Guadua Bamboo Plants Costa Rica

If you are interested in growing bamboo plants in Costa Rica, than we have the perfect planting material to kick start your tropical garden or plantation. Due to the strict regulations for importing live bamboo products into most countries around the world, we do not export bamboo plants outside our Costa Rica Bamboo Nursery (sorry folks).

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

As you may have read on our website; Guadua flowers only ONCE in a lifetime (80-120 years) and then 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.

Guadua Aculeata Wall Thickness

However, Guadua flowered back in 2008-2009, and we were able to collect a batch of Guadua seeds before parrots ate all the rest. These seeds were all collected at our plantations 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 100 years!

The seeds we collected were from the species Guadua Aculeata, which is very similar to Guadua Angustifolia but with thicker walls. Guadua Aculeata 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. We have seen them grow at the Pacific and at the Atlantic side.

However, the ideal conditions to successfully grow a healthy Guadua plantation are:

• Between 500 and 1,500 meters above sea level (they will grow faster at sea level but grow stronger on higher altitudes).
• Average temperatures between 17° and 26° Centigrade.
• Rainfalls of 1,200 - 2,500 mm/year.
• Relative humidity of 80 - 90%.
• Alluvial soils that are rich in volcanic ash with a moderate fertility and good drainage.

Guadua Aculeata in Nicaragua

If you are considering to start a Guadua bamboo plantation, we would recommend to send soil samples to a laboratory or university first. The better the soil quality, the faster and stronger they will grow.

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. See this article for more information about planting Guadua.

We offer Guadua Aculeata seedlings at 5$ (3/4 galon container).

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 make sure to sufficiently irrigate the new bamboo seedlings, at least for the first 2 years.

Go to our: Guadua Diary on Facebook to see more pictures of the Guadua Bamboo Plants in Costa Rica.

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