>What can you make with it?
Surprisingly effective knives. The bark has silica grit which acts like tiny glass saw teeth.
Also traditional deer scares, which are my favorite functional garden decoration.
You’re a turboBlack person if you plant it, especially in a residential area. Once it gets established it doesn’t stop growing and is hard to contain. I used to be a landscaper and had several clients where I had to constantly cut down bamboo because their neighbor thought it would be cute to have a bamboo grove in their backyard and then it spread to their neighbors’
Can confirm (I was one of these turboBlack folk, I thought it'd be a good alternative to a hedgerow). I bought one of the supposedly non-spreading kinds, which turned out to be a lie. Still spreads, just slower. Ended up tearing them all out, roots and all. The roots grow through root barrier fabric, fyi.
You’re a turboBlack person if you plant it, especially in a residential area. Once it gets established it doesn’t stop growing and is hard to contain. I used to be a landscaper and had several clients where I had to constantly cut down bamboo because their neighbor thought it would be cute to have a bamboo grove in their backyard and then it spread to their neighbors’
Depends on the type. I just toured the Tobasco factory in south Louisiana, which has a 10 acre bamboo forest made of giant timber bamboo. That’s in hardiness zone 9a. Here’s a video where it was being cleaned up.
this >20 years ago my neighbour planted bamboo >it grew over to my garden and beyond(before I moved in) >try to stop it as best as I can >my other neighbour doesnt trim it or care >now get gangraped by bamboo coming from two sides
It looks somewhat cool though but whatever
>You’re a based eco terrorist if you plant it, especially in a residential area. Once it gets established it doesn’t stop growing and can't be stopped by man. I used to be a guerilla gardener and had several clients where I never had to replant bamboo because their neighbor knew it would be based to have a bamboo grove in their backyard and then it naturally re-wilded their neighbors’
Yep. I was considering planting some to function as a natural fence and to harvest free stakes for my tomatoes or running peas up or whatever. But, very rudimentary research let me know that would be a VERY bad idea. Also, I did some driving around and you never see a neat little row or a tiny patch. That shit always grows into a jungle and deeply invades neighboring property. I had a coworker once who was CONSTANTLY having to chop it down and eventually had to run a backhoe over it and years later they still somehow had little bits always trying to pop up that they’d take a shovel to.
Its the ideal plant to grow as a hedgerow on your residential property. Important to get the running type. As big a species as your climate zone will permit. Theres some asian species that will do 10-15m in zone 6-7. The neighbours want to grow grass? No problem.
Also ideal for gorilla gardening. Plant them into areas that look like they dont get cut back too often.
Excellent building material. Long straight and strong poles. The young shoots are edible.
Bamboo is superior to wood in every single way
It grows fast
Can be used to make complex stuff that you can't make out of wood
Literally make anything and everything out of it
Relatively strong
You can eat the shoots if you're desperate enough
Really light weight
Any questions?
Yes, only its round and you can harvest it yourself with a handsaw. No milling required.
It's also stronger than a 4x4 and longer than any milled lumber you can buy.
Bamboo is a grass and contains a lot of silica. This makes bamboo unsuitable for use as a kitchen cutting board or like because it dulls your knives fast.
