What's the world's fastest growing plant?
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Children grow best in a rich nutrient soil with high pH. Water once a week and prune in the spring. Harvest in late July.
They are hardy to zone 7.Have a patch of these .When they are teenager there is more chance to flower and be incedibile.1-3 is if u want them very tender .4-10 is the normal .11-12 is more fibrous
Edit: If you harvest them 13-20 you will see some devious stuff
@@user-om4mj2dw3e wow thats crazy because I saw spiders in the cellar... FREE ME
@@PLNTGMING How are they best cooked? Boiled? Pan? Oven? ... i do have a big oven
@@mr.v3061 any way,stir fried,boiled,oven.1-3 i reccomend raw .4-12 is best for cooking.
Man I didn’t now children grows from the ground
they count, if theyre in a vegetative state that is.
You’re clearly a child that doesn’t know where babies come from
Hahah that sucks
If you bury them ,they will
Now”
After watching this video I went out to the garden to spread seed to grow a child. The neighbors called the police…
Ah yes children, my favorite plant
maybe comparaison can be do with the human hair !
As a child i can confirm, i do grow on the ground.
I have a six month old mango in my bedroom. I can look up from the laptop after a few hours and see change.
Fun fact : Bamboo don't actaully -grow- per se, that fast, they're grown underground, but all folded segments on segments, and when a bamboo shoot pops out of the ground, it's actually already its adult size ! Then the bamboo shoot extends theses segments and it "unfolds" all the way up, like an accordion
oof, the power of plants man
YEAH!
Never heard of any plant that grew 0.3km in total, let alone per year. Don't you mean 33.238 mm per year? So 33 meters, that makes a lot more sense. Or are we talking about the root system?
91cm per day, it's ok. Insane but ok.
Yeah, I don't know who let that through. It is true that they can grow up to a metre a day, and someone extrapolated this over 365 days. They actually max out at about 20m.
It grows at a speed of 0.3 km per year, not to 0.3 km
The fact that bamboo is a grass, puts the whole watching the grass grow into a new perspective.
I dont think its fair to include adult bamboo patches growing, without including other connected plant colony systems like Pando a giant birch forest of clones that are connected
A singular bamboo plant growing from a seed is fast growing but not the fastest
@@doomsdoor Do you know why you never see bamboo seed for sale in packets at nurseries? Cause it grows so slowly at that stage of life that it's not even viable to do it! Commercially grown bamboo isn't grown from seed cause of what a waste of resources that would be
Which tree grows most by mass?
The fastest growing hardwood is considered Paulownia elongata at 10-20' per year. Around where I live green ash and white mulberry grows at least 3-6' in a given year depending on the site. Black locust is supposed to be the fastest growing native (to North America) however. The internet says it grows at a rate of 3-4' per year but I'm positive that's "undercutting" it (pun intended lol) since it says green ash is 2-3' per year and white mulberry is 1-2' and I could go take pictures of an ash that started growing this year already 5' tall and a white mulberry at 4'.
The most massive tree is the giant redwood - (_Sequoiadendron giganteum_). The largest specimen is an estimated 1500 cubic metres, or 750 dry tonnes.
well bamboo is a grass, not a tree, so I think it's fair we include other grasses too in order to answer your question & the answer is sugarcane. Total biomass per hectare per year, sugarcane outperforms everything.
C4 photosynthesisers (mostly grasses) such as sugarcane, consistently outperform C3 photosynthesisers (the vast majority of trees) in warm conditions. Paulownia elongata is commonly cited as being a C4, but there is a lack of evidence to support this classification, it appears to have just been assumed it's a C4, due to how fast it grows
@@mehere8038OP never said anything about bamboo though? He asked what _tree_ grows fastest and then you go off in a completely different direction.
@@person8064 like the video did you mean?
This just reminds me of the myth busters episode where they discovered that you can in fact grow a bamboo shoot through a person to slowly kill them.
Bamboo was used as torture device. Basically someone was chained to a chair with the bottom missing. A bamboo sapling was placed below them and let it grow through the victim
I wish we didn't stop using this method
@@user-om4mj2dw3e who's we?
