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Originally Posted by Dr. greenthumb
we have recently moved house and have had to replant some more of my black and golden bamboo ... the bamboo was planted in early march in there final position, but i think they suffered a little, one of the five has lost all leaves, will the best thing to do be to just keep at it? i'm kind of new at keeping bamboo, and i have never done this before, will they take long to reastablish?
also the weather here in Fife, Scotland, has been quite poor for the summer monthes this year, could this play a part in it's wellfare? i think it could well be,.. but i'm just not very sure.
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When you dig up bamboo and replant it, you lose a lot of the fine roots that collect water and food for the plant. It is normal in this situation to reduce the stress on the plant by reducing the above-ground plant, so it can concentrate on rebuilding the root system. This reduction can be done by reducing the number of culms, shortening culms, or even by a partial deleafing. This reduces the risk of the full deleafing that you experienced with one plant.
Unfortunately by failing to do this, you have probably slowed down the re-establishment. You can now get a "re-juvenation", in the bad sense, ie, the plant starts to send up smaller juvenile culms, which will then take a few years to mature again.
Black bamboo likes warmer conditions, so I expect this could be slower. Depending exactly what you mean by golden bamboo, there are some that are quite happy in the cooler conditions of E Scotland.
Depending upon how mature the plant was when you dug it up, feed it very well - now is a very good time of year to feed them heavily to get good growth next year - and maybe it will recover in 2-3 years, less if it wasn't very old to start with.