The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World

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  • Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it shares with all grasses and its unique cell wall layering adaptation, allowing it to shoot up to 100 ft (30m) in just 8 weeks.
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    - Rhizome: a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and roots at intervals
    - Vacuole: an organelle within the cytoplasm of a cell, enclosed by a membrane and typically containing fluid, whose main purpose in plants is to maintain pressure against the cell wall
    - Microfibrils: fiber-like strands consisting of glycoproteins and cellulose that make up the cell wall structure
    - Auxin: a plant hormone which causes the elongation of cells in shoots and is involved in regulating plant growth
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    Nonami, Hiroshi. "Plant water relations and control of cell elongation at low water potentials." Journal of Plant Research 111.3 (1998): 373-382.
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    Gritsch, Cristina Sanchis, Gunnar Kleist, and Richard J. Murphy. "Developmental changes in cell wall structure of phloem fibres of the bamboo Dendrocalamus asper." Annals of Botany 94.4 (2004): 497-505.
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  • @MinuteEarth
    @MinuteEarth  4 ปีที่แล้ว +609

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    • @JackBoy-cq7uf
      @JackBoy-cq7uf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi

    • @savagemaster9814
      @savagemaster9814 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello I LOVE THR CHANNEL

    • @patjsd
      @patjsd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So how much carbon does it sequester if it grows fast?

    • @Salvanim
      @Salvanim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is there a plant that had cell devision and cells that expand?

    • @Aries_Army
      @Aries_Army 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MinuteEarth oh man I love the wings of fire series I can’t wait for book 14 to come out!!

  • @jethrowu27
    @jethrowu27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3354

    Fun fact: some places in the world, such as Hong Kong, use bamboo for construction scaffolding, even for skyscrapers

  • @haniyasu8236
    @haniyasu8236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3943

    Wait, so if grasses grow by inflating their cells, if you cut the grass, how does it keep growing? Does it replace the cells it lost? But wouldn't that then make it grow slower?

    • @nbibby
      @nbibby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +296

      Anvil yeah I’m curious too. Off to google I go

    • @mosar52
      @mosar52 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1741

      Grass grows because the dividing cells are situated at the bottom of the plant near roots unlike most other plants that have it situated at the top. That way even if the grass is cut or eaten, it can grow back as long as it has enough nutrients.

    • @haniyasu8236
      @haniyasu8236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +274

      @@mosar52 ooohhhhhh ok. Thanks for saving me the google search! :D

    • @queenfopsie5442
      @queenfopsie5442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +183

      @@mosar52 kinda like hair follicles? (Except the rest of the grass is still alive near the top)

    • @Aquatic25
      @Aquatic25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I never knew that

  • @watergamer6446
    @watergamer6446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    Trees: I grow higher through a special process called mitosis, where I make one cell into tw-
    Grasses: *_e l o n g a t e_*

    • @allysonnightshade676
      @allysonnightshade676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

    • @mikk.t.7824
      @mikk.t.7824 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Imagine elsagate but elon musk

    • @johnwang9914
      @johnwang9914 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well, it's more correct to say that bamboo grows by both cell multiplication and cell inflation while trees grow only by cell multiplication.

    • @mikk.t.7824
      @mikk.t.7824 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@johnwang9914 hi, welcome to a 3 year old comment thread, we shall bring it back to its former glory

    • @johnwang9914
      @johnwang9914 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mikk.t.7824 And yet there are posts from two days ago. If you are going to go with when the idea of grass elongating rather than dividing the cells first occurred then the thread is hundreds to thousands of years old. Just how pedantic are you?

  • @primmymax
    @primmymax 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1579

    so a bamboo is a grass and i'm eating bamboo shoots so meaning i'm just eating a very hard grass

    • @jypsridic
      @jypsridic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +278

      And if you're eating bread you're just eating ground up grass, and eating rice is just eating grass seed

    • @josephl.662
      @josephl.662 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Also, bamboo shoots are yummy. Especially if you make it into a salad with vinegar and pepper.

    • @user-uw4uv3cy7l
      @user-uw4uv3cy7l 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @Wilson the I the ones in store, no. Some species of bamboo might though but very rare. So no fear!

    • @DosAussieThai
      @DosAussieThai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Wilson the I I've eaten bamboo shoot all my life and never come across a poisonous one.

    • @DosAussieThai
      @DosAussieThai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Wilson the I When I grew up in a small rural village in one of the poorest parts of Thailand. We rarely bought bamboo shoots. Most bamboo shoots we ate were wild bamboo. We often went to the mountain and cut the bamboo shoot ourselves. I understand that the raw wild bamboo shoots might contain some poisonous organism or virus as opposed to the processed commercial one, but perhaps we were accustomed to them and developed an immune system against them.

