sacred bali bamboo wanted

[lquade]

is anyone growing this in puna who wants to sell at a reasonable price, or who would like to trade for wampin? i cant believe the prices people are asking for bamboos when they propagate so easily.. anyway i am looking. thanks! oh also have the yellow with the green stripe could give in trade...

[durian]

I moved to HI from Belize and also suffered the shock of high plant prices. In BZ anyone will give you young banana plants if you dig them yourself, or the pineapple plants that come out just under the pineapple. In HI everyone wanted to charge me several dollars just for a banana plant. If we are talking about an approach grafted artocarpus or some other difficult to propagate thing, the price is justified, but for the plants you would just throw away anyway, it felt unfriendly, I must say.
Possibly the sellers of unusual bamboos paid a lot to import the variety?
Scott on Railroad in Kapoho has given me a good deal on bamboo propagation material. He is an open and honest guy too, so if he has it and the price is high, he will explain why he charges so much. I don't have his phone number but if you go down there, folks can point you his way.

[riverwolf]

Durian, just wondering what part of Belize you are from ? I spent time in Placencia. " Turtle Inn" was one of my projects. I too chose B.I. over Belize for many reasons.
namaste.

riverwolf

[missydog1]

well, I don't see why it's unfriendly or unreasonable, if I've paid a bunch of money for a bamboo plant, to want to recover some of that cost if I sell it. Sacred bali bamboo cost me $250 marked down from $350, as did the bambusa lako. That was only a couple culms, but some good root development. I don't think I've ever paid for bananas, but I either got them from close friends or I got them with a property.

So my feeling is that it's unfair to expect people to give you something for five bucks when they paid fifty times that much. I wouldn't expect it. I've spent thousands of dollars on bamboo on the Big Island, of various species, and certainly I wish it had cost less. Typically it is no less than $50 for a gallon or two gallon plant of a fairly common variety as Quindembo bamboo goes. What I bought was always the result of carefully shopping for the most bang for my buck too, and getting some price breaks for being a good customer.

I wish you all good luck in finding the good plants for free or very cheap. Maybe I don't get them because I don't ask, rather go to the nurseries for mine. (I have two clumps of sacred bali now. One I got with the property, and I paid a lot for that! The other we propagated from the original sacred bali that I had bought for $250, grown into a big clump, and then sold with my old house. We managed to get one culm to propagate, and the others died. It's not easy to dig a piece of root out when bamboo is growing in lava rock.

[durian]

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Originally posted by KathyH

well, I don't see why it's unfriendly

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I think we agree here, Kathy. I hope you didn't feel that you were accused of being unfriendly. If I have all the banana mats I want and I have a mat that has 10 suckers and you want to cut off 6 for yourself, you will be doing me a favour. I shouldn't charge you for that. If I am throwing away plant material and you come along and ask for it, I would give it to you. People have given me many plants in many places, but not so much in Hawaii. I have happily paid for difficult to obtain plant material and charged for it too, when selling. I don't think it is unfriendly to charge a lot for a very difficult to obtain bamboo. I don't know much about bamboo propagation. Is it expensive because it is difficult to propagate, or difficult or illegal to ship propagation material from its native region?

[lquade]

i certainly am not knocking income for plants either, as a gardner i buy alot of plants. i also give alot of plants away when the jungle begins to intrude. but when i see a "rare" heliconia for big bucks that i can share with aloha for friends i do it in a minute. i give plants away on freecycle, to new neighbors, to members of my groups etc. never hurts to ask, and i have given away alot of bamboo as i find it quite easy to propagate. so if someone wants to trade or let me dig, i think asking is "okay". if you chose to spend thousands on bamboo, that is also "okay".