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.
Bamboo tree growth 5 years.
It is 80 feet in five years.
In fact in a period of just five weeks a chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet.
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.
Watch bamboo growth video.
The third the fourth still nothing.
We live in an amazing time period where we utilize and love over 1400 varieties of bamboo worldwide.
You keep watering and keep waiting.
Each following year under good growing conditions the bamboo planting will grow new shoots which will grow larger and taller.
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.
And what growth it is.
If you had given up for even the shortest period of time there would be no bamboo.
The only thing you know is that the result is supposed to come in 4 years.
A 5 year timelapse movie of a tree growing in my backyard.
In the second year again no growth above the soil.
Our patience is tested and we begin to wonder if our efforts caring water etc will ever be rewarded.
The point is simple.
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.
Then in the fifth year an amazing thing happens the tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate.
And finally in the fifth year behold a miracle.
This grove was started in 1992 and over the next three years had large 5 to 10 gallon size field dug divisions planted.
The chinese bamboo tree grows 80 feet in just six weeks.
Yes 80 feet in six weeks.
A picture taken every week for 5 years to create this movie.