  • @richardgonzales3341
    @richardgonzales3341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1052

    Grass: Who are you?
    Bamboo: I am you, but stronger.

  • @KuraIthys
    @KuraIthys 4 ปีที่แล้ว +427

    That's... wow. That's like 6 mm a minute. That brings new meaning to 'watching the grass grow'
    If you sit there for 5 minutes the bamboo gets several cm taller. XD

    • @enderdragoness546
      @enderdragoness546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Oh god

    • @thederpydude2088
      @thederpydude2088 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      He said UP TO 3 feet per day, so I'm assuming it's not always that fast. But it is still pretty crazy that it can even get that fast.

    • @YJ-7
      @YJ-7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol if only.
      I don't think it spreads out through time and distance equally

    • @wernerhiemer406
      @wernerhiemer406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Do the math: if it were 3 feet a day all the time it almost reaches the said 30 meters in just a month.

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Also the sun isn't up for the entire day, so maybe it can grow 10 mm per minute!

  • @AnimilesYT
    @AnimilesYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +927

    This is also why it is such a great sustainable product. More and more of my plastic stuff is getting replaced by bamboo. I hate plastics due to the damage it causes the earth and eventually us, so I'll minimize my use of plastics by using bamboo alternatives ^^

    • @goRoberth
      @goRoberth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      #ecoplastics #notallplastics

    • @firewoodloki
      @firewoodloki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Bamboo toilet paper, tissue, cup, bowl for the win!!

    • @SolomFoz
      @SolomFoz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Bamboo resins can cause cancer. Sustainability should take health into account. Plastics are safer for now till the resin issue is solved.

    • @chandy3859
      @chandy3859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@SolomFoz if only the plastic eating organisms are more widespread on earth.

    • @cosmopoiesecriandomundos7446
      @cosmopoiesecriandomundos7446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've heard algae are the future plastics.

  • @lilwombat
    @lilwombat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +467

    Just makes me think about that tourture tactic of letting the bamboo grow threw someone

  • @longtranbach5518
    @longtranbach5518 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1562

    Soooo.... I guess the others trees got "bamboo-zled"

  • @Scooozy
    @Scooozy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    “Yep, that’s right. Bamboo along with wheat, rice, and other grasses is a member of the Poaceae family”
    No way

  • @crimsonix69
    @crimsonix69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Me: **Crafts with 2 bamboo in Minecraft**
    Bamboo: **Makes a wooden stick**
    Me: **Visible confusion**

    • @ariq45
      @ariq45 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      the darn thing is strong

  • @Simon_Jakle__almost_real_name
    @Simon_Jakle__almost_real_name 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If you decide to have bamboo in your garden, think about keeping it in something like a kinda closed pot, because once bamboo spreads its root out, you might not be able to fully remove those roots, having to live with that fast size-increasing plant. But it's impressive what can be made or handycrafted out of bamboo, not just water channels and bicycles

  • @danabinghammclaughlin919
    @danabinghammclaughlin919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    "It's kind of like if giant violent sentient Galapagos finches had been sorted into hogwarts houses and then released on middle earth" is the strangest accurate summary I have ever heard.

    • @Sohlstyce
      @Sohlstyce 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't know what to coment but i want to ¯\_(ツ)_/

    • @_crunchyleaf_398
      @_crunchyleaf_398 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wings Of Fire is favourite book, JUST BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO
      THANK YOU

    • @paddlesaddlelad1881
      @paddlesaddlelad1881 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      timestamp?

    • @lightsoutboxing1
      @lightsoutboxing1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      XD i saw this comment as soon as I got to the part of the video that it was on so I was listening to this part of the video and reading the comment at the same time lol

    • @3possumsinatrenchcoat
      @3possumsinatrenchcoat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paddlesaddlelad1881 2:13

  • @knightshade6232
    @knightshade6232 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    good thing we had a lot of bamboo here in my village, we use it as kitchen utensils,house,furniture,pots,fences,tools and also food....

    • @allysonnightshade676
      @allysonnightshade676 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow....we don't really have much in my barangay 😅

  • @Piemasteratron
    @Piemasteratron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    I didn't get the GoT reference until the pandas. Then I saw that chair

    • @n3gi_
      @n3gi_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And I didn't until I saw your comment.

