Re: [Shaku] bamboo

Hello Brian and Kel,

>".... it takes about 30 years before a grove
>produces shakuhachi worthy bamboo. If anybody knows otherwise please
>inform, because I hope that's not correct...."
Ahum, so I'll be 72 when harvesting....maybe I'll have to consider this my
longest zen exercise :-)

>Probably correct in that it is not a rapidly spreading plant and the
>diameter of culms varies. Few culms are of good diameter, many of which
have
>sulcus grooves.
Aha, madake also has sulcus grooves, Kel, which percentage of the culms
don't have grooves?

> To get a 'grove' established is "yes" going to take quite a time, but
>of this years new culms there is one very likely candidate. Give that three
>years to mature and two to dry......in five years I will hope to be able to
>do it justice.
So this would bring it down to a 10 year experiment. Well I've got the right
location, soil, horsemanure mixed with dried hemp and ash from the woodstove
as fertilisers ... the rest is up to nature.
Thank you all for the input,
Igor

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