A very informative piece. Thank you! I have learned to appreciate Rivercane for its excellent properties in making atl atl dart shafts. I had no idea about its other historical significance. I appreciate it even more now. It’s virtually unknown here on the Delmarva peninsula where I live, But I managed to stumble on to a small patch near my home near my home near Easton Maryland. You have inspired me to try and propagate some to help protect it here on the Delmarva Peninsula. Do you have any advice for propagating it from cuttings or other means? .
My eye once caught a patch of green in the winter and I had to check it out. I was surprised to find it was bamboo, and I asked the property owner for some roots when I returned there in the early spring. It transplanted well and has spread quite nice over the last 7 years. I've noticed it in the NYC area from videos I have seen.
I let old man Flatts cane patch run onto my place and its a good thing that I did beacause when he died it was all cut out by the new owners. Im currently trying to get it to run up the side of my property for privacy year round. Im gonna try to transplant some that is growing too far in the yard next time it rains.
Good info! Thanks Al. I never new that much about it. Theres a variety here in central Texas Ive been told is called Phragmites which sucks for arrows and darts so I dont pay it much attention. I want to grow some of the good stuff all over my property if it will grow in sand? I use the heck out it for atlatl darts and arrows.
Though it's not apparently known to grow this far north, I found a patch of what an app on my phone calls bamboo on the side of a railway in northeast Ohio. Very thin stalks, grew in extremely thick & only about 8 ft high. Not really sure if it's invasive or not, though there isn't much of it & it isn't really spreading all too far. Animals are eating it, that's probably why.
@@ScottTangents I use leafsnap. It has its drawbacks, though. I'd definitely suggest only using it as part of a tool set to learn how to do this sort of thing, but it should definitely be able to tell you that any species of bamboo is, indeed, a type of bamboo. It knows individual species, but it's not always very good at telling them apart.
@@ScottTangentstry picture this also most cane in Florida will be sugar cane due to the monocrop fields made by the sugar industry but it may be possible
While true that there are only one to three species of native Arundinaria bamboo found within the US, it is not true that there are no other kinds of cane or bamboo in the entire hemisphere. There are many genera and species of native bamboo from central Mexico south through much of South America.
I planted some river cane in my back yard that a farmer gave me I need tips to get it to grow better I planted it next to a wet spot but it's spreading away from it and only getting waist hi
The question is, where do I buy it so I can spread it across my lands? It appears there are few online sources and even then aren't reputable as often people mistake cane with that yellow striped bamboo.
I would warn anybody that this cane proliferates at an unbelievable rate. Try to have a small patch on your property, and you will spend your time trying to keep it in check. It must be cut completely flush with the ground. Its stobs become as hard as steel and take years to rot.
I planted some river cane in my back yard that a farmer gave me I need tips to get it to grow better I planted it next to a wet spot but it's spreading away from it and only getting waist hi
My kind of privacy fence! Come on, Kentucky, Let’s plant and protect our river cane.
Revisited this video today. Interesting comments at the beginning... some things need to be utilized and some things need to be protected.
Great video, well done
A very informative piece. Thank you! I have learned to appreciate Rivercane for its excellent properties in making atl atl dart shafts. I had no idea about its other historical significance. I appreciate it even more now.
It’s virtually unknown here on the Delmarva peninsula where I live, But I managed to stumble on to a small patch near my home near my home near Easton Maryland. You have inspired me to try and propagate some to help protect it here on the Delmarva Peninsula. Do you have any advice for propagating it from cuttings or other means?
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My eye once caught a patch of green in the winter and I had to check it out. I was surprised to find it was bamboo, and I asked the property owner for some roots when I returned there in the early spring. It transplanted well and has spread quite nice over the last 7 years. I've noticed it in the NYC area from videos I have seen.
I let old man Flatts cane patch run onto my place and its a good thing that I did beacause when he died it was all cut out by the new owners. Im currently trying to get it to run up the side of my property for privacy year round. Im gonna try to transplant some that is growing too far in the yard next time it rains.