    • @Jdne199311
      @Jdne199311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bend the knee

    • @mr.bluefox3511
      @mr.bluefox3511 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I start noticed it when he said "rightful queen", also because i rewatch some GoT clips recently.

  • @edim108
    @edim108 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Just to illustrate how fast it grows:
    If bamboo grows 3 feet (about a meter) a day then you can actually see it grow. Just look at it for like 30 minutes and you'll legit see it grow taller in real time.
    For a plant that is Crazy fast!
    Also, there are types of bamboo that resist frost so even if you live in more northern parts of the world, you can still have them in your garden.

  • @droopitus
    @droopitus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Grass : I want to be like bamboo
    Grass: *evolves*
    Me: *mowing the lawn* what I can’t cut the grass!
    Lawn mower: *blade shatters*

    • @helo6824
      @helo6824 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i dont get why people cut grass... just let it grow :,

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because they suck nutrients leaving your future plant in danger

  • @samuraijack2857
    @samuraijack2857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Bamboos grows taller than trees
    Trees: Am I a joke to you?
    Bamboo: No but actually YES.

  • @e79905
    @e79905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    3 feet per day = 91 cm per day

    • @genghiskhan6688
      @genghiskhan6688 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thanks
      So sorry you had to go through the pains of interpreting those disgusting British units

    • @xDan445
      @xDan445 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Genghis Khan cm and m is British...

    • @genessab
      @genessab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      xDan no, the British use the metric system.
      Americans use the imperial (also known as the British) system

    • @xDan445
      @xDan445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Genessa I’m British bud. We use cm, m, km. the Americans and the american ‘continent’ are the only people who use imperial (the early British system). Everything is now being transferred. We use Kg and you guys use lb

    • @randomguy263
      @randomguy263 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@genghiskhan6688 Well, you really just have to multiply it by 3 and then divide that by 10 and then you have a fairly good approximation.

  • @bingbongjoel6581
    @bingbongjoel6581 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Who would win? Cell division; or one tall *boi?*

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One strong thick long elongated boi

  • @Snairster
    @Snairster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    *Hits the bottom block of bamboo*
    I love that sound.

  • @TetraSky
    @TetraSky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    We really should use bamboo more

    • @mr.angryman3599
      @mr.angryman3599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but how

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@mr.angryman3599 feed it to pandas, then we eat the pandas, and then we bury our carbon filled poop thereby solving climate change.

    • @mr.angryman3599
      @mr.angryman3599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@arthas640 I like the way you think. Truly revolutionary

    • @corniel657
      @corniel657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dude in East, south and southeast Asia we use bamboo all the time for almost anything

    • @MouseGoat
      @MouseGoat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@arthas640*China is typing.*

  • @TigruArdavi
    @TigruArdavi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    hahah I like those pissed-off trees with arms crossed. So neatly animated, just love these vids 😆

  • @WorgenGrrl
    @WorgenGrrl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bamboo: "I can grow so fast!"
    Kudzu: "Hold my Chlorophyll."

  • @xixappon
    @xixappon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Hey MinuteEarth! great video, I had this question for long time.
    But does this means that as the cell elongates it absorbs more CO2 than trees or that's mostly water?
    Thanks.

    • @Elewisisking
      @Elewisisking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      they arent here to tell you that kind of detail, didnt you hear? audible!

    • @jevonmcpherson8054
      @jevonmcpherson8054 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Elewisisking looool 😂 yall are making me laugh.

    • @ingenparks
      @ingenparks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      No. If you think about about it, you need to have a certain amount of structural material to stay upright, and having anymore isn't very useful. So it follows that both bamboo and trees would evolve to have the same amount of structural material. And, speaking over-generally, it's the structural material that CO2 is sequestered in. So they aren't any better. If you have heard about bamboo being used for carbon sequestration, it is because it grows more dry biomass per arce in the same amount of time.

    • @treelife365
      @treelife365 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As the bamboo reinforces its cell walls as it gets taller, it indeed sequesters more carbon. One shoot of bamboo is a lot thinner than a tree, but since one set of roots send up many shoots, you could say that the carbon sequestration is similar to that of a tree. In fact, it may be more, because bamboo grows so quickly.

    • @xixappon
      @xixappon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@treelife365 cool, it makes sense

  • @omgfiredragon
    @omgfiredragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Me: uug it's just another audible sponsorship
    Me 10 seconts later: Wings of Fire!

    • @gavinbrown216
      @gavinbrown216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Wings of Fire is amazing

    • @omgfiredragon
      @omgfiredragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@gavinbrown216 It is!!!

