Hi everyone,

i'm new on this forum by the way, we have recently moved house and have had to replant some more of my black and golden bamboo, i have also had a custom planter built by my jolly self and seems to be doing a great job! 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.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Dr. G.

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.

Hi,

Thats what i had cross my mind! the specimens of golden bamboo look like they are several years old and are 8' plus in height. i will get to the local garden store and see about a high nitrogen food/fertiliser and if i find something suitable i will stock up on it!! the black bamboo's look fine except for the one that lost all the leaves, the other ones are starting to grow fresh new leaves which can only be a good sign i assume. hopefully we are in the area to stay and will not be moving house again for years to come.

Thanks for you're help!!

Regards, Dr. G

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:07:31 +0000, Dr. greenthumb wrote:

echinosum;930474 Wrote:
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.

Hi,

Thats what i had cross my mind! the specimens of golden bamboo look like
they are several years old and are 8' plus in height. i will get to the
local garden store and see about a high nitrogen food/fertiliser and if
i find something suitable i will stock up on it!! the black bamboo's
look fine except for the one that lost all the leaves, the other ones
are starting to grow fresh new leaves which can only be a good sign i
assume. hopefully we are in the area to stay and will not be moving
house again for years to come.

Thanks for you're help!!

Regards, Dr. G

I wouldn't use a high nitrogen fertilizer.
Bamboo is a grass so a fertilizer specifically for lawn would be more
apppropriate. I would suggest an organic as opposed to a chemical type.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington

You are quite right Travis, high N is the wrong kind. You want a fertiliser to encourage root development, such as bonemeal.

I would use no chemical fertilizer the first year at all. But I would
mulch heavily with compost, shredded leaves, grass clippings etc.
Just don't pile clippings up high enough that they heat up.

Travis;932940 Wrote:
I wouldn't use a high nitrogen fertilizer.
Bamboo is a grass so a fertilizer specifically for lawn would be more
apppropriate.
You are quite right Travis, high N is the wrong kind. You want a
fertiliser to encourage root development, such as bonemeal.

Actually lawn fertilizers are high nitrogen, 60, 38, 8 was one I used
when I was in the "Trade"
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09=IX

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:41:14 -0700, Garrapata wrote:


Travis;932940 Wrote:
I wouldn't use a high nitrogen fertilizer.
Bamboo is a grass so a fertilizer specifically for lawn would be more
apppropriate.
You are quite right Travis, high N is the wrong kind. You want a
fertiliser to encourage root development, such as bonemeal.

Actually lawn fertilizers are high nitrogen, 60, 38, 8 was one I used
when I was in the "Trade"

Lawn/grass fertilizers should have a ratio of 3/1/2.

--

Travis in Shoreline Washington

As per my experience i only like to tell you that you from bottom of this tree we only cut it and then panted it in soil. then after a lots of water it require to make it a long and healthy tree.

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