It turns into bampoo.
HIGHLY unlikely that was possible. That method would allow enough movement for the person to be able to wriggle enough to cause the bamboo to be altered in growing direction to grow around them. The chained in a lying down position is more credible than that, but none of these claims have ever actually been verified
@@mehere8038It's an urban legend rooted (no pun intended) in the idea of the exotic Orient.
A friend had a potted bamboo on her covered porch. We left to go shopping and it was about 4" from the ceiling. We got bach and it was bent over from hitting the ceiling.
One of the fastest growing evergreen trees are Arizona cupressus more than 50 cm per year, also tasmanian eucaliptus around 100 cm per year, I have those trees in my garden, in a pretty dry region in Romania and after 3-4 years those trees which at the transplantation were 50cm tall, now are over 250-300 cm in height.
And pandas still decided to be critically endangered.
You didn't mention Kudzu, which only grows a foot a day but that's pretty fast as well.
i love this. bamboo is such a versatile plant..
poplar? eucalyptus? these grow insanely fast as well in comparison (not as the bamboo though)
Growth of bamboo isn't as it seems . Individual spears grow fast but they ain't individual plants , you have to consider them as like branches of the larger bamboo Grove . They get their energy to grow not from photosynthesis but the sugars and nutrients produced by the grove . A single bamboo stalk growing from seed won't be so impressive . Fastest growing trees I've encountered are wattle and Eucalypt trees . I read somewhere that elephant grass is fastest growing land plant but seaweed is absolute fastest growing plant .
Duckweed can cover a body of water in a month. Each plant being clonal
What about kudzu?
We don’t talk about Kudzu no no no-
Children grow as seedlings to plants in 20 years. Due to this they are known as slow growers and require lots of maintence.
What about seaweed?
Man I didn’t know bamboo grew to be over 300 meters tall
Isn't that like 100 stories tall?
@@leotsang4681 it’s a joke comment, don’t take it seriously
What about casava?
Fun fact (TW torture) back in the day they used to lay people sentenced to death over bamboo shoots and the bamboo would grow through them skewering them alive.
never actually been verified. There are definitely POW's bodies that have been found with bamboo growing through them, but it's never been verified as to when the bamboo began growing through them, whether it was the cause of death, or whether it happened between their death & bones being found
@@mehere8038 Ah okay. Thanks! I read about that like back in high school so I didn't know lol.
No way!
I wonder was hemp ever under consideration ?
Bamboo is my kind of plant, I am VERY impatient
If it grows so much then why are mine about 3 ft and had them for more than a year or 2?
Because the video is not totally right, bamboos from seeds take years to grow their underground part, then when this one is big enough, we start to see the upper part growing faster. If yours is in a small container put it in a bigger one. Some are slower than others and some giants could be really fast, depending on where they grow
you have real bamboo? or that fake magic bamboo?
Is it in a pot?
yeh, mine did next to nothing for about 3 years after I bought them. I bought them about 1 metre tall & they had really good rootballs on them, planted in my garden & watched them do nothing for years, then suddenly, one of them took off & really grew & bushed out. Second one has started to do that now, has some fresh, bushy growth on it to about the 1 metre mark, hopefully this spring it's going to follow the other & send up really strong, fat new stems & a tonne of bushyness too. Has been a LONG wait for my privacy hedge! I really needed 3 plants to cover the area too, but decided to skimp on costs, thinking I could easily divide to get the extra plant I needed.
I have put bags of peat moss on joints & doing that I've found will result in new plants when that part of the plant is then cut off & potted up, again a very slow process though, not really sure how long the peat moss has to be left on it for, as it doesn't develop any roots into it while on the plant for me, but if that is done for at least 6-12 months before cutting it off, it will then grow from the cutting consistently, however I have tried countless times to get bamboo to grow from cuttings & NEVER got a single one to take unless it's had that peat moss treatment first. All my cutting ones are still in pots & still doing next to nothing, first ones were only small though & certainly still alive a couple of years later. I have 2 new, large ones in progress now, will see how they go, first I cut off the plant about 2-3 months ago, at the start of winter & it has a really well developed set of roots now, but very few living leaves, second one I've only just removed from the plant, have kept stems much longer, nearly a metre in length, will see how that goes, fingers crossed it will establish well & be at least on par with the $50 bought ones within a few months of removing from the plant (was peat moss'ed on the plant for about a year, but as I said, zero roots on removal despite that)
90cm a day? Surely that can't be right...
