The bamboos here sometime all have popping sessions at the same time.
It can happen without wind and at day or night, cool or warm. Bamboos
on several nearby hilltops start making popping sounds. Could it be
changes in humidity? Happens a few times a year.
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The bamboos here sometime all have popping sessions at the same time. It can
happen without wind and at day or night, cool or warm.
Taiwan
Bamboo is a very rapidly growing plant. You are probably hearing it grow. Out
in our Midwestern corn belt, they say you can hear the corn grow in midsummer.


Iris,
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In article , Dan Jacobson wrote:
The bamboos here sometime all have popping sessions at the same time.
It can happen without wind and at day or night, cool or warm. Bamboos
on several nearby hilltops start making popping sounds. Could it be
changes in humidity? Happens a few times a year.

Here, bamboo makes a *really loud* popping sound when you set fire to
it. ;-)


Cheers, Phred.

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Dan Jacobson wrote:
: The bamboos here sometime all have popping sessions at the same time.
: It can happen without wind and at day or night, cool or warm. Bamboos
: on several nearby hilltops start making popping sounds. Could it be
: changes in humidity? Happens a few times a year.
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caavitation in stem?

regards

erastothenes

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Taking the "paranoid" out of "delusion".
icq #107970956

"I" == Iris Cohen writes:

I Bamboo is a very rapidly growing plant. You are probably hearing it grow. Out
I in our Midwestern corn belt, they say you can hear the corn grow in midsummer.

But from 200 meters away, about one pop per 10 minutes per clump on a
hilltop, from several hilltops, for a hour or two a few days a year?

No, they weren't on fire. Perhaps it might be sudden dryness of the
air though... but I don't have a humidity meter to tell, oops. No
barometer either.
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