. The trip lasted about
ten minutes and the plants were back in the ground within an hour.

Now comes the question. Everyday the leaves curl up like the plant is
going to die, and every night they open back up again. Ground is moist,
drainage is good. What are my chances that these plants will establish
and what can I do to help them along? Lastly will the extensive
rhizomes planted with no visible shoots have any chance of survival?

Advice is welcome.

Eliot

Moving Bamboo
 

Claire Burton wrote:
My bamboo has died after moving it will it grow back?
"ems" wrote in message
. ..
W just recently sold our house in Portland OR. Although
everyone
told us we should remove the bamboo grove I have ben tending
in
the back yard prior to putting the house on the market
because it
would scare prospective buyers off, we did not, and it became
one
of the house's hottest selling points. I put a clause in the
contract that I could claim a couple of samples from the
bamboo
grove for our new place and a couple of weeks ago, we went
over
and dug some up. Due to some nice new rhizomes in a slightly
rasied area and some nice soft soil, we got a nice stand of
Phyllostachys aurea, about an inch thick and several mature
stalks of Phyllostachys dulcis about two inches thick, along
with
sizable root balls. We also ended up taking two large and
seemingly vibrant root balls of the dulcis with no stalks.
Originally we planned on cutting the plants back to about
eight
feet for transport, but at the last moment we decided to
throw
caution to the winds and take the plants in their entirity.
The
trip lasted about ten minutes and the plants were back in the
ground within an hour. Now comes the question. Everyday the
leaves curl up like the
plant is going to die, and every night they open back up
again.
Ground is moist, drainage is good. What are my chances that
these
plants will establish and what can I do to help them along?
Lastly will the extensive rhizomes planted with no visible
shoots
have any chance of survival? Advice is welcome.

Eliot

If you die will you come back?

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

Moving Bamboo
 

"Claire Burton" wrote in message
...
My bamboo has died after moving it will it grow back?

I'm assuming from your post that the above-ground part looks dead. That's
not uncommon when moving bamboo. If you've kept the rhizome from drying out
it may still be very alive.

If the underground rhizome is alive it may continue growing, and you won't
know for sure for a year or more. It may take a year before it presents new
shoots. From U of Fl: "The first year it sleeps; the second year it creeps,
the third year it leaps."

JimR's rule of life #7: Never bet against bamboo growing.

Good luck and regards --

Moving Bamboo
 

In article ZF8af.880$zU2.625@trnddc07, Travis
wrote:

Claire Burton wrote:
My bamboo has died after moving it will it grow back?
SNIP

If you die will you come back?

It's odd how Travis always seems to have something nasty,
condescending, misguided, or rude to say.

I gave a friend some small rhizomes a few months ago in several pots.
They all put up new shoots immediately and then died back. Ideally she
should have put them in the ground immediately, but circumstances did
not allow for that. My advice for her was to take care of them over the
Winter and see what happens in the Spring.

My, obviously amature, advice for you if your bamboo is in the ground,
would be to mulch well for winter protection, fertilize lightly with a
high nitrogen fertilizer wait and see.

Good luck!

EMS

Moving Bamboo
 

About Travis:

He is obviously not a very nice or pleasant person, but that's him. Some
people are just so. Unfortunately.
Being a bamboo aficionado gives no guaranties on a persons character. ;)

"ems" wrote in message
. ..
In article ZF8af.880$zU2.625@trnddc07, Travis
wrote:

Claire Burton wrote:
My bamboo has died after moving it will it grow back?
SNIP

If you die will you come back?

It's odd how Travis always seems to have something nasty,
condescending, misguided, or rude to say.

I gave a friend some small rhizomes a few months ago in several pots.
They all put up new shoots immediately and then died back. Ideally she
should have put them in the ground immediately, but circumstances did
not allow for that. My advice for her was to take care of them over the
Winter and see what happens in the Spring.

My, obviously amature, advice for you if your bamboo is in the ground,
would be to mulch well for winter protection, fertilize lightly with a
high nitrogen fertilizer wait and see.

Good luck!

EMS

Moving Bamboo
 

Hi,
I would not worry about your bamboe. A Phyllostachys is virtual
imposible to kill. The curling of the leaves is to prevent to much
evaporation because it has to develop new roots. Beware of its
tendance to "escape" in a garden. Remember that the first plants to
appear in Japan after the atomic bombs were bamboes. Excuse my English,
but i'm Flemish.