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Good story LadyFisher, I'll admit I also gave it a go. It was hard enough getting the plants in the first place but getting them to grow was another matter entirely. I tried here in the red clay of the rainy north Georgia mountains and down south in the sandy plains - nuttin' Funny thing is, it grows like a bad weed in the Sui River Valley of China. Oh well, I guess we'll let the Chinese have this one ... at least for now.
Bill O.
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We do have bamboo in our yard here, (west of Seattle) and some is 30 feet tall and has a diameter which one would think to be enough.
I have seem culms from Demerest at Gray Rock in Graying several years ago, so I have an idea of what it should look like. The species is Golden Bamboo. I have one which has been drying for a year now, and since we're close to the water and whatever humidity, it's the right color, but I don't think it is really dry. I'm not a rod builder, just curious as to what it might produce in time.
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LadyFisher, Publisher of
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Bill O., just visited your site and you sure do some beautiful work. Work like that makes icons out of folks.
Leo
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Hi,
As far as I can tell, there's a rodmaker here, there, or somewhere who has tried every species grown in the US, or most other places, and had a great time doing it. There's something to be said for experimentation... H. L. Leonard probably never would have found the Tonkin cane in his daughter's parasol without that drive. And a lot of them are fishable, from reports I've heard or those experiments I've cast at getherings, depending on the type of fishing (like in the Calcutta story above) or your level of satisfaction, or even your joy at using something different.
Bill Harms, extraordinary rodmaker from PA, had a neat rod made from unsplit Japanese cane that happened to grow in a usable taper.
The Argentine cane, as far as I know right now (anyone else ?) is not allowed for import as raw cane.
We even have a tiny bamboo growing here in Maine.
Kat