Guadua Bamboo Plants for Sale
in Costa Rica

We offer Guadua bamboo plants for sale in Costa Rica to kick start your tropical garden, bamboo farm or commercial plantation. As you may have read on the website; Guadua flowers only ONCE in a lifetime (60-100 years) and dies shortly after. Because of this very unpredictable seed setting, it is almost impossible to grow bamboo from seeds, so buying bamboo plants will be your best and fastest option.

Check out the video below of our
Bamboo Nursery in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica

Guadua Aculeata Wall Thickness

Guadua aculeata flowered from 2008-2011, and we were able to collect large quantities of Guadua seeds before parrots and rodents ate all the rest. These seeds were all collected in Nicaragua and are now growing at our bamboo nursery in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica. The advantages of buying bamboo plants grown from seeds is that your bamboo seedlings will have a guaranteed life span of another 60-100 years!

The seeds we collected were from the species Guadua angustifolia subsp. angustifolia (common name: Guadua aculeata). Guadua angustifolia is extremely well suited for construction purposes or industrial processing (laminated bamboo products for example). They grow up to 25-30 meters tall and 8" thick (in Nicaragua, we have recorded Guadua's up to 1 foot in diameter).

 

Where does Guadua grow best?

Guadua is a tropical bamboo species, so they do very well all over Central America.

The optimal conditions to successfully grow Guadua angustifolia are:

• Between 900 and 1,600 meters above sea level (they will grow faster at lower altitudes but stronger ay higher altitudes).
• Average temperatures between 20°C and 26°C.
• Rainfalls of 2,000 - 2,500 mm/year.
• Relative humidity of 75 - 85%.
• Alluvial soils or dark loose soils rich in volcanic ash with high fertility and good drainage.
• Slightly acidic soil between 6.3-6.5 Ph.

Guadua Aculeata in Nicaragua

If you are considering to start a Guadua bamboo plantation, we recommend to measure soil samples with a simple Ph tester. The better the soil quality, the faster and stronger they will grow. In case of alkaline soil, fertilizers can regulate the soil.

Guadua has a sympodial-scattered rhizome system, which means they will not take over your garden but do take up some space, since it is an "open clumper". If you plant various Guadua plants, you should keep 5-7 meters of space between them.

Make sure to keep cows away from the newly planted Guadua's because they love bamboo as much as we do! Also if you are located at the Pacific region, irrigation might be required for new bamboo seedlings, at least for the first 2 years. See this article for more in-depth information about optimal climate conditions.

For more information, feel free to contact us.