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carpenter374:
hey all. i was wondering, if i have the room and good soil what sould plant to grow a steady supply of arrow shoots? i considered red osier. im not sure how fast a plant could produce a few arrow shoots. let me know what you guys think.

Pat B:
Red osier would be a good choice.  Depending on where you live silky dogwood, gray dogwood, arrow wood viburnum and black haw viburnum, mock orange, and probably any of a bunch of multi stemmed shrub type plants will work as arrow shafts. With most shoot and cane you will need to allow at least 2 years of growth for the stems to mature before harvest for arrows. With only 6 or 8 plants, you could have enough shoots each year for your own arrows plus enough to trade.     Pat

markinengland:
Japanese arrow bamboo may grow OK. Takes a few years to establish.

Hillbilly:
Switch cane, silky or redosier dogwood, hazlenut, arrow wood viburnum, or Japanese arrow boo are all easy to grow and yield a lot of shoots. Like Pat said, it takes a few years to get them established and mature, but once you do, you can harvest them every year.

markinengland:
It is quite possible that there are arrow fields in your areas. Where the power companies clear trees under powerlines is a good palce to look as lots of straight shoots come up. A small area can yeild 50 or so shafts.
Mark in England.

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