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- Green Thumb
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Re: Starting to Farm Bamboo
By the way, LIcenter, lol on the big machines trying to eradicate it. Yeah, there are bulldozers in the rivercane patch in the woods too, but there are new shoots every time they come back to check. Lesson: You cannot get rid of bamboo
so just enjoy your everlasting resources! Food, wood, panda magnet...what could be better?

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- Green Thumb
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- rainbowgardener
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Really? True bamboo seed is rare, expensive, and difficult to find and it does not remain viable for very long. If you paid less than $.25 per seed, it is probably not true bamboo. Some varieties of bamboo only flower once in a human lifetime.
I've never tried it, but here's an article about germinating bamboo seeds.
https://www.gator-ventures.com/bamboo/ba ... nation.htm
I've never tried it, but here's an article about germinating bamboo seeds.
https://www.gator-ventures.com/bamboo/ba ... nation.htm
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- Green Thumb
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- Green Thumb
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- Green Thumb
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Ok, thanks! I can't believe they survived my neglect--the hundred were in a bowl of water for two months, three sprouted, then the water evaporated, and two survived. They were on a shelf near the ceiling and I had forgotten about them. I went to clean the shelf and discovered the parched seedlings. I immediately rinsed them thoroughly and put them in a seed starter, because I had no pots on hand.