    • @goodrage
      @goodrage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me 4

    • @bridgetglisson2414
      @bridgetglisson2414 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      WoF IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @thelastcube.
      @thelastcube. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      13 books, wow

  • @NattyNuke
    @NattyNuke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Yeah, the old owner of my house, which I’ve been living in for eight years, planted some bamboo in the backyard, we’ve been removing it for years but it always comes back.

    • @RustyDust101
      @RustyDust101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because you don't get the rhyzomes underground.

  • @bonyuri5211
    @bonyuri5211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Most of my furnitures are mostly bamboo especially in the province. Bamboo is the wood I mostly use instead of the wood that came from the trees

  • @acomputerbug
    @acomputerbug 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Literally my favorite book series ever. I read it like ten times over.

  • @nightflighttheartist7123
    @nightflighttheartist7123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    When wings of fire was mentioned, I was hecking happy, HECK YES!
    Edit: I read the 17 books

    • @Terraspark4941
      @Terraspark4941 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      am i high or something?? where's the reference???

    • @nightflighttheartist7123
      @nightflighttheartist7123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Terraspark4941 That was 4 years ago man idek-

  • @niallallison8891
    @niallallison8891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really twists the tale of watching grass grow

  • @linzie5577
    @linzie5577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Now I know why bamboo shoots in animal crossing multiply so goddamn much

  • @dreamcanvas5321
    @dreamcanvas5321 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:28 "Yup, that's right! Bamboo...along with other grasses is a member of the Poaceae family"
    I love how the phrasing of this part could be interpreted as "you guessed right, it's in the Poaceae family!"
    Because I totally knew that.
    Totally.
    Did.
    ...
    really.
    ...
    (after watching this the first time...)

  • @Psycherz
    @Psycherz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Commercial use for carbon sequestration? Lets GMO this thing to super-growth and bury all the carbon tonnage in Yucca Mountain

    • @CorwynGC
      @CorwynGC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      1) It already has super growth.
      2) Yucca mountain is nowhere near big enough.

    • @Semightus
      @Semightus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Even though I’m more of an algae sequestration man myself, I really like this idea!

    • @Psycherz
      @Psycherz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@Semightus Let's do both. Seaweed too, as there are types that if fed to cattle reduce methane burps. Double whammy.

    • @solwindp78-1
      @solwindp78-1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I want your future to become real, but less for environmental reasons, and more because I want to be able to walk out my front door and see gargantuan bamboo stalks the size of mountains reaching up to the cloud layer, with a horde of harvester drones constantly collecting pieces of the bamboo stalk and other resources, similiar to the 'field of human batteries' scene in the Matrix. One day in this future, we would construct entire cities in the hollowed-out husks of genetically engineered super bamboo. Spacecraft would be flung into orbit from the higher reaches on ingenious catapults, enabling the rise of a colonial space empire.
      Of course, in this inevitably dystopian Earth landscape, the income inequality would rise, and the lower classes would live and work near the industrial gathering systems at the base of the bamboo, with little to no sunlight reaching the ground level. During the night the workers would gaze upward from their hard labor and see a sky blotted out with the neon lights of the distant, radiant Cloud District, of glamorous nightlife and grand displays of wealth. There would be tensions in a standard genrepunk fantasy class struggle fashion, ultimately leading to warfare, and at least one time the armies up top would drop some sort of coolass bomb on the people below, who would retaliate with an equally awesome delivery system to be determined at a later date. The ending twist would be the assistance of the Mars Colonists, who are sympathetic with the plight of the revolutionaries due to the canonical events of Red Faction: Guerilla.
      Ultimately, the tale would fizzle out after a decent adventure, yet fail to deliver the punch necessary to impact the audience or make a true statement on culture or politics. The film adaptation will be a largely unrelated Ryan Gosling vehicle in which he wears a jacket with bamboo design on the back. But that's just how I feel about it.

    • @gingerinajacket8519
      @gingerinajacket8519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@solwindp78-1 Imagine if aliens ever find us.
      "Sir are you sure this is the correct species?"
      "Of course! They just made communication with us last Glerfsdai. (Tuesday)"
      "But sir, they launch their spacecraft into orbit via what they call "Catapults" using one of their planets flora."
      "What? Impossible. Are you sure this is correct?"
      "Yeah we took a sample from their Catapults, and found living tissue. We had to jettison the sample though, as within a Shpelnarg (Week) of it being on the ship and fed to keep it alive it almost engulfed the R&D lab in the most imposing, but nonaggresive way possible. "
      "The longer we discuss this the less I believe my Darlisas (Ears/Auditory appendages)"

  • @t.g_buffington
    @t.g_buffington 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My gf has bamboo growing behind her grandparents house even though we live in the USA its because her great Grandpa planted it.