I lived in the jungle, bamboo is survival on easy mode. It's got a bunch of unique properties, any of which would individually make it valuable. >hardness
If fire hardened property it's VERY hard. You can drill into other wood with it, make adze heads with it, use it as a spear or stake, it's incredibly wear resistant so you can use it as rails or a veneer, it's low friction so you could use it as a non load bearing axle like a water wheel or windmill. You can sew with it or use it as a awl, it's better than bone. >splits into flat pieces
Forget building anything with any other material. Use bamboo as decking, to weave walls and roofs, use it as planks, you can weave it into armour. Make baskets, use it as wicker. It doesn't rot either so it's invaluable as a light building material >strong fibre that doesn't rot
If you prepare bamboo correctly you can use it as a self hardening tie. Better than zip ties. So you can tie your bamboo frame with bamboo to hold a bamboo roof tied with bamboo, to support a water mill made of bamboo with a bamboo axle. >hollow
Make a pot, a kettle, a jug, ferment food in it, protect dry goods in it. Use it as a water weight, use the hollowness as a kind of carpentry join, plug one bamboo into another. Make a bamboo gutter or aquifer. I've seen kilomiter long aqueducts made with nothing but bamboo. Even having PVC they prefer bamboo because it's UV resistant and more durable, it's easier to work with. >water source
In the jungle clean water is very hard to find, many bamboos store potable water and you can just drill into them >barbed wire
There's a few evil bamboos with thorns, you can use them as barbed wire. Great for penning animals where you don't have a solid fence. >rattatan
Solid bamboo, super light, hard and strong handles and wicker. A rarratan spear is a deadly weapon, possibly the best wood in the world for a lot of applications. >leaves are non toxic
You can use bamboo leaves for farming
But as a gardener, let me tell you not to plant bamboo. It consumes a truly bizarre amount of water, which isn't returned in plant matter, if you put it around a pond it will empty the pond.
It's highly invasive, very, very hard to remove manually and herbicide resistant. The roots are destructive (in relative terms) and animals can't generally control it. Don't fricking do it.
As everyone else says only a turbo Black person plants bamboo, it's not as bad as kudzu or knotweed but those are the only things I could compare it to. Blackberries don't even come close
PrepHole isn't a search engine
homie yo mom is a gotdamn search engine. I put my dick in her and she was searching for my cum
you should bring a shovel, but not sure there is much left of her (she´s been dead over a decade)
>Redpill
>What can you make with it?
Surprisingly effective knives. The bark has silica grit which acts like tiny glass saw teeth.
Also traditional deer scares, which are my favorite functional garden decoration.
Makes nice comfy temperate forest in a hot place. Grows like a fricking weed, because it is. You want the fat stuff not the shitty grass stuff.
You’re a turboBlack person if you plant it, especially in a residential area. Once it gets established it doesn’t stop growing and is hard to contain. I used to be a landscaper and had several clients where I had to constantly cut down bamboo because their neighbor thought it would be cute to have a bamboo grove in their backyard and then it spread to their neighbors’
Can confirm (I was one of these turboBlack folk, I thought it'd be a good alternative to a hedgerow). I bought one of the supposedly non-spreading kinds, which turned out to be a lie. Still spreads, just slower. Ended up tearing them all out, roots and all. The roots grow through root barrier fabric, fyi.
Frick yeah, then what did you build out of it?
Depends on the type. I just toured the Tobasco factory in south Louisiana, which has a 10 acre bamboo forest made of giant timber bamboo. That’s in hardiness zone 9a. Here’s a video where it was being cleaned up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=pyP_teX27Hs&embeds_referring_euri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bamboocentral.net%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
It depends entirely on the type of bamboo. But yeah, a lot of it grows like a weed. I’d suspect the more common types do.
this
>20 years ago my neighbour planted bamboo
>it grew over to my garden and beyond(before I moved in)
>try to stop it as best as I can
>my other neighbour doesnt trim it or care
>now get gangraped by bamboo coming from two sides
It looks somewhat cool though but whatever
>You’re a based eco terrorist if you plant it, especially in a residential area. Once it gets established it doesn’t stop growing and can't be stopped by man. I used to be a guerilla gardener and had several clients where I never had to replant bamboo because their neighbor knew it would be based to have a bamboo grove in their backyard and then it naturally re-wilded their neighbors’
Yep. I was considering planting some to function as a natural fence and to harvest free stakes for my tomatoes or running peas up or whatever. But, very rudimentary research let me know that would be a VERY bad idea. Also, I did some driving around and you never see a neat little row or a tiny patch. That shit always grows into a jungle and deeply invades neighboring property. I had a coworker once who was CONSTANTLY having to chop it down and eventually had to run a backhoe over it and years later they still somehow had little bits always trying to pop up that they’d take a shovel to.
