How To Propagate Clumping Bamboo From Cuttings

How To Propagate Clumping Bamboo From Cuttings. This practice should be continued till the cutting develops roots and fresh green shoots grow in the nodes. Drive the shovel into the bamboo root mass.

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Select the clump with the. Dig up the clump of bamboo. We chopped two 50 foot long culms (canes) of giant timber bamboo.

Select the clump with the.


Check around the outside of the clump of bamboo you are interested in propagating for small shoots growing along the edge. Pour some water (about two cups) to the top of the cutting. Pour two tablespoons of rooting hormone in a plastic bag and immerse the bamboo cuttings in it.

Clumping bamboo grows a tangled thick root mass in which individual culms develop from a single rhizome.


When one of the bamboos got wind damaged, i decided to propagate some more. Fill the tray with the potting soil and make. Culms were cut to size with a hand saw, placed in pots (mix of compost and “chook enhanced” soil) and watered.

Propagating bamboo from culm cuttings is one method used to create a new bamboo plant.


Shake off the excess rooting hormone and make several holes in Use a pair of secateurs to separate the new clump bamboo shoots, ensure that each cutting has 2 or more culms/stems. This layer acts as a disinfectant for the newly cut part.

A good old country boy, bernard, the haitan guy who helps out in the school nursery, taught knox haynsworth and me the simple trick.


To do it, dig at the edge of the plant, exposing the clump bottom. This primarily works with tropical clumping bamboo and not with tempe. Step 1, pick and sterilize the correct tool to cut the bamboo.

If your bamboo is heartier, you may have to use a handsaw.


Select a clump of bamboo that is overgrown or out of place. In must be kept under control with frequent root pruning, which makes it very easy to take root cuttings. There are two ways to propagate bamboo with the rooting hormone.

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