In an earlier post, I was monitoring the growth speed of a new bamboo plant. I found that the first shoots were growing at about 13cm per day. But, of course, that rate would have to slow down at some point.

One month later, here is a picture of the same plant:

It measured at about 2 meters tall for the past week or two, so that is the height it stopped at before beginning to grow more leaves and flesh out a bit. Not as tall as I’d hoped, but 2 meters in under a month is still a pretty fast growing plant. Now, I suspect, it needs to grow thicker to support itself in order to grow any taller. I’m curious how long that will take.

Interesting, we got 3 other variety of bamboo from neighbors that we have tried planting. And one of them is actually about 2 meters tall after less than 2 weeks. But I suspect it is in the same boat, needing to thicken out a bit before growing much taller.

Side note: that bunch of green at the bottom are a dense patch of papaya seedlings that grew from the soil we planted around the base of the bamboo. This almost certainly comes from the fruit trimmings we’ve been collecting for composting. We will have to separate them soon if we want any of them to survive, I think.