Autumn P. aureosulcata propagation?

[DeanOfGreen]

I'm in Delaware.

Earlier this year in the spring I propagated some bamboo after it had already started shooting (which I hear is not the best) but they've sent up new shoots regardless. Anyway, I'm getting ready to put a new home in one of the fields on my farm and I plan on planting bamboo around the permimeter of the field.

Here's an outline of the field

B=Bamboo
gate=self explanitory
[ ] =home
g=grass
d=driveway

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Anyway, I want it set up like this for complete privacy. This way you can only look down the driveway of my property and you can't see anything else.

My question finally is can I dig some rhizomes this late in the summer and plant them around my lot with good success?

[Mark Meckes]

Hi DeanOfGreen,
Transplanting bare rhizomes with no top growth would be "iffy" in late summer/autumn in your area
There would be a greater chance of success if the rhizomes were attached to a good chunk of soil that had some culms with live branches attached to it.
That way if the newly leafing sprouts don't get a chance to harden sufficiently, the planting should still be able to survive and produce a new flush of shoots the following spring.
I have successfully dug/transplanted Phyllostachys aureosulcata (with good rootballs and live culms) as late as November for south of Philiadelphia.

Mark