I put out three more guaduas in the extreme windward hedge today. That makes four, which at maturity should make a good spacing. I thought about squeezing one more in there, but in the end I think that four is good. I transplanted the Brandisii that hasn't done much there. I probably tried to get more divisions out of it than were there, 3, and maybe only 2 will take. We'll see.
Thought a lot about pulling up the albociliata's, but held off, as Greg did say he would help and he probably would help me to do a much better job. For the time being they are sheltering the little guadua's. It felt a little bit like a step back putting in these little guadua starts when the albo's are already getting established, but they will eventually be much bigger. Be interesting to see if the guadua's establish there a bit more quickly too. I never did find out from Brad what he did in the way of soil amendments, but I dug big old holes about 5 feet across by one and a half feet deep and filled them with cinders and compost, with dynamic lifter, seaweed meal, preplant plus and azomite, so I am fairly confident that when they get over the shock they will burst out of the ground. I also mulched the hell our of them with a whole truckload of straw between the four. watered them in with the 200 gallons of water caught off Geoff's roof...
Most of the koa's in that area are doing okay, but I noticed sadly that a few of the casuarina's, the "front rowers" have died off. maybe because they are getting the worst of the wind, and they are in tall nahiku...