Outside of the shooting season, in the summer and fall for most types, most of the growth occurs underground where it is not visible. A mature grove of bamboo has a mixture of canes with different size and age. This is why thinning a bamboo grove becomes important once the bamboo has become established. Individual canes can live for 10+ years, unless they get shaded out or are somehow compromised. Older canes will never increase in height, but will simply put on a new crop of leaves each year. The shooting period for most species is April though June.
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The new shoots grow to their full height in about 2-3 months. (Think of the runners as the warm-season spreading grasses and the clumpers as the cool-season tufted grasses.) Basically, the bamboo increases its height and diameter by putting up new, larger canes each growing season until it hits its max height for the area it’s planted in. Simply stated, bamboo grows UP in the spring and OUT in the summer and fall.īamboo is a grass, and as such, grows much the same way your lawn grasses grow, just on a much larger scale. Running bamboo include many different genera and species, ranging in size from a foot tall to 80 feet tall, and can be either slow or quick spreading, and either open or dense growing, depending on the species and where it is planted. In some extreme cases runners can spread over 15 feet in a season. Mature plants spread 3 to 5 feet on average, (most will also increase 3-5 feet in height per year as well). Because of this dual growth system runners are able to cover more ground per year than clumpers. Instead, as they push through the soil the lateral buds produce either canes or new rhizomes perpendicular to the parent rhizome.
They have a leptomorph rhizome system, which means the rhizomes don’t usually turn up and become canes. Running bamboo spread at moderate to fast paces. They are considered non-invasive and are very easy to maintain. This causes them to gradually expand outward at a modest and predictable pace. They have a pachymorph rhizome system, which means that the underground buds turn upward and become canes immediately, as opposed to the running types which can travel several feet outward, producing canes along the way each season. What’s the difference between running bamboo and clumping bamboo?Ĭlumping bamboo spread very slowly.
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