Fun fact: Bamboo is Grass
Damn, I didn't get to say Kelp is not a plant :{
saying bamboo grows that quickly isn't really a fair comparison. the important growth is that of the rhizomes underground.
sure the culms mature quickly but it's not a fair comparison to the growth of trees. it's also a type of grass, not tree.
Now what kind of bamboo is the question?
Check out kudzu
As others in the comments have said, this is super deceptive/unscientific! You can't just pick a random spot in the growth cycle & act like that's representative of the whole! I mean I guess you're talking about how fast 4 year old bamboo grows? hence the 4 year old child comparison? A baby to 1 year old grows MUCH faster than a 4year old though doesn't it, while bamboo grows next to nothing in it's first 4 years of life, only after that does it start to really grow, it certainly doesn't grow to 330 metres tall in a year though does it!
C4 plants are the fastest growing, bamboo is c3, therefore can't even hope to compete with them! I have bamboo I bought about 5 or 6 years ago as a hedge & one of the plants has started to grow now & has reached nearly 2 metres high, the other is still under 1 metre & my hope of propagating from them to fill in the rest of the gaps is yet to happen, due to how slow it is to establish. In the meantime, I stuck the top of a piece of sugarcane into the ground to fill the gap & give me privacy & it took root & grew 4 metres tall the first year, second year I harvested & stuck the top of that plant into the other hole in my hedge & it grew to 4 metres tall in that year too, while the first one sent up 6 new stems that all grew to 4 metres tall, I harvested them, stuck another top in teh ground & the next year I had about 12 stems of 4 metres length, the following year about 20 stems, after which time i started cutting off a lot of the new stems, because it was too prolific, all while the bamboo that was SUPPOSED to be the hedge was doing nothing!
Ridiculous to say bamboo is the fastest growing plant! All my veggies grow MUCH faster than my bamboo too! I mean why did you even compare a grass like bamboo with only trees? It's not in ANY way related to trees! It's much more closely related to sugarcane than trees, but sugarcane IS the crop that produces the most bio-mass per hectare of any crop. Bamboo doesn't even come close!
Duckweed doubles in a few days!
So the birds and the bees was a lie?
I call bs on the bamboo
that's not really truth,you plant a bamboo an take 3 to 4 years to stablish a Ruth sistem them it shut a spears like sistem that's a unique sistem,and every year shut a few of those,as a tree the real deal is balsa .
And bamboo is invasive
duckweed is the fastest growing plant
Is no one going to talk about the fact, that they made a mistake in converting cm to km? 33,000 cm are 0.03km.
33,000cm = 330m = 0.33km
Marijuana are pretty fast growers too. Its just hard to measure cause the end up flowering.
(knock,knock) DEA, open the door!
Also, you dont really want it growing too tall, but more sideways, making it more bushier with bigger harvests :P
going to bamboo skipping cannabis ... wow
Yet I can't get these bamboo seeds to grow AT ALL
Better dont be a vegetarian. Or ur counted as a plant like in the video 😂
A lot of plants grow ridiculously fast. Even your garden variety vegetables can pile on inches at an insane rate. The thing with bamboo and others listed here is that it only does this for so long before it slows down, and, it may take a while to get up to this growth speed...
The difference is, these are hard, dense plants (woody, if you will). A garden tomato stem is rather weak and floppy by comparison, while bamboo makes for great flooring or is even used as a primary structural element in vernacular architecture.
