Black Bamboo Tree

I bought 4 of these, “expecting” by plant reputation to have a quickly grown shade in front of my window from where not far from my planting location a previous tree had been taken out by storms. Several of the initial stalks had already been cut at roughly the purchasing height or shorter, and I wasn’t too happy about that. Moving on from initial reception, I had done some research, but not all concerning the bamboo’s growth patterns. I had prepared to contain it properly with 2 metal L shaped barricades set up boxing in the window, filled the area with soil mix, and evenly spread out the 4 plants throughout. Unlike reputation and sales pitch, observation and then later additional research revealed that they hardly grow their first year while the system is trying to establish itself (it did, however, require very little maintenance other than keeping it watered during dryer seasons). Now, we shall fast forward to the season spring that it has been planted. New stalks started, in various sizes and diameters, to gradually pop out of the soil once it warmed up. Once I watered it and then the spring rains began to hit, THEN they finally began to take off as originally stated by reputation, with new stalks sprouting all over in clumps and quickly rising (some of the stalks reached as high as the edge of my roof in less than a week, once the rainwater hit and they stayed wet). Thankfully, I have yet to see any of them breach my barricades to get into the yard, so they are growing in places where and like they are supposed to without causing me issues. Currently, the plan and progress so far is to trim them once each stalk reaches roughly the height of the window, then it had been fun watch the leafing vegetation grow out from the topped stalks after that (it’s too early for any of the new ones to be black, but the stalks themselves vary in diameter from about the size of a pencil to the larger ones are bigger around than my thumbs). There is still a number of months of possible rain ahead, and I’m excited to see what it does now with an established root system (which so far hasn’t choked out the nearby elephant ears that were also planted last year to accent alongside the black stalks).

Its a beautiful tree and took only a couple days to recover from the shipping. Im impressed, now for me to keep it looking good.

I was pleasantly surprised, all arrived alive and well and have been doing very well since only has been a couple weeks and have grown a lot taller and filling out nicely already as well. Should grown into a nice privacy screen pretty quickly at the rate they are growing so far.

So far so good. I have been watering like heck with all of the heat over the past month. Initially, the intent was to ksep it in a container. It was latsr planted in soil. A few new shoots have geown up since receiving. Thanks!