T S Rodriguez wrote:Hi everyone,
I am growing a few groves of bamboo. Yellow and Rubro. I want to get some Bissetti sometime, but none yet. So far so good, everything is growing well, and feeding animals in the winter, according to plan.
However, bamboo is known to go to seed periodically. Nobody seems to know when exactly, and when it goes to seed, it dies. The whole grove dies. This can be devastating to communities that are based around bamboo, which would include my small livestock plans. So far my bamboo is fine, and I have never met anyone who had a grove go to seed. I am wondering if anyone has ever experienced this, and how long it took the new seeds to re-establish themselves, or any species that are immune to this cycle.
I am hoping to get at least three species established here, in the hopes that if one goes to seed, I can keep the others, etc. Are there other strategies or ideas out there for mitigating this?
Here is an article about it.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/09/the-mysterious-phenomenon-of-bamboo.html
Michele Holmes wrote:Hello, I just joined this group and saw your post. Are the puppies still available?
Malek Beitinjan wrote:I have once again made a stool, and it's much larger this time. Several folks have mentioned that these stools tend to crack as they dry, so I used a very large hunk of log for the seat. It's very sturdy, thanks to the weight.
Beau Davidson wrote:
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Mike Haasl wrote:What about a parallel "Permiestarter" campaign in the digital marketplace. People can support on Kickstarter (and kickstarter gets their cut) or they can click a link and go to permies and back the project through the digital marketplace.
Then people can set up affiliate codes for the permies.com side of the project to share it around the world. The hard-as-hell part would be collecting the data needed to fulfill the non-kickstarter backers when it's all said and done.
paul wheaton wrote:Not many people buy DVDs these days. And it used to be that I would have to buy a minimum of a thousand to get "the right kind."
Instead, I hope to, in time, set stuff up so that somebody will offer the movie on a DVD after it is all done. So you might get it later than everybody else, but you would get it as a physical dvd. I think.