2016-05-26 Bamboos went outside

I took all the bamboos and placed them on my balcony. The balcony is pointed towards West so, where is no much direct sun. As well I have a shelters and a little roof.

For night time bamboos were taken back home.

JoGi

2016-05-23 A bit different watering and hardening

Watering 

Watering is one of the most important things for plants. As we found out - bamboos loves wet soil but it hates standing water.

After we do the watering the pallet under the bamboos looks like this:

So the water is pent under the bamboos. Bamboo roots are getting sick about this and the leaves are getting brown. So the solution that i found is - water bamboos once, then use the same water to water them once again just after the first watering is finished. After these two watering circles the soil is getting really wet and the water is poured away.

As well I use the sprayer to imitate the raining water. I guess that bamboos love raining water.

Hardening

Now we are starting adoption of the bamboos for outside weather situation. 

Every day I use my hand to touch all the bamboos. I imitate wind :)

As well I keep open brow box for night time and close for day time. Using this method I'm trying to imitate cold nights and very hot days, because this is what we have here in our country. 

In a near future bamboos will go outside.

JoGi

2016-05-23 Transplantation of Yunnanensis

We had 15 seeds of Yunnanensis bamboo seeds but the only one seed germinated well.

I covered the pallet under the plastic bag under the water heater. I really have good conditions there - +30 degrees of Celsius and the humidity is really high.

The only bad think is that this germinated seed have really big shoot. It is about 14-15 centimeters height.

While the other seeds are staying still in the soil. 

As I told I use the plastic bag on the pallet so my plant looks like under pressure in this pot. 

I transplanted it into the other pot where i do not use plastic bag.

I was afraid to damage the root but as I see this could the a starting rhizome.

We hope that this sprout will adopt to new "friends" as well the rest of the seeds will germinate as fast as it possible in the given conditions. 

JoGi

2016-05-23 Bamboos looks pretty good. Some of them are about 20 cm height

Just few photos of my bamboos. As I see there is no problems with them :)

JoGi

2016-05-22 Gift from Mom

My mother still do not understand that I'm really growing bamboos.

She was doing cleaning in the basement and she found a lot of flowerpots. She asked me to take these pots and throw out it to the recycle bin near by the house. 

Thanks god that was me not my brother or father. They would just simply throw out these pots.

Now we have some pots for our further growing. Thank you Mom :)))

Jo

 

2016-05-14 Bamboo stranger

We have one bamboo stranger. It has 3 leaves at one elevation. It looks very different comparing to other bamboos.

If talking straightly - this is my favorite one :))

Jo

2016-05-12 Moso is 18 centimers height

2016-05-12 Moso is 18 centimers height. We feel the power of the growBOX. I see that bamboos are growing faster inside the box

And here we can see really nice bamboo mustaches :))

JoGi