@@TheSpecialJ11 um no, just no! Bamboo is a grass, it produces hollow or soft inside stems in the same way as other grasses such as corn & sugarcane. That is what it should have been compared to, NOT trees! Straw has been used as flooring & roofing & walls historically & hemp has historically been used to tie together materials like bamboo, as well as to secure ships, even Titanic sized ones because it has vastly more strength than bamboo has! Gourds & bamboo have been used interchangeably as water holders too, used dependent on what is native to the area, but as travel expanded, gourd seeds were moved around & began replacing bamboo as water holders, because they grow much faster & are more durable & long lasting as jugs & water carriers
@@mehere8038 What are you trying to say here? You do know most species of trees are not related at all right? It's a convergent trait to evolve lignin and cellose to hold a plant's body against gravity and winds.
So it's entirely fair to compare grasses to a tree, because trees are not one specific group of lifeforms, rather a large category of them.
I will hold however comparing a fast growing mostly underground based plant to a tree is unfair. A tree won't grow ten more trees after you cut it down. Nor does it have a carpet strategy. Tree's mostly focus on their maximum height, not their broad ground coverage. (otherwise they wouldn't have needed their hard metabolically expensive structures.)
@@Neoprenesiren so in short, you are saying that bamboo should have been compared to other grasses? Cause those are the plants that fit the description you just gave, aren't they! That is what I am saying, bamboo is a type of grass & so should have been compared to other grasses, NOT trees
@@mehere8038 The thing is most trees aren’t even closely related to eachother, the first trees like lepidodendron and wattieza were more closely related to clubmosses and horsetails than they are to any other trees. Bamboo, with its arborescent growth and woody stem, is admittedly sometimes debated as to whether it’s a tree or not due to the lack of secondary growth (which for the record would also exclude things like palm trees), but it is more certainly not comparable to regular grass, grass is most definitely not woody, what matters for bamboo’s growth in relation to grass is they both pre-produce all of those cells and then expand them with water, allowing the extremely rapid growth - they aren’t producing new tissue, simply making existing tissue larger.
Man growing children sounds hard. I heard the harvest isn’t that great either :/
yea, i mean, when the harvest is overripe is the worst
no no they harvest is great they harvest 100% of you money every day. ;)
planting them is great fun though!
Yeah cause the harvest window is only about 2 days cause if you harvest too early they'll be white on the inside but if you harvest them too late they'll be mushy
I like how they use a drawing of a lucky bamboo plant(Dracaena sanderiana) which isn't even a type of bamboo, also the spiral tip is just how they sell them at the store, they don't naturally grow like that lol.
you must be fun at parties
@@Covid-me1xf Damn straight, like real bamboo!
@@Covid-me1xf He isn't wrong though, he's pointing out an obvious deception that kind of undermines the entire credibility of the poster. Obviously its a minute long video meant to be fast and interesting, but it should at least stick to truth. For example, it doesn't even list the type of bamboo that grows like this. Which is doubly bad considering they pictured a commercial product.
no he isnt wrong, also the people pointing out a human child is not a plant aren't wrong. Lots of Einsteins here today. @@Gongall
@@Covid-me1xf Its a reference bro lmfao, massive difference between using something common as a reference point and then using false and misleading illustrations.
as I understand it, the bamboo spends its first years developing a deep root structure, then at like the 7th year it rockets up like that.
bamboo are not a tree ! Its in family of Gramineae, Poaceae like wheat :)
They are cheater :)
but it's a plant as the title says @@larietournelle7904
That root system is certainly dense. Few other plants grow around a bamboo Grove .
tree isn't conected to any specific famiily of plants, it's just a word humans use for plants that grow very big and woody so it doesn't really matter @@larietournelle7904
Bamboo needs specific conditions to grow like that. If the conditions aren't met, fast-growing plants usually just die. Slow growers are normally less picky.
Makes sense. More growth would mean more nutrients being used. If that soil isn't top notch then bamboo will die of starvation easily, sounds like.
Interestingly, this is sort of how glyphosate works. "When plants are exposed to glyphosate, they are unable to produce certain amino acids that are crucial for their development. As a result, the plants expend their stored energy rapidly in an attempt to grow, which eventually leads to their death."
