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·
    3 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·
      3 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·
        3 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.

  • Slatlun
    3·
    3 years ago

    Sorry, but that’s not bamboo. I’m not sure what it is though.

      • Slatlun
        3·
        3 years ago

        Other plants have the same kind of spreading roots. Mint for instance is notorious for spreading underground. Strawberries are similar but they spread by above ground runners. All having a root with no end can reliably tell you is that the plant is perennial (comes back every year) and that it will spread with the right growing conditions.

    • holdengreen@lemmygrad.mlOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      There are a bunch of the tiny ones like I dug up sprouting all in front of the bamboo wall. I got an 8k pic but I can’t/won’t post.

      • Slatlun
        1·
        3 years ago

        Everything in that photo is bamboo. You’re going to find that there is an underground root connecting them to the larger clump. That’s what you’re trying to get a good chunk of along with the sprout. If you have a pair of loppers or wire cutters they might help you get through the root if your shovel is dull. Keep the roots shaded and wet until you get them back in the ground. Looks like a good set up for success.