Arundo Harvesting with Bill Hartin Gardens of Ventura County:Arundo Harvesting & Building
Important environmental sustainability/envir. restoration video on the proper & legal harvesting of Arundo from sensitive stream …
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Important environmental sustainability/envir. restoration video on the proper & legal harvesting of Arundo from sensitive stream …
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This thing about male and female plants – is not completely true. They grow differently depending on climate, but generally the strong canes with side shoots are the older reed, or sometimes the late season reeds with flowers. The plant is a hermaphrodite, there are no male and female plants.
We have some of them where I live, in a somewhat cold climate. Here, a number of plants die back every winter, but some of them survive, and they invariably get side shoots, but because of the climate they do not flower at all. They lose their original leaves and then only have leaves via the side shoots. At the same time, new shoots comes from the Rhizomes.
You can see the young shoot here – they never have branches at the nodes:
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Here are the older culms, they all have all of their leaves as new shoots from the nodes:
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The older culms are much harder than the younger culms.