Bamboo Propagation Study - March 2017

I spent a couple of hours in early March using the reciprocating saw to cut out Emerald bamboo canes that had been cut short in the back of the 10 original clumps.  They were cut when FPL came through and decided that they were too close to the power line in the back, which goes over Drew's property.

That's fine, we turned lemons into lemonade!  I cut out the 4-6' canes at the rhizome/root level, cut them down to 2-3 feet, and put each of them in 3 gallon pots with potting mix.  The objective, of course, is to create bamboo that could be sold to someone (or planted all over P2's new ag zones that we're pondering).  There are about 10 pots which are now in the process of propagation.

Here's the timeline I'm going to be watching for:

NEW BAMBOO PHOTOS

This is Fluffy, he is the gatekeeper to the back of the A-J Emerald Bamboo clumps.  Fluffy is a Timber bamboo.

Here's the twins, two of the 3 large Seabreeze bamboo we got earlier this year at Beautiful Bamboo.  The 3rd is "six-ish" who lives now between 6 and 7 of the original 10 Emerald clumps.

Here's today's planting at the end of the bamboo forest line.

On the left you see Tiny.  Tiny is a propagated Emerald bamboo who is VERY tall, and since he sprouted tall green leaves at about 10 feet, we couldn't cut him shorter.

After Tiny is Skeeny, he's an original bamboo propagation who also sprouted green leaves.

Then follows Baby Baby and Spike, our successful original bamboo propagations from cut canes.

Another view of the happy bamboo kids.

This is one of our Majesty Palms, in his new spot on the ag lot. 

This is a view of our lovely home from the other end of the pond.  We're considering planting a papaya tree here, so we were checking the positioning.

Here are photos of our latest plantings.

First Seabreeze Bamboo Culm Baby! March 15, 2017

We were out in the bamboo forest today planting a few more bamboo from pots into the ground:  Spike, Baby Baby, Fluffy, Skeeny (propagated from original bamboo patch), and Tiny (an Emerald that was sawed out of the ground and insisted on shooting out green leaves 10 feet in the air before we could cut him shorter).  While out there, we noticed the first bamboo culm of the year!  One of the Seabreeze bamboo from Beautiful Bamboo is already making a culm mid March.  It's going to be a very prolific year for bamboo culms, I'm betting.

DAYTIME RACON

Enjoying the Racon playground gym (formerly known as Fake Tree)