Did you know?

Several subtropical bamboo species can grow 30 cm (1 foot) per day, with some species having been documented as growing over 100 cm in one day.

holy shit!

a tiny bamboo plant of mine dies yeserday peacefully while I was at work! it was green when I left and now it's a piss yellow it will be sadly missed

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Originally posted by Sunsnail Did you know? Several subtropical bamboo species can grow 30 cm (1 foot) per day, with some species having been documented as growing over 100 cm in one day. holy shit!

I wonder if you can actually see it grow if you watch for a couple minutes.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov I wonder if you can actually see it grow if you watch for a couple minutes.

i would like a video of that


and yeah sunsnail, i knew that

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That'd be 41mm an hour if it was growing for a full 24hrs and not just during the day, so you probably could see it grow.

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Originally posted by dallastar a tiny bamboo plant of mine dies yeserday peacefully while I was at work! it was green when I left and now it's a piss yellow it will be sadly missed

same thing happend to me

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN dont argue with the yanks nutter, they know best!

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Originally posted by Sunsnail That'd be 41mm an hour if it was growing for a full 24hrs and not just during the day, so you probably could see it grow.

like, .75 mm a minute or, 0.0075mm?

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Originally posted by Ivand like, .75 mm a minute or, 0.0075mm?

whats the difference?

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Originally posted by eROs.au same thing happend to me

maybe it's the season. I dont' know where you live exactly, but it's cold here and the heat is always on in my hous e- maybe it's to dry

I have this other bamboo plant my friend bought me... fortunatly it is still alive - she was glad to see it was 0still living the other day when she was over, she told me that it was over 150 dollars I was like WHoa!!! it's braided and had grown so much!
come to think of it I have a lot of bamboo in my house....

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it looks like thisthe one on the left

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Last edited by dallastar on Dec-12-2006 at 03:39

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Originally posted by Sunsnail whats the difference?

take your calculator..

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awesome bamboo sculpture

EDIT: Sunsnail found this

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