  • @axcel2727
    @axcel2727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i always told my classmates from elementary to this time
    they wont believe me that bamboos are grass

    • @pepearown4968
      @pepearown4968 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So is sugarcane.

    • @mr.bluefox3511
      @mr.bluefox3511 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just tell my parents right after the video end, and my dad just ask: "was this info came from reliable source ?"

    • @wintersfan
      @wintersfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mr.bluefox3511 Hahahahaha

  • @bottlegang3187
    @bottlegang3187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is also why we make chopsticks out of bamboo now in China instead of wood. Not only is bamboo harder to break than wood, but it also renews itself far faster than wood.

  • @randomguy263
    @randomguy263 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    0:03 3 feet a day is about a meter a day. That's about 12 µm/s or 0.69 mm/min (nice). So, you should, kinda, be able to watch it grow, although you'd probably have to be paying quite a lot attention to it.

  • @_crunchyleaf_398
    @_crunchyleaf_398 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have to say Audible thank you for this sponsorship and for you guys to accept it, because WoF is my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE book series.THANK YOU!

    • @wintersfan
      @wintersfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Finally A Comment About The Sponsors XD

    • @_crunchyleaf_398
      @_crunchyleaf_398 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wintersfan oh my god, seriously, that book is the best fantasy novel I have ever heard about. Best. Book. EVER
      And I didn't even use Audible, I just got it off of Amazon for my Kindle, and I don't regret a thing.

  • @skygge1006
    @skygge1006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So Your telling me that people in Asia actually mow their lawns I thought they used saws to cut the bamboo down

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its on the forest btw is this a joke just questioning

  • @urielantoniobarcelosavenda780
    @urielantoniobarcelosavenda780 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    here in méxico, we got a thing called `carrizo` is basically bamboo but, weaker, it not soo tall, or soo resistent, but is as fast as bamboo and, well, it´s basically bamboo, but more tiny

  • @YEdwardP
    @YEdwardP 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Maybe this is a dumb question, but could bamboo be a more efficient alternative to trees in terms of carbon capture?

    • @Tenzky
      @Tenzky 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes general rule of thumb is- faster it grows the more CO2 it consumes.

    • @109Rage
      @109Rage 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wouldn't matter. Even planting trees is a dumb idea for carbon capture, because plants do this thing we call "die", at which point they begin the process of releasing much of their built up carbon via decomposition.
      In any case, you'd need billions just to make up for the carbon output of a small country, and then in a few years all the bamboo will just… die at the same time.

    • @Tenzky
      @Tenzky 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@109Rage Bamboo die in epic event called flowering when it uses all energy to produce seeds. We can use leftover poles for furniture, bamboo fiber or whatever and seeds will regrow new bamboo grove. But yes you are correct it all boils down to producing less carbon as we humans instead of trying to capture those bilions of tons each year.

    • @minhduong4446
      @minhduong4446 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      aren't sea weed the better alternative already?

  • @josethethinket9819
    @josethethinket9819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:25 you got bamboozled

  • @pesterenan
    @pesterenan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Minute Earth: Bamboo is a type of grass!
    Me: wait... _what?_

  • @RainWontStay
    @RainWontStay 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Came for a 3 minute video, got a 2 minute video plus a 1 minute ad. But I still love you guys!!

  • @UnPuntoCircular
    @UnPuntoCircular 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    - You are in the presence of Bamboo of House Poaceae, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Rightful Queen of the Forest, the Unbent, the Breaker of Records and Mother of Pandas.
    - This is Spruce Snow...
    .
    .
    .
    ... he's King in the North.
    - Bend the node

    • @longtranbach5518
      @longtranbach5518 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "15 hours ago"
      wait... THATS ILLEGAL!!!

    • @nantanitjung
      @nantanitjung 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even though I didn't watch GoT (but I seek spoilers) , I get a good laugh out of it. All the kudos to you.

    • @WSmith1984
      @WSmith1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wiat, bamboo is found in china right? That means that to the north is a large wall.

  • @jakobraahauge7299
    @jakobraahauge7299 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    World's fastest growing plant grows with about 25% of the speed kelp grows with! Wow, your science is amazing!

