Yes ! It sure isn't capable of growing in zone 7b. I made a mistake believing what they write. Lewis Bamboo writes YES it will grow in my area and it will get 75 feet in my zip code . What a joke and the jokes on ME!
I personally like your forest. What was the bamboo you liked? I am in central Oklahoma and will be trying to grow something like you have there i bought moso this year but plan to have 3 to 4 different types.
The most winter hardy and vigorous is yellow groove. It gets big enough to use its timber even in a zone 7A cold climate just fine. It's the best for cold for its size. Vivax is the biggest you'll be able to grow without worrying about cold winters in Oklahoma. Moso just dies most winters and is quite stupid. It sends up its only shoots before freezing is even over . Most winters it gets below 8 degrees Fahrenheit and it dies to the ground only to send up thin stalks that only grow 10 feet tall. Sometimes it'll not get below 8 degrees all winter and I'll get lucky and have no surprise late spring freezes and if that happens 5 years moso will get big but the 6th winter the Grove dies. I am sorry I bought moso. I drove long distance to buy its huge clump and got cheated.
@@slaik3088 zone 9 excellent but if I lived in that zone I'd grow figs and loquats and pomegranates. Bamboo is kind of like a giant lawn you can build things with if you have a splitter and are the craftsman type. Otherwise if you can grow so many other things you can eat and sell for more why Bamboo timber? Also Bamboo needs a lot of rainfall. It wont grow in dry summer areas. My difficulty is the dry summer with little rain from June to autumn frost and late spring freezes after the Bamboo begins growing. The shoots only grow once per year and only a few weeks. They are very tender and break very easily. Once bitten by an animal, Stepped on, or frosted that shoot dies and no other shoots will be back until next spring. If very many shoots are damaged the Bamboo will send up smaller shoots the next year. The ancient Chinese Bamboo farmers wrote about planting a bamboo grove ; the first year it sleeps, second year it creeps under ground, third year it leaps above ground. It takes a lot of patience.
Should i get moso or parvafolia or incence i dont have that much space but engh i want as big of a bamboo as posible but im afriad of early frosts taking i live in bergen norway wich would you recomend i could also get vivax mcclure idk much about that varety. The avrage latest frost is 22 april
I am very sorry that I even bought moso. It dies whenever winter drops to 8° Fahrenheit or anything colder. It sends up its only shoots every year before freezes are even over and these shoots die too. If you want a problem free cold hardy AGGRESSIVE timber bamboo for winters that can get Zero degrees Fahrenheit and that waits intelligently before sending up its only spring shoots yellow groove is the right one. Yellow Groove gets big enough to split and make things with. It's very tall and strong. It is industrial strength tall timber. It's not even nearly as fat as moso can get in a tropical region but its the best we can do in places that can sometimes freeze until mid to late April . Moso needs winters that rarely freeze at all and only freezing while moso is completely dormant. I've had moso almost 20 years and it's never established here in my USDA cold hardiness zone 7b climate because it's simply too cold here.
Wow, sure did take a hit from what it use to produce
Yes ! It sure isn't capable of growing in zone 7b. I made a mistake believing what they write. Lewis Bamboo writes YES it will grow in my area and it will get 75 feet in my zip code . What a joke and the jokes on ME!
I personally like your forest. What was the bamboo you liked? I am in central Oklahoma and will be trying to grow something like you have there i bought moso this year but plan to have 3 to 4 different types.
The most winter hardy and vigorous is yellow groove. It gets big enough to use its timber even in a zone 7A cold climate just fine. It's the best for cold for its size. Vivax is the biggest you'll be able to grow without worrying about cold winters in Oklahoma. Moso just dies most winters and is quite stupid. It sends up its only shoots before freezing is even over . Most winters it gets below 8 degrees Fahrenheit and it dies to the ground only to send up thin stalks that only grow 10 feet tall. Sometimes it'll not get below 8 degrees all winter and I'll get lucky and have no surprise late spring freezes and if that happens 5 years moso will get big but the 6th winter the Grove dies. I am sorry I bought moso. I drove long distance to buy its huge clump and got cheated.
@inharmonywithearth9982 Thank you for your reply. I will get some of both you mentioned and try it out.
My vivax is doing well
How is pigskin doing
What are your thoughts for zone 9 for moso? What difficulties did you have in zone 7?
@@slaik3088 zone 9 excellent but if I lived in that zone I'd grow figs and loquats and pomegranates. Bamboo is kind of like a giant lawn you can build things with if you have a splitter and are the craftsman type. Otherwise if you can grow so many other things you can eat and sell for more why Bamboo timber? Also Bamboo needs a lot of rainfall. It wont grow in dry summer areas. My difficulty is the dry summer with little rain from June to autumn frost and late spring freezes after the Bamboo begins growing. The shoots only grow once per year and only a few weeks. They are very tender and break very easily. Once bitten by an animal, Stepped on, or frosted that shoot dies and no other shoots will be back until next spring. If very many shoots are damaged the Bamboo will send up smaller shoots the next year.
The ancient Chinese Bamboo farmers wrote about planting a bamboo grove ; the first year it sleeps, second year it creeps under ground, third year it leaps above ground. It takes a lot of patience.
Should i get moso or parvafolia or incence i dont have that much space but engh i want as big of a bamboo as posible but im afriad of early frosts taking i live in bergen norway wich would you recomend i could also get vivax mcclure idk much about that varety. The avrage latest frost is 22 april
I am very sorry that I even bought moso. It dies whenever winter drops to 8° Fahrenheit or anything colder. It sends up its only shoots every year before freezes are even over and these shoots die too. If you want a problem free cold hardy AGGRESSIVE timber bamboo for winters that can get Zero degrees Fahrenheit and that waits intelligently before sending up its only spring shoots yellow groove is the right one. Yellow Groove gets big enough to split and make things with. It's very tall and strong. It is industrial strength tall timber. It's not even nearly as fat as moso can get in a tropical region but its the best we can do in places that can sometimes freeze until mid to late April . Moso needs winters that rarely freeze at all and only freezing while moso is completely dormant. I've had moso almost 20 years and it's never established here in my USDA cold hardiness zone 7b climate because it's simply too cold here.
@@inharmonywithearth9982 I think il be going for vivax is that beter`?