@@BenjaminGoose agent orange is actually a much better example for what you are trying to say, it doesn't prevent any amino acids, it just provides additional plant growth hormones, causing it to grow at such an accelerated rate that it becomes too elongated to support it's own weight & dies as a result
I am growing bamboo in a location where it is never grown. First year was extremely slow, now we are entering its second summer, and it really grows fast, not as fast as in video though. Just water every 2 days, in poor rocky soil..
@@officersoulknight6321 From what I've heard, bamboo grows most of its tissues and cells early on - which starts as a slow-growing stage; then, it spends time filling these pre-existing cells with more water and nutrients to make them larger, rather than making new cells - which causes its fast-growing stage.
Haha now you can actually technically watch grass grow as bamboo is a type of grass
I was just about to say this, now I gotta find a banana tree video
The real genuine continuously fast grower is elephant grass . Bamboo only has a ten week growing period then seems to store energy for another growth spurt the following season.
Nothing beat bamboo except bamboo modified to grow faster
Bamboo doesn’t grow 300m per year: it tops at about 30m.
Try to post less. You only make the internet worse.
Kudzu grows ~3/4 as fast as bamboo. A lot of not-trees grow much faster than trees; bamboo for example. It's a grass.
Former neighbour grew kudzu that killed most of my plants :(( those things grow like a foot overnight. Oh well, he's a *former* neighbour for obvious reasons. Don't miss him one bit. Kudzu is invasive, please don't do that.
Did the kudzu kill him or did you?
Giant kelp: *yawn *
Woahh!!! Didn't know children are a plant, I'll be sure to bury them next time! Thanks
"plants and trees grow at different speeds"... trees ARE plants. I understood what the sentence meant but it would have been better to put it in another way. Nice video, cheers!
9,1 cm a day not 91 which is still very impressive
It actually can grow almost a meter a day. But firstly it will grow the roots and spread for some years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo
9.1 cm a day is 3,285cm per year or 33 m per year which is only even 0,0033km..
"Am watching paint dry. Ha! Too bad am watching baboo grow"
Which bamboo species is the fastest ?
Genera Bamboo
Bamboo
the bamboo species that is the fastest is the bamboo species
Moso bamboo.
@@xilnoi my grandpa planted a bamboo and it spreaded and smashed the concrete around it lmao at my parents old house
If we talk mass instead of height, some of the Euphorbia species can give bamboo a run for its money.
Facts to Bamboo: While its growing so fast, earlier in Time People use this as a torture Methode. They hang the victim with the stomatch look to the ground and plant a Bamboo under the Stomatch. So its make the way torugh the stomatch while its growing.
What a terrible day to have eye
@@iMauTeN Relax lad, he was talking about the disturbing fact, not about you.
haha its already proven that bamboo grow up fast and strong enough to breakh trough things look other videos!@@user-om4mj2dw3e
Mad hostile reaction lol
@@iMauTeNfrom that anger we can tell you're german
Love the fact a child is included in this
Kudzu in Japan…
Wot, no kudzu?
This is why bamboo products are so much more economical than traditional paper products. It grows so much faster! Think of how many trees it would take to equal one patch of bamboo.
Stop feeding the trolls. Soon they will ban all bamboos in the West, because it is too beneficial for the climate.
bamboo are hollow
um it's not more economical at all, hence why paper is NOT made of bamboo as standard! there are other elements involved in production, bamboo takes a lot of chemicals & processing to make it suitable. Sugarcane is actually the economical option that is becoming a feature of a lot of single use paper products nowadays, such as paper plates, cups, cutlery etc. Sugarcane produces more biomass per hectare per year than any other crop & the great thing about using it for plates etc is that they are best made from the pulp, after the sugar has been extracted from it, ie from the waste product, so VERY efficent option, now that people have figured out the processing systems to turn that into products (that like bamboo, still require chemicals etc)
@@mehere8038 It's because bamboo doesn't grow everywhere. Once it does, Bamboo as a substitute to common wood would be more beneficial to the environment.
