Day 40: In Which We Proudly Display Our Logo

Day 38: In Which We Realize That Spelling Isn't A Strength

Henceforth, "Chute 1," "Chute 2" and "Chute 3" will be renamed "Shoot 1," "Shoot 2" and "Shoot 3."

Because it turns out that "chute" is definitely not the same thing as a "shoot." Whoops.

Signs, etc. will be remade as time allows.

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.

Day 25: In Which A Sprout Is Sprung!

OMG OMG OMG OMG....

LIFE!!!

Day 19: In Which Nothing Happens

Just wanted to get a picture of our future planter online. It's still sitting on the loading dock, waiting to be opened and emptied so that we can convert it into a bamboo-growing container.

Here it is!

Day 18: In Which We Create A Better Home

Since our last update the bamboo has been growing all together in a single garbage bag-lined cardboard box. Two stalks with root-balls and a giant hunk of root. The planter that we've been building was completed today and is ready for its first resident.

We've decided that the giant hunk of root will be moved to the new planter and the stalks will remain in the cardboard box for now.

We ventured forth to the Home Depot to get more potting soil. It was raining and, needless to say, these Little Dudes got wet. When we arrived back at the office we got the new soil to our location on the second floor and went to work. With little mess, we got the giant hunk of root transplanted to the new box. See it here:



We've been discussing that it might be a while before we see any growth. In fact, it could be months before we know if this hunk of root pans out. It could die and we'd never know. Rufus indicated that they generally sprout in the spring, but we think it might be sooner since we're growing indoors.