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ShmuBamboo
27th June 2007, 02:47 AM
Man, I was at my brother's this weekend and his P. aurea is just too huge! I swore it could not be golden boo that size. But it was. I was perplexed... shoots over 2 inches in diameter popping up out of the ground. We have a huge hedge of golden boos here on the farm that must be over 20 years old now and there are no culms in that hedge over 1-1/4 inch in diameter. My brother planted his clumps of P. aurea maybe 3 years ago and they are running far and putting up the massive shoots... sure enough, in my ABS listing they say that golden can get to 3 inches in diameter. I have never seen golden that fat before, even in the bigger boo plaintations and nurseries.

Maybe I will snap some photos of his shoots this weekend when I am up there again. That is, if the boos have not taken over his house by the time I get back up there... and I am trying to figure out how I can fatten up my goden boo hedge here. I feed and water it... sheep poop and spring water.

Mark Meckes
27th June 2007, 02:59 AM
Does your brother's P. aurea culms has any of the infamous distorted node/internodes? ...
Can you take a measurement to culmfirm their diameter?

Phyllostachys aurea Austin Texas
http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/503/thumbs/1Mvc-202f.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=685) http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/data/503/thumbs/1Mvc-204f.jpg (http://www.bamboocraft.net/bamboo/showphoto.php?photo=687)

A few freak culms are growing to 2 1/2" (6cm+) diameter

See also this thread: Phyllostachys aurea 'Takemurai' = P. meyeri? (http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2045)

ShmuBamboo
27th June 2007, 03:14 AM
Ha! Now that you remind me, yah, they have some weird lower culms on them. We thought that they might be tortoise shell boos or something. I will take a photo of that as well, and measure the culms.