@@BSnicks no, it's not because of that at all! Bamboo is a type of grass, with over 1000 different species & grows in conditions from snow to tropics. It's growing range is far more diverse than any tree species, due to how many different species there are within the term "bamboo". Native bamboo species are found on every continent, other than Australia & Antarctica. It is also found as native species on a lot of non-continent islands, such as Fiji & has been on other islands, such as Hawaii, since the Polynesians brought it there, along with the first human arrivals.
Processing bamboo into something we see as usable paper today however, is FAR more difficult than doing the same with wood, cotton or hemp pulp.
As I already said, the most beneficial option for the environment today would be sugarcane, since it grows MUCH faster than bamboo & only the waste is needed to make products such as paper, with the crop being able to be grown for food or bio-fuel & fully used as such & then the waste turned into paper instead of being burnt, as is currently the practice for most sugarcane pulp waste. There is no good reason to grow crops of bamboo specifically to use as paper when there is suitable materials currently available & being burnt!
Banana plant stems are another plant fibre waste growing in use because again, they are waste products currently burnt, but able to produce high quality paper & cloth type products. Menstrual pads is one of the biggest uses of banana plant waste right now
Use inches like civilized people and why didn’t you include fast growing trees like mulberry and cottonwood.
It may be one of the greatest carbon sinks when you think about it.
Hemp is faster. Hemp can be harvested for fiber in 4 months, bamboo take about 4 years.
I would say for the Bamboo, because it grows 80 years.
Just a reality check. Where does bamboo grow 1000 feet a year? Temperate, ie. running bamboo grows quickly over about 3 weeks in spring and clumping bamboo grows fast for 2-3 months. Otherwise, bamboo does not grow taller, unless the culms are growing.
I suspect Bamboo only grows this fast from a root mass. If you grow it from seed I strongly doubt it is this fast. Let's compare apples to apples; Oak and Birch when coppiced or pollarded produce a secondary growth that returns very quickly. Measure that and compare that because bamboo is cultivated in a similar manner to coppiced or pollarded plants.
I pruned a child once. Since it was a Texan child I just blew its arm off with a shotgun so I wouldn’t get in trouble. My defense was I thought the child was a plant. Case dismissed on the grounds I was taking care of a child and exercising my Second Amendment rights
Bamboo grows for 2 to 3 years underground before couming out the ground, it grows his rings and they just extend when ready, so it's not really the fastest growing plant, you need to talk about fastest biomass producer
Yeah, but bamboo is not a tree.
It doesn't really matter. As long as it takes away H2O and CO2 that we have plenty of on Earth because of fossil fuel consumption.
The only thing is you are comparing bamboo(grass) to trees. Do this video again but only include grasses for a more informative video.
I think this video has one of the most beautiful aesthetics i've seen
Kudzu should be in this list also, but I guess because its a vine?
No, because this came from the BBC and it may be too chilly in Britain to think.
A foot a day.
given all are trees except bamboo that's a grass, a vine shouldn't exclude it (and this is all before we mention that a human child somehow ended up being included too). They just cherry picked to give the results they wanted though
Don’t be surprised if you got called short by a living bamboo
Lies just watched several time lapse videos of bamboo talk about 16binches in 40 days
And here I used children as fertilizer. Silly me, maybe I should use them to fertilize bamboo.
Bambi is not a tree, it belongs to the flower family poaceae which is the grass family.
Ah yes, my favourite plant, children
You forgot my f*cking Zucchini. Have not eaten anything else for one Month.
In the hopes of helping reduce co2, could we make Bamboo grow faster?
What type of bamboo grows that fast? Obviously not all of them grow at that rate.
Seaweed!! Kelp is the fastest!! Can grow about three feet in one day!!
Bruh my garlic plants grow 1 foot a week when they were just planted
Its that bamboo is the fastest growing plant
Crazy that Kudzu isn’t on the list. That stuff is like the plague
Children are plants so I get to eat them while calling myself a Vegan.
Ah yes my favorite plant, CHILD
Most Eco-friendly Of Bamboo..
Missing Kelp, which can do 45 CM per Day