Growing new bamboo plants a new bamboo will take approximately three years to establish but can take upwards of four years to achieve the maximum size of culms dependent on the species climatic conditions soil sun water and health all of which play a big part in bamboo growth as with any other plant.
Bamboo tree growth 5 years.
Finally after five years the bamboo starts growing and in six weeks it grows to over 80 feet tall.
Watch bamboo growth video.
Each following year under good growing conditions the bamboo planting will grow new shoots which will grow larger and taller.
In the second year again no growth above the soil.
We live in an amazing time period where we utilize and love over 1400 varieties of bamboo worldwide.
While most trees grow steadily over a period of years the chinese bamboo tree doesn t break through the ground for the first four years.
But then what happens on the fifth year is just awesome.
The only thing you know is that the result is supposed to come in 4 years.
It can take up to 10 years for the bamboo planting to reach full maturity in which the new culms produced for the season will grow to their largest height and diameter.
This grove was started in 1992 and over the next three years had large 5 to 10 gallon size field dug divisions planted.
A 5 year timelapse movie of a tree growing in my backyard.
And what growth it is.
In fact in a period of just five weeks a chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet.
Yes 80 feet in six weeks.
And finally in the fifth year behold a miracle.
Then in the fifth year an amazing thing happens the tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate.
The chinese bamboo tree grows 80 feet in just six weeks.
It is 80 feet in five years.
Our patience is tested and we begin to wonder if our efforts caring water etc will ever be rewarded.
You keep watering and keep waiting.
One morning you wake up and see a small bamboo sprig then the next day an even bigger one and in 5 weeks it has grown up to 90 ft.
This may not sound like a lot of growth for three years but at a five year level you should have 20 to 40 culms canes 3 4 inches in diameter and 20 feet high under good growing conditions from a single bamboo planting.
If you had given up for even the shortest period of time there would be no bamboo.