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During winter I tried growing Chimonocalamus pallens seedlings. They are quite demanding and grow slowly at first, but after they establish, they get crazy. It's up to 8 m high and around 3 cm diameter clumping bamboo. I hope I can get at least one of them see it's potential.

hello,

How many seeds you have sown? At what time? Month and day.
What were the conditions of semi? Temperature, light, etc. ...

Thank you for your answers.

( I used a translator )

I planted about 30 or 40 seedlings, some of them were damaged but sprouted anyway. I planted test seedlings (the larger one on photo) on 30. 8. 2012. I kept them inside, protected from late summer sun that was strong enough to kill them. I managed to get 3 seedlings out of 5 seeds, but one of the seedlings decided to die without coming out of the soil and one of them got eaten by a slug. Remaining one is getting vigorous with warmer days and a lot more sun.

Well some of the 30 seedlings in 'round 2' that sprouted on 26. 2. 2013, died right away, some of them are still fighting and there are a couple of seedlings that are doing exceptionally well. Here in our part of Europe, we've had only a couple of weeks of warm and sunny weather, which means all the seedlings were kept under LED light (20W), without normal sun exposure. Now I take them out from time to time, so they can get used to wind and sun exposure. They are doing well.

Like with all bamboo seeds, I used wet paper towel method. When sprout emerged, I planted them into plastic cups with drainage holes on the bottom. I used no heating, temperature was around 20C, I used 20 W (cheap chinese from aliexpress ) cool white LED bulb. When weather report predicted sunny weather, I placed them behind the window to catch at least some natural light which was almost never this year.

Sorry for English language, I hope translator can do it's job well

Thank you for all that information.

It is good to know of another way to sow and conditions.

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