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Heard rumors that when you have multiple types of bamboo on a property
they at some point will get stressed out and start seeding.

Well I have 6 to 10 plants in seed, boy o boy guess it not a rumor......
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downhill wrote:
Heard rumors that when you have multiple types of bamboo on a property
they at some point will get stressed out and start seeding.

Well I have 6 to 10 plants in seed, boy o boy guess it not a rumor......

Or it's 2010
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downhill wrote:
Heard rumors that when you have multiple types of bamboo on a property
they at some point will get stressed out and start seeding.

Well I have 6 to 10 plants in seed, boy o boy guess it not a rumor......


I have never heard that about more than one type together causing
stress and making them go to seed, but I have only been growing
bamboo since last July.

From what I heard bamboo all over the world can go to seed and
die around the same time every forty eight to fifty years and
I hope it's not time for it to do that again. My one bamboo
is doing great right now and I would hate for it to seed and die.
Every day I can see it has grown a lot from the previous day and
it makes me happy to think in a few years it could cover a large
area.

I have always been interested in bamboo but only got serious
about it last summer.

There was a PBS show about Bamboo, somewhere in India (I think)
that was interesting about how it died every forty eight to fifty
years and how rat populations spiked from eating bamboo seeds.
It showed how the roots grow and hold soil together. It was
interesting, maybe you've seen it or can find it somewhere.

Good Luck
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downhill wrote:
Heard rumors that when you have multiple types of bamboo on a property
they at some point will get stressed out and start seeding.

Well I have 6 to 10 plants in seed, boy o boy guess it not a rumor......


I have never heard that about more than one type together causing
stress and making them go to seed, but I have only been growing
bamboo since last July.

From what I heard bamboo all over the world can go to seed and
die around the same time every forty eight to fifty years and
I hope it's not time for it to do that again. My one bamboo
is doing great right now and I would hate for it to seed and die.
Every day I can see it has grown a lot from the previous day and
it makes me happy to think in a few years it could cover a large
area.

I have always been interested in bamboo but only got serious
about it last summer.

There was a PBS show about Bamboo, somewhere in India (I think)
that was interesting about how it died every forty eight to fifty
years and how rat populations spiked from eating bamboo seeds.
It showed how the roots grow and hold soil together. It was
interesting, maybe you've seen it or can find it somewhere.

Good Luck
Mysterious Traveler


There are gardens, botanical or otherwise .which include many different
kinds of bamboo and I have never heard of them seeding all at once.


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I have never heard that about more than one type together causing
stress and making them go to seed, but I have only been growing
bamboo since last July.

From what I heard bamboo all over the world can go to seed and
die around the same time every forty eight to fifty years and
I hope it's not time for it to do that again.
Some, not all, species of bamboo display gregarious flowering. Others flower sporadically, but still at long intervals. A gregarious flowering can spread over several years, for example in the case of the recent gregarious flowering of Fargesia nitida, it didn't apply to all cultivars and has stretched over at least 5 years. The flowering interval of bamboos varies from species to species, and some types of bamboo have never been observed to flower even though we have had them under observation for over 100 years in some such cases. The "48-50" number you quote probably applies to that specific species in NE India that results in rodent plagues, and I would tend to suspect the number is spuriously precise: we probably only have a handful of observations. For the types generally in cultivation in cooler countries, my guess is that 50 years would be on the low side.

Stress can result in flowering of specific bamboo plants, or parts of specific plants, but this does not trigger a gregarious flowering. Merely being in the same garden as other bamboo does not result in stress, otherwise the botanical collections would be stuffed. But I can imagine growing bamboos very close to each other so they compete for water and nutrients could be stressful.


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On Apr 23, 1:20*pm, downhill wrote:
Heard rumors that when you have multiple types of bamboo on a property
they at some point will get stressed out and start seeding.

Well I have 6 to 10 plants in seed, boy o boy guess it not a rumor......


You deliberately create mixed stands so that when one species flowers
you are not left denuded.
No evidence supports your rumor here.
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echinosum wrote:
Mysterious Traveler;884862 Wrote:
I have never heard that about more than one type together causing
stress and making them go to seed, but I have only been growing
bamboo since last July.

From what I heard bamboo all over the world can go to seed and
die around the same time every forty eight to fifty years and
I hope it's not time for it to do that again.

Some, not all, species of bamboo display gregarious flowering. Others
flower sporadically, but still at long intervals. A gregarious
flowering can spread over several years, for example in the case of the
recent gregarious flowering of Fargesia nitida, it didn't apply to all
cultivars and has stretched over at least 5 years. The flowering
interval of bamboos varies from species to species, and some types of
bamboo have never been observed to flower even though we have had them
under observation for over 100 years in some such cases. The "48-50"
number you quote probably applies to that specific species in NE India
that results in rodent plagues, and I would tend to suspect the number
is spuriously precise: we probably only have a handful of observations.
For the types generally in cultivation in cooler countries, my guess is
that 50 years would be on the low side.

Stress can result in flowering of specific bamboo plants, or parts of
specific plants, but this does not trigger a gregarious flowering.
Merely being in the same garden as other bamboo does not result in
stress, otherwise the botanical collections would be stuffed. But I can
imagine growing bamboos very close to each other so they compete for
water and nutrients could be stressful.


Been playing with bamboo about 20 years at one point had over 100
species of bamboo here, now down to about 60 some odd types.
Many years ago when I actually cared about bamboo I followed up on some
people that in the past had collections of bamboo on small properties
and there multiple species collection had been reduced to a few types.

Has any one seen a bamboo tissue culture plant every reach the size
listed in a species guide?
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the rumor about the bamboo tree will always be a rumor.. we have bamboo trees around our surrounding and it gives us fresh air .. plants are source of oxygen so we are happy that bamboo trees helps giving off oxygen ..
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