Congo
Hortus Capensis was contracted to supply and plant 160,000 Dendrocalamus asper in Gimbi, Congo.
We supplied bamboo plugs to a shade house nursery that we setup onsite.
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The plants were grown on and hardened to the local climatic conditions
At the onset of the rainy season the plants were planted out into the plantation
beginning late 2012 and commencing 2013.
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The video below was taken in Oct 2015, almost 3 years after planting
Below harvesting the first culms at 4 years
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| Pic taken - Feb 2016 |