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I see that "fastest grow plant on earth" thing throw around alot, and what most peopel forget to mention is that it's the fastest growing _land_ plant and even then they measure based on just height, whereas some vines like kudzu can grow _out_ faster than bamboo grows _up._

  • @dommyespi6797
    @dommyespi6797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Do the question “Why humans become corrupt” I think it’ll help us understand about some people more!

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the answer is probably because power corrupts, money corrupts, and both money and power tend to attract corrupt people.

    • @rohentahir4696
      @rohentahir4696 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arthas640
      Burger flipper cope

  • @joseplayz9041
    @joseplayz9041 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Last time I saw MinuteEarth, it had one character. Now more! I’m glad I came back

  • @eyalgoffer1982
    @eyalgoffer1982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Omg I just watched that fact about bamboo on National Geogographic and THIS came up on my youtube!!! Omg what tf is happening???

    • @lalisatr9817
      @lalisatr9817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Problally because TH-cam is owned by google and the take your information for adverts soo it normal

    • @aezzil3536
      @aezzil3536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You are a chosen Bamboo disciple 🎍

  • @Kaytaaay
    @Kaytaaay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Like bamboo, Julián is a valuable resource that we’re lucky to have access to!!! 💪🐱

  • @Eosullivan85
    @Eosullivan85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I legit thought this was about Henry stickmin from the thumbnail.

  • @timcox2498
    @timcox2498 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't you love how straight to the point it is

  • @brostrod
    @brostrod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Trees: I have many cells
    Bamboo: *E X T E N D*

  • @killianjerrr2176
    @killianjerrr2176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dammit I clicked on this cause I thought this was Henry Stickmin, but you know what , I respect this video and I was still satisfied, I definitely don't regret clicking

  • @affanafrizalgani9494
    @affanafrizalgani9494 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I don't know, a simple marks to explain how the forest feels look so realistic for me 😅

  • @bluewinterstorm
    @bluewinterstorm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love watching bamboo furniture building

  • @lamandigital
    @lamandigital 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Panda: that joke was our lowest in list

  • @hyphen2612
    @hyphen2612 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know a company in southern China they'd flatten green bamboos with giant rollers into flat sheets of fiber. And then they stack, bake and then vacuum soak the sheets with adhesives to make a very strong and convincing faux ebony/rosewood. It works great as a hard wood alternative and is even more sustainable than plywoods made out of soft wood.

    • @hyphen2612
      @hyphen2612 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If they could come out with a more flowy PLA-based glue to replace the polyester glue, thay might even become completely biodegradable!

  • @gigglysamentz2021
    @gigglysamentz2021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I actually went to see a bamboo time lapse and it was wonderful

  • @zachcrawford5
    @zachcrawford5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hydroponic bamboo seems like a fun idea.

  • @shada0
    @shada0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wait if it grows so fast why isn't more really used, It sounds like a killer renewable resource.

    • @jypsridic
      @jypsridic 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      because of where it grows. In its native region I think it gets used for just about everything.

    • @HAnh-qd8sx
      @HAnh-qd8sx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jypsridic it's used plenty, from food to construction material, funitures in south east asia and various countries. i think human might develop bigger use for it like biofuel in the future

    • @faizan2987
      @faizan2987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HAnh-qd8sx *_Can it be used as fuel for fire?_*

    • @user-uw4uv3cy7l
      @user-uw4uv3cy7l 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@faizan2987 yes, its pretty flammable

  • @bangscutter
    @bangscutter 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fast-growing bamboo and its strength for its light weight, also makes it ideal for furniture-making and light-weight construction. Hong Kong today still use bamboo scaffolding in construction.

  • @iRecordRandomVids
    @iRecordRandomVids 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Fun fact: Some Asian countries during wartime would use bamboo as a form of torture for information. Strapping their prisoners to the ground and planting bamboo below them until it inevitably would begin to pierce them

    • @kevinyu3863
      @kevinyu3863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      iRecordRandomVids Vietnam war

    • @iloveadoptmee3920
      @iloveadoptmee3920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What do u mean FUN?

