These are the bamboos I dug up from the neighborhood. I planted them in a pot. And I hope to get some affordable wood stock from these.

Also yesterday when me and dad were hiking I took a branch of manzanita which I prepared by shaving and planting with rooting hormone and fertilizer. If that goes well I will share.

  • Joe BidetA
    3•2 years ago

    doesnt look like bamboo at all. bamboo have these rather long leaves, wrapped around the stem when they are young. and no root but a (sometimes hyper-invasive) rhyzome. so i think it’s not even by picking a shoot that you grow bamboo, but by getting a piece of rhyzome…

    • @holdengreen@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2•2 years ago

      how do I get rhyzome? There were larger shoots coming out of the ground but there was not way I could get those.

      These ones in the picture I did get have similar leaves to the big bamboo growing by it.

      Is it possible this is some different type of bamboo? It doesn’t look exactly like bamboo but I’ll see if it grows into anything interesting I guess.

      • @Slatlun
        3•2 years ago

        Bamboo always has leaf veins that run parallel to each other like grass. The plant in the picture has branching leaf veins, so I knew it couldn’t be bamboo.

        The rhyzomes will be spreading underground and sending up shoots that eventually look just like the parent plant. Picking a shoot just means getting a sprouting rhyzome. You want as much of the rhyzome as possible if you want to just transplant it (rather than more advanced propagation techniques) Best way to get them is to find someone who doesn’t want some or all of their bamboo and dig it up. It is tough cutting through the rhysomes especially any that would give you wood. An old saw can work once you’ve cleared away the dirt with a shovel.