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John got this three at crank back up again. Good for him. My Moso should be starting to come up now... I'll try to get some pictures and see how it's doing this year. My black bamboo after many years has finally started getting some decent size to it. it's normally considered more ornamental...

No, but that would be doable. I have made several tripods for holding various things over the years...lanterns, cooking pots, gongs, blower to fan a fire.

That's nice...Now I just need a creek to try that.

That's exactly what I thought..got it covered. I even have someone who will plant them (in the dark of the night) so he will be pleasantly surprised when they pop thru the earth in March...maybe April. :/: Yes, Jerry...many times I have used a piece of re-rod or broom stick or another piece...

Thanks, Leon...that Moso grove is becoming a nice place to visit. There was an owl roosting there for awhile...we found some good pellets. Here are grandkids in the Moso grove.

Time to bump my thread... Last April, when the bamboo was in its growth phase, I used some to help my grandson, Hayden, understand face cuts and dropping trees. That was about a 40 foot piece of bamboo he felled. A seven year old with a Silky is a dangerous thing!!! The first picture is where...

hahaha...didn't know that...good to know.

OK...a LITTLE derail is OK but I don't want my boo thread to start becoming a hoochie mama hemp thread:D Y'all know way more about MJ than I ever considered wanting to know. All I know about MJ is that she was HOT and was Spiderman's girlfriend.

Double :lol::lol: Thanks for cross posting that, Burnham...a good read and a very good laugh. Hey, Chris...PM me your address and I'll send you some roots when I send MB some. :P

Jay, you are GOOD...I have some black bamboo planted at Dad's, too...called Phyllostachys Nigra. And it does grow rather slowly and the diameter is on the small side...it has taken about 8 years to get 1-1.5 inch diameter. It makes a nice hiking stick. This is the outfit where I bought my...

A friend bought a boo bow...very beautiful bow..I never got to shoot it. Excellent work on your part.8)

Here is my grandson (in blue shirt, not tie dyed) and two cousins playing in the Moso a few months ago, probably May, when the culms were just growing up. You can see the new "socks" (my word) or sheathes at the base of the new culms where they just grew.

There are some "clumping" bamboos that don't spread.

I had forgotten we once made a trebuchet from bamboo in Scouts...we threw a small pumpkin about 150 yards after we learned how to aim/release it. But the learning curve to successful launching was a bit interesting. We learned with water balloons...at first we threw a water balloon about 200...

Heck, yeah...exactly what the thread is about...what can be done and is done with bamboo. Good find, very cool work. I'll have to find the palanquin we made once.

haha...I'll see if I can cipher how to isolate and dig a small starting plant in the winter...I think that is the best time. I'll do some reading on it and let you know...the new plants come from the roots that spread during the cool/cold weather and early spring. I'll see how I am supposed to...

I think so...I had some growing for several years in the back yard in a muck bucket..about a ten gallon bucket...there were 5-6 plants in it, maybe 6 feet tall. I had planted it in the yard at first but later that day got scared it would spread too much and replanted in the muck bucket. I had...

There is a good chance it will...some species grow in the Himalaya Mountains. There is a LOT of info here...have fun...maybe you can grow some, too. http://www.bamboo.org/GeneralInfoPages/BarnhartIntro.html and here is info on bamboo in snow: http://www.bamboobob.com/?p=16

Hahaha...what am I going to do with it? Probably same thing my good friend, Ricky, told me once...I asked him what he was going to do with ANOTHER firearm he was buying...had about 10 already...he said, "possess it!!" For real, though...I"ll let our Scout troop use some for building...

For those that love bamboo or are just curious about it...here is a thread. We had one before, time to start again. Here is some Moso bamboo (timber bamboo) that I am growing at my father's...about 8 years old, I think. It has finally gotten some significant size, diameter and height. The...