    • @AphoticGoblin
      @AphoticGoblin 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      iRecordRandomVids
      “Fun”

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wouldn't quiet call that a fact, it's based on stories and people have said the same thing about both bamboo and a few other plants. The only study I could find on its feasibility was by Mythbusters where they used ballistics gel, but the problems with that is ballistics gel has a uniform density comparable overall to human flesh. The issue with that is that human flesh is denser at the surface and is backed by muscle, plus a slab of gel cant heal, clot, or move while humans can. There's also the issue that it isnt a 1:1 comparison, so 1 inch of gel isnt quiet the same as 1 inch of flesh. Ballsitic gel is mainly used for ballistics studies for these reasons, and are usually compared against several other studies/measurements to get a more accurate picture.
      There's also the issue that most of the stories about bamboos use for torture are apacrophyl: it was mostly a few stories and many of them go like "a refugee claimed they talked to someone who was tortured this way or claimed they saw its use, then told someone else about it, who told someone else about it, before the story was mentioned in a book/article". That can be an issue since refugees/POW's fleeing war, death, and torture dont often make for reliable witnesses when it comes to scientific accuracy. Typically you need a great many people telling the same story wit little variation in that story before it can be regarded as likely to have happened and this story has only popped up a few times spread across several countries, over 150 years of history, and several wars/conflicts.
      Another issue is that plants will grow _through_ something but if given the opportunity they'll grow _around_ it, so even if you were to lay there unmoving it's more likely that the bamboo would just grow at an angle around you.
      Besides, if your going to torture someone with bamboo there are much easier ways of doing it, such as the proven "bamboo spikes through _____" or "bamboo splinters under nails" or similar tortures that definitely did happen. If you want it to be slow why not impale someone on a spike and leave them there to suffer? Much easier than waiting a few days for a sprout to maybe grow through a guy and hope the for the best.

  • @TigruArdavi
    @TigruArdavi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    House of Poaceae, hahaha. I right imagine House of Pinaceae says just you wait, for *winter is coming* and just flipping bamboo the middle needle 🤣 Photosynthesize this!

  • @Orygiri
    @Orygiri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fun fact: Bamboos grow 10x faster when 0 ticked

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What are you sure

    • @ygotsvlog3762
      @ygotsvlog3762 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It doesnt seem like it maybe 5x faster

  • @leoncampa
    @leoncampa 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the most educational things I have learned all week...

  • @titleloanman
    @titleloanman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That GoT reference at the end made me sad all over again that D&D destroyed the series.

    • @UnPuntoCircular
      @UnPuntoCircular 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That wound won't ever heal. This episode was actually conceived before S8 and was pushed because of unrelated stuff. It hurts a lot not having a good conclusion the otherwise greatest series of all time.

    • @user-uq4gr5nl5o
      @user-uq4gr5nl5o 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      "destroyed the series" the series is just fine.

    • @Tustin2121
      @Tustin2121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Um, what? How did Dungeons and Dragons destroy Game of Thrones...?

    • @malachimclean3638
      @malachimclean3638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Tustin2121 D&D in this context refers to the names of the GoT showrunners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. It is kinda confusing since GoT and Dungeons and Dragons have similar audiences.

    • @The_Bird_Bird_Harder
      @The_Bird_Bird_Harder 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@malachimclean3638 I was thinking like. Did they crit fail their writing roll?

  • @marka1052
    @marka1052 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice GOT reference at the end. 👍

  • @betawarier346
    @betawarier346 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Trees: Only trees can grow big
    Bamboo: Am I a joke to you

  • @GiRR007
    @GiRR007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An old type of torture that use to be used in Vietnam was that a person would be placed over a growing bamboo shoot and over time it would grow through said person :)

  • @olgabeltransokolova9946
    @olgabeltransokolova9946 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love wings of fire(I have 1-6,8,11-13

  • @atheananana
    @atheananana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this video made me crave bamboo

  • @zhoubo98
    @zhoubo98 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    AND IT IS ALSO ABOUT OTHER DRAGONS/DRAGONOETS IN OTHER WINGS OF FIRE BOOKS

  • @olivermcgimpsey841
    @olivermcgimpsey841 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    At our local castle, culzean, we have to go and chop down bamboo to stop it from overgrowing

  • @saraangel6696
    @saraangel6696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Yes! I love bamboo! In my country, it is protected and the cutting of bamboo is regulated because they protect small water streams, but it's also extremely common for building and for making furniture. It's also really cheap, and the wood is very sturdy, i just love bamboo.

