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Bamboo Growing Habits
Views: 476Added: Tue. Feb 02, 2010 2:29pm
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Bamboo canes only grow for 60 days. No matter how tall they get or how large the diameter. Start to Finish a single cane (culm) shoots to the sky in 60 days. Bamboo has been known to grow up to 4 feet in a single day!
Growth starts in the Spring and new shoots sprout out of the ground (from whats called rhizome nodes). The culms diameter, as it emerges, tells the story for its entire life. The girth of the cane at 1 inch will be the same at 50 feet. A new cane could emerge from the ground at 6 inches in diamter for example!
The cane will put on new foliage every year depending on the species and can last up to 14 years.
Bamboo uses energy from itself (the colony) forming new growth each year improving in diameter and height.
This colony plant is a member of the grass family. With all things considered: species selection, soil, sunlight, climate and watering conditions..... Bamboo takes about three years to get established and will continue to grow bigger and more numerous yearly reaching their maximum size in 4-15 years (depending on species).
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