Have been given a bamboo plant to put in our garden, but its been sawn
shorter to get it to fit into the car.

So the top of the stems are hollow which will allow rain water to sit and
stay in them. Will this cause the bamboo to rot ? And should they be sealed
with something please?

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:25:40 GMT, "torge conrad maguar"
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Have been given a bamboo plant to put in our garden, but its been sawn
shorter to get it to fit into the car.

So the top of the stems are hollow which will allow rain water to sit and
stay in them. Will this cause the bamboo to rot ? And should they be sealed
with something please?


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"torge conrad maguar" wrote:

Have been given a bamboo plant to put in our garden, but its been sawn
shorter to get it to fit into the car.

So the top of the stems are hollow which will allow rain water to sit and
stay in them. Will this cause the bamboo to rot ? And should they be sealed
with something please?

I wouldn't worry. The rain will fill the cane down to the next
inter-nodal divider - but probably no further. It might cause the
total loss of that cane, but hey, most of it has already been
cut off so that's no problem. From what you say the plant probably
looks a bit of a wreck at present.
Actually, most bamboos in Britain look pretty dreadful at present
due to lack of rain. They're just putting up this year's new
canes and putting on some leaves - so its not the best time to move
them. However, since you've
already done it, you should soon be seeing new canes. In autumn,
cut the sawn off canes to the ground and in a year or so it will
look fine.