There is still about 6 months of growing before spring starts. One is going from 3 shoots to 6 the other is going from 2 to 4. The 2 oldest plants are producing new shoots right now. I'm not sure if I want to plant the Moso next spring or wait another year. I'm looking outside now, and its 32 degrees with flurries. I think last years barely hanging on culms was a result of planting them in mid October. I have them all mulched in with about 4-6 inches of cut grass right now. When I transplanted all of that yellow-groove over the summer, just about every plant replaced 60% of its leaves noticeable days after planting. I'm guessing I didn't note that correctly. Amazing plant, highly reccomend if you can plant some from seeds. It's really amazing how different it even since the pot transplant. For the long haul, this one is going to be a house plant. I'm not going to like doing it, because it's been spoiled with the mild temperatures and window sun for so long, but I'd like to at least make it a bit hardy. I might place this outside for the summer. I just noticed yesterday, but I think the shoot started 2 weeks ago.Ġ1 - The tallest one in the double planting pot is now over 3 feet tall. This is the first time any new shoot has had a branch since then, and it has two of them. When the seedlings were younger, I had a case where once small shoot had one small branch. The entire transplant thread can be found here, however, here are a couple pictures.Ģ6 - Yesterday I noticed for the first time that one of my new shoots has 2 side branches. I'm sure I'll be seperating both of them in 12 months. They were drying out faster and faster, so I knew they needed more dirt to hold more water. My first pictures, back in May of 2006, that is it as a baby.Ģ4 - I transplanted my two largest edulis (Moso) into one large pot. This shows early root development.Ģ6 - Just a glancing view out the moso window.ġ6 - What a wonderful 8 months it's been. The leaves were still green in color, but it's definatly dead. One big ball of roots.Ġ1 - I pulled the dead Moso out today. They all appear to be coming from the same spot.Ī close up of the shoot base. Picture showing the striping on the leaves. As you can tell, that one on the left is probably done. Here are the plants against their window showing the condensation. The two largest leaves are what have lightened. They are shooing at a 45 degree angle too.įirst we will start with that box. On the new shoots, they all appear to be coming from almost a root ball in the middle of the plant. ![]() I'll photograph it and post when I pull it out. I've finally rulled the other one dead, so I will be replacing it soon with something else. The blue plastic pot has 3 new shoots, the glazed pot has two. Amazing.Ģ4 - For the past 7-10 days, the two moso that are on a South facing window are shooting again. I myself have never noticed a plant before bamboo changing it's leaves for the lighting conditions. ![]() ![]() I'm not sure if this is because it's stressed or it's lightening it's leaves for the reduced sunlight. The leaves since have been a light green color compared the the dark green leaves from outside. They went from full sun most of the day to a window on the North East side of the house. I don't know where I'm putting it in the winter time.Ģ2 - I moved the large foam container inside (And all of the other moso) about 2 weeks ago. ![]() Here is a foam cooler made into a planter with 6 different moso plantings in it. Soon I'll have enough that I can start giving them to people to try out.ġ9 - These are going in pots very soon as you can see some of them are suffering from the heat and lack of soil. I left the 2 least active seeds in the tray.Ġ9 - Pictures of 4 of my 5 total Moso sprouts (#6 is at my moms).ġ4 - Lots of the Sand shoots are coming up in the humidity dome. I planted the 2 rooted seeds in with the two ceramic plantings. I planted 2 in ceramic pots with drainage. I planted one the the shoots into a plastic pot with no drainage. I dug up the other 4, 2 of them had rooted, one looked like it was just about to grow a root (little bubble structure on the large end of the seed), and the other looked plain. They are about 2 inches high I would estimate.Ġ8 - Went thorugh my 8 moso seeds. The largest two have sprouted a single leaf. Sprout 1 is 5/8" tall.Ġ6 - Got home at 2AM. It was only 1/16th of an inch above the sand, but it's on it's way.ģ1 - #3 of 8 sprouts. Update: 20 minutes later I found that a second one was also coming up. And for anyone who is interested in how to, I used play sand. I know this is Moso for sure, because I planted these in clean sand. My Moso seeds, exactly 20 days after planting, have finally popped up two sprouted. Finally, after months of interest, I finally have a third species of bamboo.
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