Great video, looking to start some on my property in a swampy creek area
Thanks!
Utilization isn't what has caused river cane to become scarce. It's abusive habitat distruction.
Good info! Thanks Al. I never new that much about it. Theres a variety here in central Texas Ive been told is called Phragmites which sucks for arrows and darts so I dont pay it much attention. I want to grow some of the good stuff all over my property if it will grow in sand? I use the heck out it for atlatl darts and arrows.
How do I get some to plant here in south Texas
Though it's not apparently known to grow this far north, I found a patch of what an app on my phone calls bamboo on the side of a railway in northeast Ohio. Very thin stalks, grew in extremely thick & only about 8 ft high. Not really sure if it's invasive or not, though there isn't much of it & it isn't really spreading all too far. Animals are eating it, that's probably why.
What’s the app name? I want to find native bamboo in Florida.
@@ScottTangents I use leafsnap. It has its drawbacks, though. I'd definitely suggest only using it as part of a tool set to learn how to do this sort of thing, but it should definitely be able to tell you that any species of bamboo is, indeed, a type of bamboo. It knows individual species, but it's not always very good at telling them apart.
@@MrChristianDT not impossible giant river cane has been found in NY
@@ScottTangentstry picture this also most cane in Florida will be sugar cane due to the monocrop fields made by the sugar industry but it may be possible
Sounds like what we call native switch cane
I have been up upper and lower cane creek
While true that there are only one to three species of native Arundinaria bamboo found within the US, it is not true that there are no other kinds of cane or bamboo in the entire hemisphere. There are many genera and species of native bamboo from central Mexico south through much of South America.
I noticed the same thing. People need to read "American Bamboos." A great book and very educational. South America has many, many species of bamboo.
Wow. This was ALL over my neighborhood in St. Louis. Inthihht it was bamboo
I planted some river cane in my back yard that a farmer gave me I need tips to get it to grow better I planted it next to a wet spot but it's spreading away from it and only getting waist hi
where can i buy some?
Can you free up some space around the canes to grow more
Great information about canes if it grew was able to grow in SE Nebraska i would
The question is, where do I buy it so I can spread it across my lands? It appears there are few online sources and even then aren't reputable as often people mistake cane with that yellow striped bamboo.
I don't know where you are, but it grows wild here in my part of Texas. If you ever get here with a shovel I can lead you to it.
Rock Springs Restorations in Georgia has sold it to me in the past.
anon ymous it grows over most of the lower 48 states or can
www.bamboogardencenter.com/products.html?page=shop.browse&category_id=40
How do you identify it?
By the branching. Most exotic bamboos planted in the colder areas of the country are in the genus of phyllostachys.
Grow the river canebrakes and bamboo as it sequesters CO2 far better than trees and requires little care.
lots in 'charlotte, NC growing by stream beds
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I have this in my back yard
I would warn anybody that this cane proliferates at an unbelievable rate. Try to have a small patch on your property, and you will spend your time trying to keep it in check. It must be cut completely flush with the ground. Its stobs become as hard as steel and take years to rot.
I would love you grow this
I'll try to grow it Moon Goose Meadows.
Please see the criteria for 'invasive'. While bamboo can be hard to control, it does not meet the criteria for invasive species.
It is entirely invasive in multiple areas in North America
Send me seeds I will grow
Theyre everywhere here in texas only in rivers tho
@@Diego-ud3nb I am a long way from Texas
@@TracysBees8713 oh... Do u live in the us
@@Diego-ud3nb I live in Kentucky
www.bamboogardencenter.com/products.html?page=shop.browse&category_id=40
Left out a lot of the genocide but otherwise very informative, thanks!
I started a "Buffalo" holler cane stand 10 years ago its poppin now. Going to make me some arrows.
I started a bamboo stand about 10 years ago to and it to is poppin.
I planted some river cane in my back yard that a farmer gave me I need tips to get it to grow better I planted it next to a wet spot but it's spreading away from it and only getting waist hi
11 months and no answer. I’d like to know as well lol