Balcooa Bamboo Plant

Listing ID #3419063

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Product - Plant Tissue Culture – Bamboo - Balcooa

Variety - Bambusa balcooa or Female Bamboo
Balcooa King is a thornless, fastest growing variety. It is the tropical clumping bamboo often used as a food source, scaffolding and in paper, pulp  industries. This variety consists of culms on an average of 12-22 m high with 6-15 cm diameter. Nodes are thickened. Leaves are narrow and are 15-30 cm long and 25-50 mm broad. This variety is used for making Agarbatti sticks; Construction. This is the most preferred species for making edible products.

Bamboo helps in Carbon sequestration. Shoots of the Balcooa King is consumed as a vegetable and its leaves are used as a fodder.
Advantages Of Tissue Culture:

• True to the type
• High market value
• Healthy and disease free
• High biomass yielding plant
• Throughout the year plantation possible
• Energy can be generated
• Better survival
• Field performance tested         

Habitat And Agronomy

• Soil Type - Grows on any type soil; prefers heavy textured soils with good drainage. Soil pH should be low of about 5.5
• Climate/Temperature - Prefers tropical monsoon climate with an annual rainfall of 2500-3000 mm. It grows up to an altitude of 700 m.   Preferred temperature is 22-28 °C but can tolerate 9 - 35 °C
• Variety - Bambusa balcooa
• Time of Planting - Pre – monsoon
• Spacing - 3 m x 3 m; 4 m x 4 m; 5 m x 5 m
• Days to Flowering - Usually flowering happens at 35-40 years
• Harvesting - 6 – 8 years; Harvesting should be done in non-rainy months
• Yield per plant and per acre - 100 Kg per plant; 40 tons per acre