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trading MOSO seeds with other bamboo rhizomes......
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I have a large quantity of fresh MOSO seeds , and I want to trade some of them with other cold resistant phyllostachys or other bamboo species, Please mail me! Regards , P.G |
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trading MOSO seeds with other bamboo rhizomes......
puiu wrote:
Hi, I have a large quantity of fresh MOSO seeds , and I want to trade some of them with other cold resistant phyllostachys or other bamboo species, Please mail me! Regards , P.G Something smells. |
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trading MOSO seeds with other bamboo rhizomes......
It's this for real? I mean, MOSO seeds?
Does this specie of bamboo gives seeds? Thanks Pedro "puiu" wrote in message om... Hi, I have a large quantity of fresh MOSO seeds , and I want to trade some of them with other cold resistant phyllostachys or other bamboo species, Please mail me! Regards , P.G |
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trading MOSO seeds with other bamboo rhizomes......
"Pedro" wrote:
It's this for real? I mean, MOSO seeds? Does this specie of bamboo gives seeds? It does. I know that some moso bloomed a few years ago and I bought several seedlings, one of which is gradually growing into a grove. I suppose it's possible that other plants bloomed more recently and that seeds could be available. I don't know any details. Seed-grown plants could have slightly different characteristics than their parent(s), so maybe we'll see some cultivars with thicker culms or other interesting properties. I don't know anything about this particular offer of seeds. As far as I know, bamboo seeds do not keep well. Bamboos usually die after flowering, though a few species flower regularly with no apparent ill effects. Mark., I hope that there are some experts who can tell us more about these things here |
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trading MOSO seeds with other bamboo rhizomes......
puiu wrote:
Hi, I have a large quantity of fresh MOSO seeds , and I want to trade some of them with other cold resistant phyllostachys or other bamboo species, Please mail me! Regards , P.G puiu, You don't say where you are located so it makes it difficult for anyone to know if they will be able to trade plants for your seeds. If you are not in the USA, then no-one in the USA will be able to (easily) trade with you as bamboo and bamboo seeds must be brought in to this country through a quarantine greenhouse and spend a year in the greenhouse with inspections by our federal Ag department to make sure it does not bring any diseases with it into this country. Being a grass, it might harbor a disease that could spread to other grasses like corn, wheat, oats, etc. and ruin a multi-billion dollar crop. Thus the import restrictions. There are only about 5 or 6 quarantine greenhouses in the USA that can legally import bamboo seed and plants, because they have applied for and been granted a permit from the USDA. If one bamboo in a quarantine greenhouse is found to be diseased, then the entire contents of the greenhouse are destroyed! This is in distinct contrast to Europe where there are no restrictions on bamboo imports, and no serious consequences coming from many years of imports from all over the world. As for the seeding behavior of Moso (Phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens - aka P. edulis), seed is generally available from somewhere in the world on a regular basis. It is one of the few (or maybe only) bamboo where this is the case. Apparently there are a lot of clones and one clone or another is likely to be setting seed every year. Growing bamboo from seeds is fun if you can get seeds. And the possibility of a new cultivar is always intriguing, although the chances of finding one worth having are very small. Most bamboo seed do have a short shelf life, in the range of a few months to perhaps a year. I think Moso seed viability is probably in this range. Regards, Bob Johannessen |
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