hey there Scott Wallace computer ventures calm and today we're gonna propagate some bamboo you know it's been a while since I've done a video and recently was just this last Saturday I took a division of my gender columnist validus and it was probably close to about thirty feet tall you know what so here we go okay so what you're gonna want to do is you see the branch note here the branching comes out it cut about one to two inches below this and then leave pretty much about the same on every cutting and you go from there kinda already have a set up on this one here see that's about two inches there make another cut hopefully this camera is a vibrate so what you're left with is a division here and if you got a lot of branching on it like this other one here so if you got a lot of branching on it what you want to do since this thing has no roots obviously it's just a piece of stick now with some branching on it and try to route it what you're going to do is trim back almost cut back all of this here until you're left with just one section of branch all your routing is going to form around this branch node should come out and in a few months got some pictures on the website of other rooted cuttings I've done like this and you pretty much plan them in in this case here I use a peat perlite mixture and you can see here in this container here about 12 actually 12 exactly from another section I chopped up and once you have them in the dirt and you have everything the branch node buried down in there you know fill them off done if you really see this but kind of see the water glinda there keep they filled up with water kind of like a tea glass and what that does is it keeps the the cutting moist keeps it from drying out because like everything else when you're doing cuttings moisture is key to success this medium here kind of squeezed it it's wet a little bit of water not a whole lot you kind of hear it squishing a little bit that's kind of what you want you don't want it super set your you don't want it mud at the same time you don't want it to dry out so I'm going to put these in the greenhouse we'll come back and hopefully about two or three months we'll see something going on it what you're really looking for obviously you want the cutting two standards color this green color here it may brown a little bit down don't give up on them some of the leaves might drop off in this case this was putting out a new leaf here and this may die off so here's a bamboo Sulaco I did about a month ago these came similar methodology I sold the division of it and as you can see here the color still have the green color on the on this pieces of the comb and you actually have new growth coming out right now on these so I wouldn't say necessarily these are rooted but they're definitely not dead this one here kind of see how it browned all the way down that one may be a goner this one here a little bit of discoloration but overall like I said the hope on this one the easy kind of see the difference here but it's still green a little bit of new leaf girls starting to come out of it so hopefully it'll be successful and hopefully about two or three months I got anywhere from twelve to sixteen new downer calamus ballasts that's it any questions I'll leave a comment below or feel free to visit our website www.investmentpitch.com