Sport Hunting

[caveman4.20]

 

[zombie III]

it would make sense that they might grow faster is they have more leaves. more photosynthesis > more growth...a positive feedback loop in effect.

 

[caveman4.20]

Roots grow faster in this outdoor one

 

[geologic]

Time for the horizontal crawl:

I stopped pruning The Dervish;
just to watch him whorl--
I always liked hanging-out with the spinners and twirlers at Grateful Dead Shows...

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[caveman4.20]

My sport stopped the tri node action it's only doing one node like a clone but really close nodes

 

[geologic]

My sport stopped the tri node action it's only doing one node like a clone but really close nodes

They usually do that.

Dervish has had 6 pruning's:
primary, secondary, tertiary, quadernary, quinary, and senary stems;
and they all continued the Whorled Phylloataxy habit--
The Force is strong in this one...

 

[zombie III]

your garden always reminds me of the kinda agriculture u see in tropical developing countries geologic. do u live in a tropical climate?

 

[geologic]

Heh;
SoCal is considered mostly desert--
or close to it...

 

[Seamaiden]

But don't say LA is a desert, please! :)

 

[geologic]

Mulch pile prepped as a top dressing;
mycorrhizae being cultivated--
and shown just exactally what kinda roots they're bein' employed for...

 

[zombie III]

Heh;
SoCal is considered mostly desert--
or close to it...

lol ok u tricked me with the bananas haha

 

[caveman4.20]

They usually do that.

Dervish has had 6 pruning's:
primary, secondary, tertiary, quadernary, quinary, and senary stems;
and they all continued the Whorled Phylloataxy habit--
The Force is strong in this one...

Should I top the plant so the three branchers start stretching?

 

[geologic]

Depends on how much more growing time you've got to work with;
are there big secondary stems now that can just "take over",
or are they small and will need too much time to develop--
need a current pic and how much time you've got.

I just do what seems right--
and it tends to work out...

 

[caveman4.20]

Depends on how much more growing time you've got to work with;
are there big secondary stems now that can just "take over",
or are they small and will need too much time to develop--
need a current pic and how much time you've got.

I just do what seems right--
and it tends to work out...

I'll post pic in morning

 

[geologic]

lol ok u tricked me with the bananas haha

Here's a trippy tropical.
Scroll back up to that banana pic from Wednesday-the-16th,
and look at the bamboo shoot in the upper left next to the yellow "protector shoot".
Woudda had a stir fry,
but I couldn't find a wok big enough...
...now look at it today--
5 days later:

Giant Golden Bamboo grows so fast;
you can actually hear it growing--
especially at night...

...'twas my main aircraft camo for ~a quarter century--
usta keep it arched over the whole garden...

 

[Seamaiden]

Lordy!

 

[caveman4.20]

Here's a trippy tropical.
Scroll back up to that banana pic from Wednesday-the-16th,
and look at the bamboo shoot in the upper left next to the yellow "protector shoot".
Woudda had a stir fry,
but I couldn't find a wok big enough...
...now look at it today--
5 days later:

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Giant Golden Bamboo grows so fast;
you can actually hear it growing--
especially at night...

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...'twas my main aircraft camo for ~a quarter century--
usta keep it arched over the whole garden...

They look like giant pot plants

Depends on how much more growing time you've got to work with;
are there big secondary stems now that can just "take over",
or are they small and will need too much time to develop--
need a current pic and how much

time you've got.

I just do what seems right--
and it tends to work out...

I got maybe 2-4 weeks veg left

 

[geologic]

It's too late to start pruning now,
and I think you live in the mountains with a shorter growing season too.

The first 3 or 4, or 5 early prunings are the most important,
as many as you can get in while the plant stays symmetrical,
after (if) they start "goin' asymmetrical" on ya you have to customize with staggered pruning;
different groups of mainstems growing at different rates are "pitted" against each other,
which can stimulate the growth of the slower ones--
next year will come sooner than it seems right now...

 

[zombie III]

that bamboo is nuts! 5 days growth??? u can see why it was used as a chinese torture method. they would people down to the ground and let the bamboo grow through them overnight. :eek:

 

[geologic]

Lordy!

Three days later--
Lordy indeed...

Between 1985 and 2000 (took me 5 years after legalization to get rid of all the camo
<old habits an' all...>
this stalk would have been the green dome over the garden.

Not even as restrictive as shadecloth, the plants seemed to like it,
especially the fact that bamboo leaves precipitate moisture out of the air.
It misty-rains beneath bamboo trees all night long,
they water themselves;
and anything else beneath 'em--
as long as it isn't dry Santa Ana desert-type wind conditions...

that bamboo is nuts! 5 days growth??? u can see why it was used as a chinese torture method. they would people down to the ground and let the bamboo grow through them overnight. :eek:

A recurring horror story on many websites and popular media outlets is that Japanese soldiers during World War II inflicted "bamboo torture" upon prisoners of war. The victim was supposedly tied securely in place above a young bamboo shoot. Over several days, the sharp, fast growing shoot would first puncture, then completely penetrate the victim's body, eventually emerging through the other side. The cast of the TV program Mythbusters investigated bamboo torture in a 2008 episode and found that a bamboo shoot can penetrate through several inches of ballistic gelatin in three days. For research purposes, ballistic gelatin is considered comparable to human flesh, and the experiment thus supported the viability of this form of torture, if not its historicity. In her memoir "Hakka Soul", the Chinese poet and author Woon-Ping Chin mentions the "bamboo torture" as one of those tortures the locals believed the Japanese performed on prisoners.

This tale of using live trees impaling persons as they grow is, however, not confined to the context of WWII and the Japanese as torturers, but was recorded in the 19th century as an allegation Malays used against the Siamese after the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821. Among other alleged punishments, the sprout of the nipah palm was used in the manner of a "bamboo torture". A "Madras civilian", in his travel description from 1820s India, asserts that it is a well known punishment in Ceylon to use a bamboo shoot in this way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_torture

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They probably used a much smaller type bamboo...