BAMBOO AVAILABLE FOR FREE (ไม้ไผ่ให้ฟรี)

20 July 2025

General information — ข้อมูลที่สำคัญ

Available bamboo species

Living specimens of bamboo species and varieties that are still in cultivation in Bambusetum Baan Sammi as of May 2025:

Pre-cut bamboo poles for FREE (Pile #86) — various species

— UPDATE 20 JULY 2025: All bamboo poles are still available. —

Numerous stems of various bamboo species are offered FREE of charge. The stems are 4–10 m long, most are ca. 6 m long, 2–5 cm in diameter, most are moderately thick-walled to thick-walled. A few more stems will be added over the next few weeks.

23 June 2025

Bamboo culms offered during dry season 2025/2026

During the past 2024/2025 dry season, an uncountable number of cut bamboo culms were offered, all for free. These offers were published on numerous Chiang Mai Facebook groups and Khun Sam's Facebook page: altogether 36 offers of piles of bamboo, starting with Pile #49 in January 2025 and ending with Pile #85 in May 2025. Furthermore, numerous free bamboo culms were offered to people for self-harvesting the bamboo clumps from September 2024 to April 2025.

In the coming dry season of 2025/2026, pre-cut bamboo culms will be offered again for FREE, but in significantly smaller quantities.

We recommend contacting us in advance if anyone is interested in bamboo culms. If and when bamboo culms are available, we will offer them to you first.

15 May 2025

Pre-cut bamboo poles for FREE (Pile #85) — various species

— UPDATE 23 MAY 2025: All bamboo poles of this pile were picked up on 22 May 2025; none remained. —

Pre-cut bamboo poles for FREE (Pile #84) — various species

— UPDATE 4 MAY 2025: All bamboo poles of this pile were picked up today, and none remained. —

Pre-cut bamboo poles for FREE (Pile #83) — Bambusa sp.

— UPDATE 4 MAY 2025: All bamboo poles of this pile were picked up today, and none remained. —

Pre-cut bamboo poles for FREE (Pile #82) — ×Thyrsocalamus liang

— UPDATE 19 APRIL 2025: All bamboo poles were harvested today and picked up; none remained. —

Pre-cut bamboo poles for FREE (Pile #81) — Bambusa duriuscula

— UPDATE 25 APRIL 2025: All bamboo poles were picked up; none remained. —

Pre-cut bamboo poles for FREE (Pile #80) — Dendrocalamus brandisii

— UPDATE 10 APRIL 2025: All culms were harvest and picked up on 9th and 10th April, and none remained. —

Bamboo PLANTS for free — ต้นไม้ไผ่หลายพันธุ์ ฟรี

— AVAILABILITY WAS CHECKED AND UPDATED FOR EACH POSTED SECTION ON 6 APR. 2025: For details, please click the "Read more" link below. —

Bambusa textilis var. gracilis, ไผ่กราซิลิส (phai krasilit): bamboo SAPLINGS for FREE

— UPDATE 6 JULY 2025: all saplings were picked up; none are left. —

This bamboo is a native of Thailand and neighboring countries. It has a running rhizome and thus forms thickets. If you would like to receive a living plant, we can dig up a small piece of the plant that has rhizomes and leafy culms.

General information on bamboo culm harvesting and how to obtain these culms free of charge

Over 300 bamboo species were cultivated on the grounds of Baan Sammi, Doi Saket District, Chiang Mai Province, several years ago. The number of species has been reduced over the years, and as of April 2025, only approximately 40 different bamboo species remain.

Most species are useful bamboos with diameters of 3 to 10 cm, thick-walled or even solid on the lower culm, and lengths of 10 m and more.

To harvest the culms of these clumps, we need the help of one person: you, or another person accompanying you who will carry out the assisting work. We saw off all the culms at their bases OURSELVES, but all other work must be done by the person helping, e.g., cutting off the branches from the culms, and uploading the culms onto the person's pickup truck. This person can receive all harvested culms for free if they want them.

We cut the culms ourselves at their bases using a reciprocating saw (left).
To pull a culm out of the bamboo clump, one person (male or female) is needed (center).
You or your team must load all the desired culms (and also branches, if wanted) onto your vehicle (right).

Various medium-sized bamboo species — help harvest these culms and get them for FREE!

Culm harvesting of medium-sized bamboo is not arduous, though it requires your assistance, as described in → this post.

Culms of medium-sized bamboo are less tall, about 10 m, but the usable section of such a culm is shorter, often between 5 and 8 m long. Diameters are mostly in the range of 2 to 4 cm. Please click on 'Read more' to see a selection of suitable species.

Build your bamboo fence with FREE bamboo STEMS that you can harvest yourself!

There are numerous bamboo fencing constructions and designs, most are of three main elements, each of which works best with poles of different bamboo species:

Examples: Phai Sang Mon, a Dendrocalamus species, is ideal for thick fence poles (left), Phai Ruak Dam, Thyrsostachys oliveri, is good for fence rails (center), and Schizostachyum zollingeri can be easily split for fence strips (right).