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❀ Seed treatment:
- Remove the seed pods may facilitate germination.
- Place the seeds for 15 minutes in a glass of water with 10% salt. (Dissolve a portion of salt to 9 parts water). Rinse
- Change the seed to clean water without chlorine and let it stand for about 24 to 48 hours.
❀ Sow: (Bamboos can be planted through out the year)
- Use a 50/50 mixture of perlite and organic substrate or soil / plant, moistened to the point where you can barely squeeze water from it.
- Place the mixture of soil perference in seedbeds with lid or in a plastic box Tupperware-style with transparent cover.
- Cover the seeds with the same mixture of soil, a layer approximately 1 to 2cm and put the box in a horizontal place.
- It is essential to keep the seedbed/box in a place where temperatures are around 20º to 30º C (28 to 38º C for the Gigant Bamboos)
- It is also essential to control humidity inside the box so that it remains high. Open twice a week to allow fresh air.
- Check the soil, don't let it dry but do not exagerate when watering, spray regularly with dechlorinated water.
❀ Care of new plants:
- Germination will begin to occur within 2 to 3 weeks.
- Keep the lid to maintain high humidity and improve seed germination. As soon as new plants begin to reach the cover, remove it to facilitate growth.
- Seeds will continue to germinate until 4 weeks after the first seed to germinate.
- The new plants will grow rapidly in the case of Moso bamboo, about 10 cm in the first months under ideal conditions.
- After the first month you can transplant the new plants.
- When the new seedlings are about 2 to 3 months you will see new bamboo shoots growing thicker and so on, as the roots keep developing.
- Seedlings of 1 year of age vary in height between 30 and 60 cm.