Hydroponic bamboo shoot crop?

[akallas638]

I am considering growing bamboo as a gourmet edible.
Can it be done with hydroponics?
Thanks,
Alex

[Mark Meckes]

Here's another post on the general topic of ... Hydroponic Bamboo (http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/showthread.php?t=875)

In a way, if one uses drip irrigation in the field to augument rainfall needs, it's a form of hydroponics ...
If we're discussing a completly enclosed recycling nutrient system, that's another story.

The fact that bamboo has to first spend some years building up a body of energy to produce large size shoots, and that bamboo has different nutritional/water uptake needs at different times of the year, would make for some challenging research to provide the boo what it needs.

Mark

[toisan]

Aloha,

During the annual meeting in Pasadena several years back, one of the speaker from sou CA. had 200 acres in B. olhamii. It was used as a food source for his restaurant.

I am sure you can check on this person if you will check with the ABS chapter in SO CA.

Paul