Bamboo plants?

Question

does anyone know how long it would take a bamboo plant to grow 3 ft. or how tall they could grow?

Answer 1

Bamboos can grow about 4 feet in under 24 hours, if they get the right conditions. They need plenty of water in a well drained, fertile soil to grow optimally. They also like the sun.

There are approximately 91 general and about 1000 species of bamboo around the globe. These vary in height from about one foot plants to giant bamboos that grow over 100 feet.

Answer 2

they really grow fast and out of control. the only way to get rid of them once out of control is to have some one to dig them up with a front end loader. they have long root system. cutting them back only makes it worse.

Answer 3

Bamboo grows relatively fast, it can grow 3 or more inches a day. But it can get out of control if you don't contain the roots.

"Once established as a grove, it is difficult to completely remove bamboo without digging up the entire network of underground roots." or create a physical barrier that extends bellow the ground...

Answer 4

There are so many species of bamboo a correct answer cannot be given unless we know specifically what kind it is .  Some is called timber bamboo and grows 12" in one day.  If you are speaking of Lucky Bamboo it really is not bamboo.

*********There are over 1200 kinds of "bamboo*******

http://homepages.hawaiian.net/madmonk/ba...

Question: Is Lucky Bamboo a True Bamboo?

No the association with good fortune that gives so-called "lucky bamboo" its name derives from the use of the plant in Feng Shui.

Answer:

The real name of lucky bamboo is Dracaena sanderiana. Afficionados of Feng Shui use lucky bamboo as a houseplant

http://landscaping.about.com/od/tropical...

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Matt H.......You need to study up on bamboo

************Running vs. Clumping:***************

There are basically two kinds of bamboo:(( running,)) which is native to temperate regions in China and Japan and comprises the majority of bamboo in cultivation, and clumping, which comes originally from tropical and subtropical areas.~~~~ Running and clumping bamboos, as the names imply, differ in the way they spread. Running bamboo develops several-foot-long rhizomes (underground stems and surface runners) which send up many new culms along their length, in just one growing season; while clumping bamboo develops short (few inches long) rhizomes which send up only one new culm at their tip. And this is how bamboo got its bad reputation...

Running bamboo in invasive*********Clumping is not invasive.

Open the link and read and learn before you direct people in the wrong direction

http://www.berkeleyhort.com/plants/p_bam...