  • @spongesomeone
    @spongesomeone 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not even 3 whole minutes and the last minute was an ad, fantastic

  • @KangHyunChu
    @KangHyunChu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    雨後竹筍 (bamboo shoot after rain)

  • @kingfurret9668
    @kingfurret9668 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    *when they mention Wings of fire*
    *dances in has 3 of the books and it’s my favourite book series*

  • @snowghost9800
    @snowghost9800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    my take-away:
    Bamboo = Panda Fast Food

  • @noteorius2797
    @noteorius2797 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved reading wings of fire , still waiting for the next one for this year

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Guess the trees got *bamboo-zled* by this grass. Come on, I had to 😂

    • @ahuggingsam
      @ahuggingsam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      darn, beat me too it xD

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Sam Vente Turns out, someone else beat me to it too. People work fast here lol

  • @victorclabaugh1373
    @victorclabaugh1373 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was. Always amazed by the bamboo in our backyard I would get new shoots every spring. We got it from an old neighbor back in early 80's I'm In maryland

  • @TreeHairedGingerAle
    @TreeHairedGingerAle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Un-thorough. No mention of bamboo's important environmentally-friendly potential or its bacteria-hindering uses; or of its place in various ecosystems. Easily a third of the length of this video is just advertisement.
    Disappointing.

  • @NewMindGarden
    @NewMindGarden 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing..
    Absolutely amazing..

  • @Alvionalx
    @Alvionalx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Videos say that’s the video says It have been uploaded 6 hours ago
    MinuteEarth comment says the video is been uploaded 22 or more hours ago
    Me:WTF!
    Edit:The edit was made after MinuteEarth replied

    • @MinuteEarth
      @MinuteEarth  4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We upload our videos as unlisted for Patreon supporters and TH-cam members before making them public. TH-cam makes the "publication time" the time it was made public, not when it was actually uploaded.

    • @Alvionalx
      @Alvionalx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MinuteEarth Thanks for explaining!(I’ve seen this reply 10 months ago but until now I haven’t replied yet.)

  • @sabi6684
    @sabi6684 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! I’m ...BAMBOOzled! 😲😲😲

  • @eric-zb6qv
    @eric-zb6qv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How come in minecraft wheat grows faster then baboon

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      banana cat
      Well... uhhh... ask jeb_

    • @eric-zb6qv
      @eric-zb6qv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yo slinky i think it's called a joke

  • @justahobbiest
    @justahobbiest หลายเดือนก่อน

    You forgot to mention how Chickens came to be the most popular of poultry because they grew up in the bamboo forests and relied on their 40-60 year bloom cycle to lay eggs like CRAZY when there's a surplus of seeds to keep their numbers up.
    Making bamboo, the mother of the single most successful/numerous bird species on the planet!

  • @ZeeTheG_
    @ZeeTheG_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Bamboo is not a tree, but actually grass? Are you telling me I have been....
    Bamboozled!

  • @zackoshi605
    @zackoshi605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    daniel : grass
    the cooler daniel : bamboo

  • @TheNikoNik
    @TheNikoNik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    So, what's the deal with the narrator using imperial units and the animator using metric? and for a science channel I'd expect to always have metric, with imperial as just an optional addition.

    • @endjey
      @endjey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And the math of one of them is wrong. 3 feet is 91 cm and if it grows 91 cm per day it take only a month to get 30 m. 3 feet per day is too much to be real also.

    • @Tina-Brune
      @Tina-Brune 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@endjey I've heard the 1m per day figure before though...

    • @endjey
      @endjey 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Tina-Brune it may have some cases, but as an averege for the whole bamboos out there? This house is never 30m tall --> th-cam.com/video/aRyOK8fcs_s/w-d-xo.html

    • @Felipe3001miranda
      @Felipe3001miranda 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are only some species of bamboo which grows this fast. If you search on yt you can find a timelapse of bamboo growing throughout 24h

  • @ToastTheTheorist
    @ToastTheTheorist 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    each time we learn something new

  • @markom7841
    @markom7841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I did read the title as "The Fastest-Growing Planet in the World"

  • @CyanicCore
    @CyanicCore 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    As someone who read the first set of Wings of Fire books, I salute you on your description! It's both smart and funny!

  • @zarine6799
    @zarine6799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    00:22 Should've saved that till the end.

  • @justasans-tasticsans7282
    @justasans-tasticsans7282 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now we should all plant bamboo in every city and town street we can and see if anyone notices

  • @rtswift
    @rtswift 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    so grow a bunch of bamboo to sequester carbon?

    • @DiscoDevil197
      @DiscoDevil197 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes actually, removing old forest and continually replanting it with fast growing plants is a legit way to counteract carbon emissions

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A Seyed
      Yes, Growing forests of paulownia is extremely efficient for carbon sequestration !
      But so is growing tons of algae...

    • @slinkydrinky1084
      @slinkydrinky1084 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cezarcatalin1406 Now i want to develop a algae dominated bamboo forest

  • @a_littlecrow7155
    @a_littlecrow7155 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got do happy when he mentioned wof it's one of my favorite series I'm trying to get the most recent one