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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tous!bilver!jwt!hrick
- From: bbs-hrick@jwt.UUCP (Rick Harrison)
- Subject: propagating bamboo
- Reply-To: bbs-hrick@jwt.UUCP
- Organization: The Matrix
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:05:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <0ZigwB1w164w@jwt.UUCP>
- Sender: bbs@jwt.UUCP
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- There is a small stand of very large bamboo plants on a vacant lot
- in my neighborhood. (I'm in the Orlando area.) I'd like to get
- a specimen of this species in my garden. Short of renting a
- steam-shovel, how can I do it? They are growing in a very dense
- clump and it doesn't look like it would be practical to dig up
- part of the colony.
-
- I grow reeds (Arundo donax) and sometimes use dried pieces of reed
- to stake up tomato plants. Sometimes the dead-looking pieces of
- reed-stem will take root and come back to life. I wonder if I
- can do something like this with the bamboo.
-
- Also, there are small side-shoots coming off the sides of the
- big bamboo stems. I wonder if it is possible to saw off one of
- these side-shoots, dust it with rooting hormone and plant it?
- Anyone have any experience with bamboo?
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