Where is my Bamboo going? ... running Bamboo at it's best (Phyllostachys Atrovaginata)

I clearly have been rather lazy about checking my running bamboo as well as installing a rhizome trench. So I have to dig the rhizomes up, a shit load of work but needs to be done if you want to keep control.

[@laurencelhoest9420]

I must admit I was watching mostly for your humor.. You are hilarious!!

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

That works for me 🤣, thank you for watching 👍

[@Tracey-t4v]

I love gardening and I love humour (it’s a necessity in life) so I’m compelled to watch! You have a very British sense of humour 😂

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

Thank you😂, I would not want to have a life without humour... 👍

[@Tracey-t4v]

@@jochen.allardice-grein Absolutely! Is Jane English? Her sense of humour may of rubbed off on you coz us Brits are as funny as fuck! 😂🤣

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

@@Tracey-t4v she is and I lived in the UK for 12+ years, I see myself as a German / British hybrid 😂

[@dahutful]

I do get a kick out of your bamboo escapades. And who knew there were so many? I only think of it for making fishing poles David

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

there are loads, and I though it was a good Idea to also plant loads of them... I really need to be better organised when it comes to looking after them, and I am sure that there will be more videos like this one 🤣

[@dahutful]

@@jochen.allardice-grein Well, while I fancy myself organized I normally tend to overdo as well.

[@druszaj]

Atrovaginata is by far my fastest growing (height and width) runner bamboo... much faster than nuda. After 5 years it's a 30-50 foot wide grove and I'm building a shed in the middle of it. All I can say is I'm glad I dug the foundation holes for the shed before the rhizomes got into that soil. 😁 Every year I have to take a few hundred culms out with the loppers to keep it contained. No regrets though as it is a beautiful plant.

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

Mine is starting to gain speed when it comes to spreading, so I need to be a little more on guard next year, not like the lazy ass I was this year 😄 but looking forward to my atro. becoming more mature, and as it is with you, I have no regret either. Love bamboo 👍

[@clemax229]

i got bisetti and aurea but i think i like this much better because of the huge calms

[@GrowTropicalMK]

That is some root! Proper funny video, even though a serious subject!

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

Thank you so much... It is a serious subject, because bamboo is a wonderful plant when you make the right choice, and know what you are dealing with, the plant isn’t the issue it is people not knowing what the commitment they are getting into.. it is like a marriage 😂😂

[@tammythompson1927]

Holy crap! I have 2 1/2 acres but I'm gonna stick to my fake bamboo plant in the house thank you. I'm not that ambitious. I can think of better things to do get my sweat on. Always like your stuff. You speak my language. Happy digging!

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

There is nothing happy about the digging 😂I am rethinking some of my choices, as usual I am moving plants like furniture, so I might just move some of them into HUGE pots or something like that.

[@tammythompson1927]

Lmao @@jochen.allardice-grein I'm finding this year that pots are a good thing. I like to move things around a lot as well. Depends on my mood. Much easier when they are in pots! Even if you need a dolly (for the HUGE ones) to do it. My husband commented on the weekend that I'm always moving $hit around. Too funny.

[@paulsmart4672]

Rad. Too bad it's a little to cold in Saskatchewan, even for Phyllostachys atrovaginata. I'd love to have some around.

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

Really, that one can survive up to -15F, does it really get that cold in Saskatchewan?? I start complaining when it goes down to 32F haha, here it can get down to 5F (-15C) but that is about it.

[@paulsmart4672]

@@jochen.allardice-grein It doesn't get quite as cold as it used to in the winter, but usually there's a still a few cold spells down around -20F for a few days to a week at a time. -40F would be unusual, but not like... extremely unusual. I don't know, maybe it could live through that with enough cover and mulch and such. It'd be a real shame if it were to live through several winters then die because there was an especially hard cold snap without much snow on the ground.

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

@@paulsmart4672 wow, I knew it gets cold in Canada, but wow. Yes it would be a shame if you had a cold spell like that and the plant would die. However as you said if you mulch it well and as long as rhizomes survives it would come back, the canes might die, but once the rhizomes are established, they would come back. I would love to try it out, if I could send you some rhizome cuttings I would.

[@clemax229]

u have do dig around serval times a year , to stop them running to far away :)

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

I know, I was too lazy for a year or so and this js what happened 😄, not doing that again

[@clemax229]

In the first years heavy soil aber cold Winter, the dont make much rhyzom i noticed, but i heard of this technique instead of a root barrier and i think it will works for this Big Gardens Like we use top have

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

@@clemax229 I have a rhizome barrier with some of mine and others I have a rhizome trench and than there are the ones where I have nothing, but I will put a trench around them as well. as it is with all running bamboos, 1 year they are sleeping, 3 year they are creeping and 5 year they are leaping, so from the 4 year you really need to start looking and be aware

[@clemax229]

@@jochen.allardice-grein i will keep that in mind. Ty alot for your advice.👍

[@drefhill]

Do you know how to differentiate it from the Heteroclada ? My neighbourg has a "mud" bamboo along the river, it has a hole in the rizhomes so i know it's a "mud" bamboo but i'm still not sure what specie. I'm thinking of Atrovaginata or Heteroclada. It's dark green so i think it's an Heteroclada but i'm not sure, the Atrovaginata seem more like clear green. The first year the culms feel like sand paper when you touch them from bottom to top.

[@jochen.allardice-grein]

Hi, to your question, It is difficult because both are part of the "Heterocladae" section with in Phyllostachys “family”. An Idea would be to have a look at the Artovaginata. The first year culms have the white “powdery” line on the node. That would be the only way I can think of just now. have a look and let me know.

[@andersnrregren9087]

Close to the big 1k sups/buttercups