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Bamboo 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 c
by Cerium 5y ago
Bamboo 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.