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Flowering Bamboo Question
I've heard many times that once a grove of bamboo flowers it will die,
but I have a few questions: 1. Do all the Culms die, but the rhizomes shoot new culms up the following season? 2. if you cut off any flowers when they start, will that save the grove? 3. if you start off with, say, 4 or 5 different individual plants and 20 years later one flowers, will just that plant (and where ever it spread) die off or will all the original plants? Any other information or links to this topic would be appreciated. We don't have anything flowering now, but we'd hate to put in all the effort just to have all of a grove DIE one year. THANKS! James, Port Orchard, Washington, USA, Earth www.jameskelseystudios.com |
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I am not confident in my in my answer to this question ... not an expert nor
did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night! But ... I beleive that it is true that when bamboo flowers the whole plant dies after it has gone to seed. New shoots do not emerge from the rhizomes of the old plant. I do not know if cutting off the flowers saves the plant but I doubt it. Sounds too easy! Using multiple plants as a starting point does not solve the problem because all plants in the species will flower in the same year. This is one of the mysteries of bamboo. The flowering cycle can be very long (maybe several decades) but when it happens (it is not precisely predictable and not exactly a certain number of years) all of the plants in that species world wide flower and die. Planting a grove with more than one species (rather than just multiple plants) can prevent a total disaster. I have heard of people saving a flowering baboo by cutting up some rhizomes into small sections and replanting these, but this would not save the existing plant. Again ... I might be wrong on all of these points ... but it iswhat I have been told. PC "RainLover" wrote in message ... I've heard many times that once a grove of bamboo flowers it will die, but I have a few questions: 1. Do all the Culms die, but the rhizomes shoot new culms up the following season? 2. if you cut off any flowers when they start, will that save the grove? 3. if you start off with, say, 4 or 5 different individual plants and 20 years later one flowers, will just that plant (and where ever it spread) die off or will all the original plants? Any other information or links to this topic would be appreciated. We don't have anything flowering now, but we'd hate to put in all the effort just to have all of a grove DIE one year. THANKS! James, Port Orchard, Washington, USA, Earth www.jameskelseystudios.com |
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I am not confident in my in my answer to this question ... not an expert nor
did I stay in a Holiday Inn last night! But ... I beleive that it is true that when bamboo flowers the whole plant dies after it has gone to seed. New shoots do not emerge from the rhizomes of the old plant. I do not know if cutting off the flowers saves the plant but I doubt it. Sounds too easy! Using multiple plants as a starting point does not solve the problem because all plants in the species will flower in the same year. This is one of the mysteries of bamboo. The flowering cycle can be very long (maybe several decades) but when it happens (it is not precisely predictable and not exactly a certain number of years) all of the plants in that species world wide flower and die. Planting a grove with more than one species (rather than just multiple plants) can prevent a total disaster. I have heard of people saving a flowering baboo by cutting up some rhizomes into small sections and replanting these, but this would not save the existing plant. Again ... I might be wrong on all of these points ... but it iswhat I have been told. PC "RainLover" wrote in message ... I've heard many times that once a grove of bamboo flowers it will die, but I have a few questions: 1. Do all the Culms die, but the rhizomes shoot new culms up the following season? 2. if you cut off any flowers when they start, will that save the grove? 3. if you start off with, say, 4 or 5 different individual plants and 20 years later one flowers, will just that plant (and where ever it spread) die off or will all the original plants? Any other information or links to this topic would be appreciated. We don't have anything flowering now, but we'd hate to put in all the effort just to have all of a grove DIE one year. THANKS! James, Port Orchard, Washington, USA, Earth www.jameskelseystudios.com |
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