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george_in_hawaii has contributed to 2 posts out of 2548 total posts
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General Tropical plant growing Tips »
Bamboo Jul 21, 2006 01:47 PM
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thank you both nutzaboutplants and cngodles for your replies. helpful stuff. i do have one question for heidi and one for cngodles. heidi... you say to keep the seeds around 85 degrees. how do you do that? i've read people use plastic bags with an ordinary light bulb... any specifics appreciated. (okay, one more for heidi  ... you go directly from the 24 hour soak to the fiber?). cngodles... the one academic paper i read (by the indian fellow) concluded that sand was the least effective medium for germination (only compared to two paper methods), yet i see you are using it as opposed to the "on top of the paper" method. i'm just wondering what your experience is that led you to use the sand method? i'm just hoping to avoid unnecessary problems with the small number of seeds i've ordered. thanks again to you both!aloha, george Edited by george_in_hawaii on Jul 21, 2006 at 01:48 PM
General Tropical plant growing Tips »
Bamboo Jul 19, 2006 02:32 AM
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aloha heidi. i'm a brand new convert to bamboo. like 36 hours ago or so. just bought some seeds on ebay. i'm wondering if you could sum up your method(s) in a sentence or two? length of soak, medium, depth of seed, lighting, moisture, temperature, etc. hope that isn't asking too much. i've been reading a bunch of stuff and it does seem that there is quite a bit of variety in people's techniques. i suppose it might depend on the particular seed variety and vitality too. lots of variables. i had bought a couple of two gallon bamboo starts about 6 months ago at a farmers' market here in hawaii (rainy side of the big island), and they just sat and sat and sat after i had transplanted them and didn't do anything (being dug up about 6 times by feral pigs didn't help!). i was wanting enough lumber to build a small structure in a couple of years! nothing like the rude awakening of reality! i'm not known as a patient person. anyhow, about a month ago they started sending out some 1/4 inch culms that were angular at each node... then about two weeks ago a culm appeared that was about 1 inch plus in diameter... and now it is almost 7 feet high! woohoo! this weekend i will likely see the person i bought it from and try to find out what variety it is... all i know at this point is that it is clumping. so i went crazy and bought about 8 varieties of seeds (several "black" which i really like the look of...). wondering if you have any experience with buying seeds from internet/european sources and the effects of mailing, etc. thanks for any input and best wishes with your seedlings! aloha and mahalo, george Edited by george_in_hawaii on Jul 19, 2006 at 02:35 AM |
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