The Bamboo Ranch

zenflyfisher · Post by **zenflyfisher** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:07 pm

I think I stick to buying my cane and grow something more useful like hops.

Post by **Troutgetter** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:20 pm

Hops...yes! And it's a legal cash crop! GP looks ideal for it too!
I hear getting into the hop co-op isn't easy though.

zenflyfisher · Post by **zenflyfisher** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:33 pm

Yes Brother Mike GP was the place for hops. Have a huge old hops farm on lower river road about 5 miles from my farm. Now the yuppies have moved in and started winerys all thru the valley but thats cool to. No worrys about getting into the hop co op. All mine will be for personal consumpution. Beeeelch. Plan on having a few cascade and willemette next season.

Post by **Troutgetter** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:32 pm

Damn!
Home grown hops!
It's good to have friends!

I'll be more than happy to review each and every batch you brew up brother! And so there's no misunderstanding EVERY review will absolutely be positive!

Post by **adam** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:08 am

Beer does make a better rod!

I was provided with THIS link to a maker who uses another type of bamboo for his fry rods.

Bamboo Sourcery

[images care of bamboosourcery.com]

PURCHASE: Arundinaria amabilis

Madake-Phyllostachys bambusoides

Bambusa textilis

Bamboo Sourcery: List of species for sale

zenflyfisher · Post by **zenflyfisher** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:39 pm

Brother Mike
When you make it here for the stonefly hatch next year I'll bring a batch to the Holy Water

Post by **adam** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:43 pm

I ordered a 1 gallon Arundinaria Amabilis plant to be shipped to our home. Looks like we are going to give it a shot...

HortonCreek · Post by **HortonCreek** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:35 am

What about the bamboo that Marcello Calviello grows and uses down in Argentina?

Post by **SnooKen** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:53 am

Marcelo has been making some fine rods from his native cane for a long while now and the reviews of his rods have all been positive. There's a bamboo nursery in the SE US whose website I visited a little while ago. I'll track it down and post a link here. Also a guy who grows giant species in a wooden form to give the stalks a specific shape then turns 'em into decorative bowls/planters/pot kind of things. I'll see if I can find his link also.

Here's a link for the American Bamboo Society Scroll down the home page menu and click "Species Source List. On that page's menu click "Bamboo Suppliers List" for links to a ton of growers' websites. Poke around the Society's website and there is a ton of species information. And, guess what, the taxonomists have reclassified Amabalis, it is now officially Pseudosasa Amabilis.

www.americanbamboo.org

Lewis Bamboo.....a pretty neat and informative site of a commercial grower

www.lewisbamboo.com

Post by **adam** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:57 am

...specific species if you can Ken.

I want to grow a few types at home.