I've had squirells eating my shoots and had to discourage them last year. For deer I have found a near perfect solution for bamboo and gardens that works...
We had been provided a land of 200,000 Hectare in Himalayan State by Govt. of India to cultivate the Bamboo and generating employment for rural people. In the...
FYI: http://www.inbar.int/volunteers/Summervols.htm Jinhe Summer Volunteers Programme NEW - Summer volunteers 2005 vacancies All these positions last for up to...
Hi, I have only been a member of this group for a short time so please forgive me if my questions have already been answered. Four years ago I planted one...
Hi Seekix, The Washington State Extension has been doing ongoing work with shoot production. Here are some links that might be relevant to some of your...
Dear Frank and group, Thank you for the detailed explanation. Thank you to everyone for your comments as well. I think this type of information sharing is...
Frank, This is a superb note and I think will certainly shut me up for a while as I dig into it and finally maybe get a handle on all of this, hopefully...
Frank, At the risk of sounding like a 'know it all', I must say that there is nothing contradictory in the statements about bamboo fiber on the two links you...
Dear Frank, Have been following the exchanges on bamboo fabric with interest for some time, you are right the alkalisation-hydrolysis process is related to...
Hi Grace the only Reference i could come up with off the top of my head (and is only vaguely related to your school project) was: Banik, R.L. (1997) Growth...
I am at the tail end of shoot harvesting and preparing my groves for the forthcoming year. As I really like thre open look, I have been pruning branches up to...
Dear Grace, Below I send you a link to a paper entitled ASPECTS OF BAMBOO AGRONOMY by Volker Kleinhenz and David Midmore of Central Queensland University....
I interested in constructing a modern sailing yacht using bamboo as the main medium using the W.E.S.T. Wood Epoxy Saturation Technique. This will require...
Gracey, Hopefully you won't have been too discouraged by that response to the questions you posted.Many of us are just like you, struggling to come to...
Dear all, I wonder why my potted bamboo cutting plantlets are maturing at a about 1.5m height and not able to grow any taller. Does any of us nhave the same...
Dear all, I also have had the same problem: plantelts raised from cuttings just shrivel and die, whatever I try even from this site. Please reply to0 this if...
Kevin, Looking at the photo, in the lower middle right, there is a traditional looking (at least to me) bamboo flower bract. In the center is what I assume to...
... bamboo as ... Technique. ... using ... and as long as ... achieved by ... bamboo ... thickness by ... sourced, or ... To Frank from Frank (frankly...
Please can anybody tell which specie of bamboo is this one ???I never saw this before, is amazing how is big the flowers. Is a very important bambooooo??? Do...
My name is Guillermo Jorge Rosemberg de la Torre and now, a 75 years old peruvian. Bamboo is a natural in Peru, but I really went interested when in Puerto...
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BTW, sorry not to have responded to carbon sequestration replies - have been swamped - will do soon for all those who replied.!! Meantime, anyone know anything...
Dear Celina, It is the fruit of Melocanna bambusoides the muli bamboo that is threatening in the North eastern India around 2007.This is the biggest fruit...
Dear A. C. Lakshmana, Ičve only seen one recent picture and it was from the Central Chronicle from the link that Kevin Lang posted a day or so ago: ...
Dear Natrajan This is Melocanna bacciferra, locally called muli bamboo. It is in bloom in Northeast India.This bamboo was planted last year in Uttranchal...
Dear Raj, Seeds of Melocanna baccifera, which is currentlly flowering in NE states, are available from: Tripura Bamboo and Cane Development Centre (TRIBAC) ...
Dear Celina, The bamboo shown is Melocanna baccifera Kurz. (Melocanna bambusoides Trin.), locally called "Muli". Its fruits are "large, fleshy, pear-shaped,...