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If you were doing the hardened wood process on it, you wouldn't even have to wait 4 years for the culm to lignify, since you were just going to delignify it wit
by kleton 5y ago
If you were doing the hardened wood process on it, you wouldn't even have to wait 4 years for the culm to lignify, since you were just going to delignify it with a hot chemical bath.
- dan353hehe 5y agoYep. I saw a sibling comment after I posted that mentioned that. It seems like a nice way to skip an additional step! Thanks for point that out! Also during the 4 year wait for it to harden it doesn’t increase in size. So there wouldn’t be a decrease in the amount of bamboo harvested, it would just allow it to be harvested every year instead of every 4.
- Cerium 5y agoBamboo is already harvest every year. Every year new shoots come up out of the ground. The shoots start to form in the winter about one meter away from mature culms. In the spring the shoots emerge from the ground and quickly grow to full height. Changing the harvest schedule will not increase the availability of bamboo, since already all new culms are harvest, just after they become four years old - the system is steady state.
- dan353hehe 5y agoInteresting! I didn’t know that. Thanks for the correction!
- itronitron 5y agoExactly, and during years two and three the culms are adding energy back into the rhizome/root system enabling future shoots to emerge.
- ricardobeat 5y agoIf you harvest all of them at once, you have 4x the amount, since each generation gives space to a new one instead of sitting around for an extra 3 years.