These shoots emerge out of the ground and grow in height and diameter for around 60 days.
Bamboo tree growth time lapse.
The time lapse video below for example also mentions a growth rate of up to 1 meter a day for the chinese moso bamboo phyllostachys edulis.
In the second year again no growth above the soil.
As the shoot elongates it develops into a new culm.
The third the fourth still nothing.
A three week period compressed into one minute showing emerging shoots of dendrocalamus giganteus bamboo.
The entire growth period from new shoot to a full height culm can typically be completed in 30 days.
Watch a young phyllostachys rubromarginata grow.
After the 60 day period of growth the bamboo cane never grows in height or diameter again.
During this 60 day period it will produce limbs and leaves.
In its first year we see no visible signs of activity.
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Like any plant growth of the chinese bamboo tree requires nurturing water fertile soil sunshine.
Bamboo produces new canes culms in the spring.
New branches and leaves grow from the nodes of the new culm.