Moso sending up shoots
Mark. Gooley wrote:
My seedling moso, now perhaps 4 or 5 years old, is sending up shoots (first noticed them a few days ago). So far the tallest are under three feet tall, and the thickest definitely under two inches across; that's thicker than I've seen before from this seedling, but still disappointingly thin. The whole thing, new shoots and all, is perhaps fifteen feet across, and today I scattered about thirty pounds of cheap lawn fertilizer (no encapsulated nitrogen, no time-release) over and around it, and gave it some water. A few near-freezing dawns seem not to have damaged the shoots. I hope that we're through with freezes until next winter, but there's no guarantee of that here. This is about the usual time for it to sprout, or maybe a little late. I've had it shoot earlier and seen frost wipe out the first crop of shoots; it obligingly sent up more, mostly thinner than the first. I'm in north Florida, about the center of the peninsula where it starts to become a peninsula, east of Gainesville, zone 8b. Anyone else's moso beginning to send up shoots? Mark., no squirrels yet Mark, I'm in the San Francisco Bay area and my moso have been putting up new shoots for at least two weeks now. The folks out here say that moso needs a lot of water during the shooting season in order to size up more quickly but they also say it can take up to ten or twelve years to reach large size (probably around 4" diameter). Regards, Bob Johannessen |
Moso sending up shoots
Mark. Gooley wrote:
My seedling moso, now perhaps 4 or 5 years old, is sending up shoots (first noticed them a few days ago). So far the tallest are under three feet tall, and the thickest definitely under two inches across; that's thicker than I've seen before from this seedling, but still disappointingly thin. The whole thing, new shoots and all, is perhaps fifteen feet across, and today I scattered about thirty pounds of cheap lawn fertilizer (no encapsulated nitrogen, no time-release) over and around it, and gave it some water. A few near-freezing dawns seem not to have damaged the shoots. I hope that we're through with freezes until next winter, but there's no guarantee of that here. This is about the usual time for it to sprout, or maybe a little late. I've had it shoot earlier and seen frost wipe out the first crop of shoots; it obligingly sent up more, mostly thinner than the first. I'm in north Florida, about the center of the peninsula where it starts to become a peninsula, east of Gainesville, zone 8b. Anyone else's moso beginning to send up shoots? Mark., no squirrels yet Mark, I'm in the San Francisco Bay area and my moso have been putting up new shoots for at least two weeks now. The folks out here say that moso needs a lot of water during the shooting season in order to size up more quickly but they also say it can take up to ten or twelve years to reach large size (probably around 4" diameter). Regards, Bob Johannessen |
Moso sending up shoots
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:15:59 +0000, Bob Johannessen wrote:
Mark. Gooley wrote: My seedling moso, now perhaps 4 or 5 years old, is sending up shoots (first noticed them a few days ago). So far the tallest are under three feet tall, and the thickest definitely under two inches across; that's thicker than I've seen before from this seedling, but still disappointingly thin. The whole thing, new shoots and all, is perhaps fifteen feet across, and today I scattered about thirty pounds of cheap lawn fertilizer (no encapsulated nitrogen, no time-release) over and around it, and gave it some water. A few near-freezing dawns seem not to have damaged the shoots. I hope that we're through with freezes until next winter, but there's no guarantee of that here. This is about the usual time for it to sprout, or maybe a little late. I've had it shoot earlier and seen frost wipe out the first crop of shoots; it obligingly sent up more, mostly thinner than the first. I'm in north Florida, about the center of the peninsula where it starts to become a peninsula, east of Gainesville, zone 8b. Anyone else's moso beginning to send up shoots? Mark., no squirrels yet Mark, I'm in the San Francisco Bay area and my moso have been putting up new shoots for at least two weeks now. The folks out here say that moso needs a lot of water during the shooting season in order to size up more quickly but they also say it can take up to ten or twelve years to reach large size (probably around 4" diameter). Regards, Bob Johannessen I'm in S.E. Louisiana and have been shooting since the 3/11. This is the 2nd year - one grew 5" in 8 hrs. then 10 " in 18 hrs. Thanks for the tip on watering....luckily its raining today. Chris |
Moso sending up shoots
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:15:59 +0000, Bob Johannessen wrote:
Mark. Gooley wrote: My seedling moso, now perhaps 4 or 5 years old, is sending up shoots (first noticed them a few days ago). So far the tallest are under three feet tall, and the thickest definitely under two inches across; that's thicker than I've seen before from this seedling, but still disappointingly thin. The whole thing, new shoots and all, is perhaps fifteen feet across, and today I scattered about thirty pounds of cheap lawn fertilizer (no encapsulated nitrogen, no time-release) over and around it, and gave it some water. A few near-freezing dawns seem not to have damaged the shoots. I hope that we're through with freezes until next winter, but there's no guarantee of that here. This is about the usual time for it to sprout, or maybe a little late. I've had it shoot earlier and seen frost wipe out the first crop of shoots; it obligingly sent up more, mostly thinner than the first. I'm in north Florida, about the center of the peninsula where it starts to become a peninsula, east of Gainesville, zone 8b. Anyone else's moso beginning to send up shoots? Mark., no squirrels yet Mark, I'm in the San Francisco Bay area and my moso have been putting up new shoots for at least two weeks now. The folks out here say that moso needs a lot of water during the shooting season in order to size up more quickly but they also say it can take up to ten or twelve years to reach large size (probably around 4" diameter). Regards, Bob Johannessen I'm in S.E. Louisiana and have been shooting since the 3/11. This is the 2nd year - one grew 5" in 8 hrs. then 10 " in 18 hrs. Thanks for the tip on watering....luckily its raining today. Chris |
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