SOAK BAMBOO IN MUD
Treating bamboo is the very important stage, bamboo is treated well will helps the construction to be more stable afterward. One of the traditional methods to treat bamboo effectively, is: SOAK BAMBOO IN MUD.
How to soak bamboo in mud?
After harvesting, bamboo is treated by soaking in mud. Because of the light weights, so bamboo usually floats on the water. Therefore, the people will use the heavy objects to press or tie to bamboo. It helps the bamboo completely submerged in the pond.
After picking up, bamboo will be cleaned the dirty layer to proceed next stage.
The advantages of soaking bamboo in mud:
- Simple, easy to perform, the workers can treat with the large number of bamboo.
- Avoiding vermins for bamboo.
- This method helps to seperate the sugar & starch from bamboo culm.
- No need to invest technologic machine.

The disadvantages of soaking bamboo in mud:
- The time is very long: 6 months to 1 year.
- Needing the large pond area.
- After soaking in mud, bamboo will have the smell.
- After picking bamboo out of the pond, the sugar & starch from bamboo will be stagnated in the pond.