Its the ideal plant to grow as a hedgerow on your residential property. Important to get the running type. As big a species as your climate zone will permit. Theres some asian species that will do 10-15m in zone 6-7. The neighbours want to grow grass? No problem.
Also ideal for gorilla gardening. Plant them into areas that look like they dont get cut back too often.
Excellent building material. Long straight and strong poles. The young shoots are edible.
Black person are you trying to jangle our jhonsons because I'm mad
Bamboo is superior to wood in every single way
It grows fast
Can be used to make complex stuff that you can't make out of wood
Literally make anything and everything out of it
Relatively strong
You can eat the shoots if you're desperate enough
Really light weight
Any questions?
>And here's my 4x4 of bamboo
Yes, only its round and you can harvest it yourself with a handsaw. No milling required.
It's also stronger than a 4x4 and longer than any milled lumber you can buy.
how do i start growing giant bamboo?
begin by removing all giant pandas in your area
the zoos will be angry but it's the only way to be sure
noted, what is the most effective way to hunt or trap pandas?
bamboo spike traps
it's kind of a catch-22 situation unfortunately
Bamboo is a grass and contains a lot of silica. This makes bamboo unsuitable for use as a kitchen cutting board or like because it dulls your knives fast.
imagine grass but big
I wanted to bash this but it's one of the few somewhat original posts.
If you're in a colder climate look up phylostachys atroveganata (hur) and musa
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I lived in the jungle, bamboo is survival on easy mode. It's got a bunch of unique properties, any of which would individually make it valuable.
>hardness
If fire hardened property it's VERY hard. You can drill into other wood with it, make adze heads with it, use it as a spear or stake, it's incredibly wear resistant so you can use it as rails or a veneer, it's low friction so you could use it as a non load bearing axle like a water wheel or windmill. You can sew with it or use it as a awl, it's better than bone.
>splits into flat pieces
Forget building anything with any other material. Use bamboo as decking, to weave walls and roofs, use it as planks, you can weave it into armour. Make baskets, use it as wicker. It doesn't rot either so it's invaluable as a light building material
>strong fibre that doesn't rot
If you prepare bamboo correctly you can use it as a self hardening tie. Better than zip ties. So you can tie your bamboo frame with bamboo to hold a bamboo roof tied with bamboo, to support a water mill made of bamboo with a bamboo axle.
>hollow
Make a pot, a kettle, a jug, ferment food in it, protect dry goods in it. Use it as a water weight, use the hollowness as a kind of carpentry join, plug one bamboo into another. Make a bamboo gutter or aquifer. I've seen kilomiter long aqueducts made with nothing but bamboo. Even having PVC they prefer bamboo because it's UV resistant and more durable, it's easier to work with.
>water source
In the jungle clean water is very hard to find, many bamboos store potable water and you can just drill into them
>barbed wire
There's a few evil bamboos with thorns, you can use them as barbed wire. Great for penning animals where you don't have a solid fence.
>rattatan
Solid bamboo, super light, hard and strong handles and wicker. A rarratan spear is a deadly weapon, possibly the best wood in the world for a lot of applications.
>leaves are non toxic
You can use bamboo leaves for farming
Cont.
But as a gardener, let me tell you not to plant bamboo. It consumes a truly bizarre amount of water, which isn't returned in plant matter, if you put it around a pond it will empty the pond.
It's highly invasive, very, very hard to remove manually and herbicide resistant. The roots are destructive (in relative terms) and animals can't generally control it. Don't fricking do it.
As everyone else says only a turbo Black person plants bamboo, it's not as bad as kudzu or knotweed but those are the only things I could compare it to. Blackberries don't even come close
>if you put it around a pond it will empty the pond.
why do i find that hilarious
Because they already look like straws. It's like gods are drinking the pond