Day 36: In Which We Are Shocked And Awed

So here's this morning's picture. We've dubbed our first growth "Chute 1." Two other chutes have popped up (Chute 2 and 3, respectively) and while they're still tiny, we're expecting great things.


Chute 1 is totally huge. We've calculated that it's grown an average of four inches/day. The picture below is from this morning:


This one is from Wednesday:


And compare it to this one from this morning (using the trowel as a unit of measurement).


Another thing to note is that the grayish "skin" that's been covering the bamboo is starting to come away - as evidenced in the following picture:


And here's a long-shot, just for kicks.



Finally, we promised a web cam and a new logo: check it out here for now until we get the blog template updated. We're still having some issues with the web cam, but you can see what we've got going so far.

Day 34: In Which We Go Dot-Com And Show Major Growth

We're all dot-com in this place. Welcome to the new projectbambusa.com (http://www.projectbambusa.com)!

So last week was pretty exciting. We had our first chute sprout our lone root (dubbed "Root A"). Everybody was in shock. We all stood around the box, looking at this tiny sprout with our collective mouths agape. Egads!

One week later we return from the Thanksgiving Holiday and this is what we see:



So awesome.

The very next day we come in and we see this:



Seriously, y'all. That's, like, two inches in one night. Fantastic.

So now we're working on a webcam. That should be live tomorrow. Here are some more pics - the first is Travis trying to make the software work and the second is a pic of the webcam itself.




Tomorrow we're going to get the webcam up and on this site. Also, the Project Bambusa! logo will make it's first high-res debut.