In the end I’ve ended up with 2 living seedling, one is declining and is now hardly any larger than one year old seedling, but the second one managed to survive all the torture and eventually escaped the pot in its second year. I’ve been slowly learning about bamboos on my onwn mistakes and growing them in containers was a nightmare. I’ve learned Moso bamboo is hard to keep happy.
I was able to get several seedlings to grow slowly from tiny little plant to not so tiny bamboo seedlings. Second batch of seeds was supposed to be fresh and much more viable. I’ve tried 100 seeds and couldn’t get one single seedling to sprout. I tried planting bamboo seeds in 2011 and failed miserably with old Phyllostachys pubescens Moso seeds. Shoots that did not snap are seriously bent Could be much worse if there was just a little bit more snow. Some of the shoots have snapped under the weight of snowNone of the larger shoots got damaged and they took off instantly after the snow was gone.įruit trees and walnuts were also lucky enough to survive without a lot of breakage. Some of them snapped and died off, but most of them recovered with culm deformation which resembles genuflection, often seen on P. When the snow finally melted, most of the shoots that were bent to the ground recovered.
Other bamboos were only slightly damaged, because new branches already started to grow, shoots were either too small or not existent. The largest shoots were pushed towards the ground by the weight of the culms, but so far, there’s no visible damage, even if they point into different direction. Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘Spectabilis’ was lucky to have started growing the shoots slowly.
Here’s how the Phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘Spectabilis’ culms look like in the snow. Large Moso shoots have been growing on the northern side of the older clumps and that’s what saved them from breakage – bamboo grew more leaves towards south and the culms always fall down into south-eastern direction. All those shoots were not nearly hardened enough to handle the weight of heavy snow alone, not to mention the weight of whole bamboo flattened to the ground. These two started shooting early this year and many smaller shoots already started poking over the canopy of last year’s culms. Like I already mentioned, most of my bamboos already started shooting, especially early shooters like Fargesia sp. Only an inch of wet snow flattened Spectabilis to the ground. Considering the fact that a lot of it melted, because of nicely warmed ground, there might have been more on the completely flattened bamboo. Luckily it only snowed for a couple more hours and stopped completely by the end of the day. It snowed for the rest of the day and by early evening, I could hear distant breaking of tree branches. When it darkened in the middle of the day, thunderstorm brought sleet and first half melted snow which instantly started to pile up on plants, even if the soil remained warm enough to melt it. The day started warm with strong southern wind, but the wind direction changed instantly, heavy low altitude black clouds appeared temperature dropped from around 15☌ to just a bit above freezing. Most of bamboos already started shooting some time ago, trees are all leafed-out and most of the fruits have already flowered. Large Moso shoots when it started to snow.Īfter several weeks of extremely nice and warm weather, polar blast brought much lower temperatures and a ‘shipment’ of heavy wet snow. I thought growing ‘fake’ seeds could be a project, not only because of high uncertainty regarding the bamboo variety the seeds came from, but also the fact that the seeds might have problems with germination. Out of hundred of old Moso seeds, I couldn’t even get one seedling. It happened twice with Moso seeds I’ve ordered in the past. Bamboo seeds lose viability quite fast and when the seeds are not properly stored, germination rate drops heavily. Lotteryīased on my previous experience with growing bamboo seeds, I’ve had very low expectations. At least bamboo seeds were bamboo seeds, not some kind of turf grass. My initial assumption is that all the seeds are regular Moso seeds which are readily available every year.Īs I received the seeds, I found out (I suspected that when placing an order) that more than half if not all the seeds were fake – they were physically completely different. Since I know that Phyllostachys aureosulcata is not flowering at the moment and the seeds are named falsely, I decided to try growing the seeds and see what I can get. I’ve ordered a bunch of different seeds and among them two bamboos – Phyllostachys pubescens ‘Moso’ and Phyllostachys aureosulcata.
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