[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Future bamboo problem? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 10/5/2004 2:00:59 AM EDT
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Here at work several people have the bamboo plants. If you havent seen them you can get them for a few dollars at most flea markets and some grocery stores. Im thinking these might cause a problem in a few years or so when people get tired of it, or think its dead and throw it out probaly in the yard so they can keep the little pot it comes in. Bamboo is not something I want growing in or near my yard thats certain, I expect most people who have deal with it before will agree with me. |
Yep, I had some growing in my back yard, my stupid next door neighbor just planted them into the ground instead of putting them into a container. I took me something like 6 months of pulling and probably a gallon of that weed killer to get rid of it. Bamboo is really hardy stuff and really really hard to get rid of. |
Yea I dont want to see how alot of people tossing this stuff out might spread it. |
Does it spread fast like that ivy crap? |
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The silly little "lucky bamboo" things that people are buying all over the place now aren't bamboo. They look a very little like it, but they aren't really a species of bamboo. ETA: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/azgard/msg081900168272.html http://www.americanbamboo.org/FAQ.html
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Gardenweb. Nice. My wife posts there sometimes. Shes the plant freak, not me so I wont pretend to say one way or another. I do know she has a cool ittle verugated bamboo thingie in the little vase thingie that looks like those bamboo thingies they sell in the store except it has white stripes around the leaves. Its a cool thingie for sure. |
Panda's only eat certain kinds of bamboo! We had acres of that stuff growing in the southern end of the county where I grew up..the national zoo would send a truck down every so often to haul it up the road. OTOH my godmother was stuck with acres of the crap that they wouldn't eat. |
Still, it would be cool to have a Panda roaming around in my back yard! |
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What's your ethnicity? |
I was under the impression they were corn plants. |
Look, the only thing I know about bush is how to hit it, lick it and split it ok? Gimme a break here fellas!! 
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110% white, bordering on transluscent. What the hell does my ethnicity have to do with bamboo growing in southern MD that was fed to Panda's in the National Zoo? 
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 I don't know either but I'm dying to hear this one! I have it in my yard (my neighbors had it first) and I'm white 
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It must be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. I remember a story on 60 Minutes or 20/20 or something like that back in the early 80's about how kudzu was threatening to engulf the entire South and drive all other life from the planet. They were trying so hard to whip people into a paranoid frenzy you would have thought that it was going to topple governments and interrupt welfare payments. |
Me too! |
Me three!
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Me Fore 
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Speaking of kudzu, I just visited my in-laws in Chattanooga, Tennesse and the kudzu had enveloped thousands of acres of huge trees. It looked like a leafy blanket thrown over the trees. It was sickening. I assume it will kill all those trees eventually because it robs them of sunlight. Edited to add: I'm white. |
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Me and my little bro had to use a 2 ton ratchet puller (like for boats) to get it out of the yard we moved into in 2000, the yard took almost 3 years to get back to normal That stuff that people have in the office is lucky bamboo and not actual bamboo. My wife had some and it is different stuff. Not as hard to kill and will never get that tough with roots etc. |
Me five. Can I get a six? |