http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/ Group concerned with issues related to bamboo plantations. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:26:30 GMT Tom Harlow http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9827 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9827 Someone's nice picture of guttation. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibnuyusuf/2238626147/in/set-72157603610206807/ --Tom Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:03:20 GMT Aslandra http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9826 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9826 Hmm. I am wondering whether or not the Guttation might be used as a source of fragrance and nectar for bees, since its composition depends upon species and Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:19:23 GMT Roberto Neumann http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9825 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9825 To all members, Please, stop talking about bamboo honey. It is a meaningless idea. All bamboos, like many thousands of grasses are wind pollinated and lack Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:35:10 GMT shahed khan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9824 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9824 Bamboo is of interest to me because it can meet the energy needs of the country,by carbonizing & trading in briquettes & in the community where besides being a Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:01:35 GMT Roberto Neumann http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9823 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9823 To all members, Bamboo honey is a real misleading name, since it is related to "japanese bamboo" or "japanese knotweed" which is Fallopia japonica belonging to Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:30:18 GMT Jinhe Fu http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9822 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9822 Years ago one company in Shanghai phoned the possibility to use bamboo flower to produce perfume and I told the company it's not feasible. Regards Jinhe in Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:54:45 GMT zenovato http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9821 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9821 Doug and all-- Buckwheat is not a grass, but it does produce flowers that are highly attractive to bees. Bamboo flowers lack nectaries for producing Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:51:03 GMT Susanne Lucas http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9820 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9820 I posted a response to the bamboo honey question and it did not appear on the bamboo-plantations group, so I guess I need to repost this directly to you: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:43:34 GMT zenovato http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9819 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9819 Hello Susanne and all--- "Bamboo honey" is produced from Japanese knotweed. Apparently it is somewhat of a regional term of the Northeastern United States. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:42:50 GMT Daphne Lewis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9818 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9818 Thank you Kinder! Guttation. That is the word my memory was looking for. Daphne Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:57:59 GMT Txbooguru@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9817 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9817 In a message dated 11/2/2009 6:51:30 P.M. Central Standard Time, daphne@... writes: Diamonds in the groves. The term for the moisture droplets on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:50:59 GMT Daphne Lewis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9816 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9816 I wonder if there are sugars in the exudate at the leaf tips. I can't remember the name of this phenomenon of sap flowing out the tips of the leaves. I wonder Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:39:22 GMT Knapp http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9815 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9815 I really wondered why he wants bee honey? -- Douglas E Knapp Why do we live? Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:37:36 GMT Amit http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9814 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9814 Hi, I have a bamboo plantation in about 20 acres in Maharashtra ,India.Bamboo flowers when it is about to die.This happens once in 60/70 years after which the Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:14:49 GMT susannelucas@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9813 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bamboo-plantations/message/9813 Hello all - I replied to Bruce but thought someone out there could have other answers. My reply was that bamboo rarely flowers - so finding a large grove in