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The temperate clumpers grow best in partial shade, and in places with drier summers and a significant cooling-off period at night, Such as NE and PNW USA. Placement and care will influence how fast and tall a bamboo will grow. Older, more established plants, usually at least 3 years in the ground, will grow faster than newly planted ones. Taller running types, like Phyllostachys, usually grow 3-5 feet in height per year. Temperate clumpers, like Fargesia, average about 1-3 feet in height per year. It depends on if they’re runners or clumpers, how old they are, and where they are planted. This is a tough question to generalize because there are so many different types of bamboo and different climates in which to grow bamboo. The bamboo is hard at work though, pumping water to support all the leaves, and expanding the root mass for next seasons new shoots. Outside of the shooting season, in the summer and fall for most types, most of the growth occurs underground where it is not visible. A mature grove of bamboo has a mixture of canes with different size and age. This is why thinning a bamboo grove becomes important once the bamboo has become established. Individual canes can live for 10+ years, unless they get shaded out or are somehow compromised. Older canes will never increase in height, but will simply put on a new crop of leaves each year. The shooting period for most species is April though June.

MOSO BAMBOO ZONE FULL

The new shoots grow to their full height in about 2-3 months. (Think of the runners as the warm-season spreading grasses and the clumpers as the cool-season tufted grasses.) Basically, the bamboo increases its height and diameter by putting up new, larger canes each growing season until it hits its max height for the area it’s planted in. Simply stated, bamboo grows UP in the spring and OUT in the summer and fall.īamboo is a grass, and as such, grows much the same way your lawn grasses grow, just on a much larger scale. Running bamboo include many different genera and species, ranging in size from a foot tall to 80 feet tall, and can be either slow or quick spreading, and either open or dense growing, depending on the species and where it is planted. In some extreme cases runners can spread over 15 feet in a season. Mature plants spread 3 to 5 feet on average, (most will also increase 3-5 feet in height per year as well). Because of this dual growth system runners are able to cover more ground per year than clumpers. Instead, as they push through the soil the lateral buds produce either canes or new rhizomes perpendicular to the parent rhizome. They have a leptomorph rhizome system, which means the rhizomes don’t usually turn up and become canes. Running bamboo spread at moderate to fast paces.

They are considered non-invasive and are very easy to maintain. This causes them to gradually expand outward at a modest and predictable pace. They have a pachymorph rhizome system, which means that the underground buds turn upward and become canes immediately, as opposed to the running types which can travel several feet outward, producing canes along the way each season.

Shoots make some huge progress after some warmer weatherġ9 July 2010 Plant starts to get really bushy and still has 4 more months to grow for the season.What’s the difference between running bamboo and clumping bamboo?Ĭlumping bamboo spread very slowly. Onset of shooting season with much larger shoots than last year. It started out as a 2ft tall 1 culm plant with literally 6 yellowish leaves in a 1 gallon pot that was mostly soil in the summer of 2008, but it has made a ton of progress and now in the summer of 2010 it is a decent size grove of around 100 culms varying from 4-6ft tall with several rhizomes starting to leave the confines of the original clump.Ģ4 July 2008, starting to make its first shoots.Ģ0 August 2009 more shoots come out of the canopy that reach the 3-4ft range. Just wanted to share some pictures of how my phyllostachys edulis moso bamboo has progressed from the time I bought it until now.

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