Children grow best in a rich nutrient soil with high pH. Water once a week and prune in the spring. Harvest in late July.

Man I didn’t now children grows from the ground

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...

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.

Man growing children sounds hard. I heard the harvest isn’t that great either :/

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 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.

Ah yes children, my favorite plant

Giant kelp: *yawn *

As a child i can confirm, i do grow on the ground.

After watching this video I went out to the garden to spread seed to grow a child. The neighbors called the police…

Haha now you can actually technically watch grass grow as bamboo is a type of grass

Bamboo doesn’t grow 300m per year: it tops at about 30m.

Nothing beat bamboo except bamboo modified to grow faster

oof, the power of plants man

I have a six month old mango in my bedroom. I can look up from the laptop after a few hours and see change.

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.

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?

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

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

The fact that bamboo is a grass, puts the whole watching the grass grow into a new perspective.

I think this video has one of the most beautiful aesthetics i've seen

"Am watching paint dry. Ha! Too bad am watching baboo grow"

9,1 cm a day not 91 which is still very impressive

Thank you

i love this. bamboo is such a versatile plant..

Which tree grows most by mass?

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.

"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!

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.

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

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.

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.

If you get high enough, you can watch any plant grow

Love the fact a child is included in this

And pandas still decided to be critically endangered.

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.

I would say for the Bamboo, because it grows 80 years.

We have a rainforest vine in north Queensland, Merremia, that might grow 30-40 cm per day.

You didn't mention Kudzu, which only grows a foot a day but that's pretty fast as well.

Bambi is not a tree, it belongs to the flower family poaceae which is the grass family.

i love grass. we can't live without it!

Woahh!!! Didn't know children are a plant, I'll be sure to bury them next time! Thanks

Duckweed can cover a body of water in a month. Each plant being clonal

I guess it depends on the varieties. Because the bamboos in my neighbour's garden definitely don't grow that fast 😅 ! Probable 10 times slower tant stated here. Which is already pretty fast !

Paulowania tomentosa grows 457.2 Cm per year, 15 feet, or roughly 5 meters!

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.

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 .

Kudzu should be in this list also, but I guess because its a vine?

Children grow as seedlings to plants in 20 years. Due to this they are known as slow growers and require lots of maintence.

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.

What about kelp?

Man I didn’t know bamboo grew to be over 300 meters tall

What about casava?

Bamboo is my kind of plant, I am VERY impatient

What about seaweed?

No way!

Yet I can't get these bamboo seeds to grow AT ALL

Crazy that Kudzu isn’t on the list. That stuff is like the plague

What about kudzu?

Kudzu in Japan…

Don’t be surprised if you got called short by a living bamboo

Fun fact: Bamboo is Grass

Wot, no kudzu?

What type of bamboo grows that fast? Obviously not all of them grow at that rate.

I wonder was hemp ever under consideration ?

Now what kind of bamboo is the question?

In the hopes of helping reduce co2, could we make Bamboo grow faster?

Knew it.

Excluding kelp?

Bruh my garlic plants grow 1 foot a week when they were just planted

It may be one of the greatest carbon sinks when you think about it.

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

Which bamboo species is the fastest ?

Hemp is faster. Hemp can be harvested for fiber in 4 months, bamboo take about 4 years.

Most Eco-friendly Of Bamboo..

Damn, I didn't get to say Kelp is not a plant :{

90cm a day? Surely that can't be right...

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.

Yeah, but bamboo is not a tree.

Its that bamboo is the fastest growing plant

30m is not 0.3km. It is 0.03km :D

I had bamboo and it didn’t grow at all

Check out kudzu

If it grows so much then why are mine about 3 ft and had them for more than a year or 2?

That’s because bamboo is a species of grass. It grows at the same relative speed as your lawn, but as each stem is many thousands of time larger, it appears to grow many thousands of times faster than your lawn. Reality is, if you could scale up many modern selectively bread grain crops, they would grow faster and higher than bamboo, and you would be able to hear them growing.

Duckweed doubles in a few days!

Bamboo... Growing as fast as they can around 3 or 4 metres just in one night. 😂😂😂

Kelp.

And here I used children as fertilizer. Silly me, maybe I should use them to fertilize bamboo.

I think using bamboo to sequester vast amounts of carbon is a good idea, so long as it can be controlled. Maybe a large warehouse and hydroponics so the seeds dont spread and the hatvest can be more easily automated.

So the birds and the bees was a lie?

0:06 - "Plants and trees grow at different speeds." Trees ARE plants. That statement should read: 'Trees and other plants grow at different speeds.' A little nit-picky, but accuracy matters.

You forgot my f*cking Zucchini. Have not eaten anything else for one Month.

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!

Paulownia can grow 4 m

Missing Kelp, which can do 45 CM per Day

I call bs on the bamboo

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.