if you plant a cricket bat would it grow?

Answer 1

Yes but you have to water it regularly ohhhh and also spend time talking to it . Cricket bats are also known to love a good horror story so maybe you could read it a good James Herbert novel.They seem to thrive in direct sunlight so please plant it south facing . :) :) :) :)

Answer 2

No - there are some kinds of wood that will grow if planted in soil - willow is the most common example of this - you can grow a willow hedge by planting sticks (stems) standing up in the ground like a fence and it will grow roots and leaves and soon turn into a hedge! The difference with your cricket bat is that, apart from having probably been varnished etc., it comes from a tree trunk - not an intact stem. It's only the wood near the edge of a tree trunk that is living - everything in the middle is dead. Have you ever seen those really old trees that you can climb inside their hollow trunk? These exist because the dead wood inside them has rotted away over time and just left the living 'shell' of the wood closer to the outside. So anyway, unlike a willow's sick-like stem, the wood that your cricket bat is made from is already dead - it has no chance of growing as once something is truely dead it cannot come back to life!

Answer 3

No.
Read Cathy's answer, it's a good one.
The wood needs to contain cells that are capable of growth. Although Willow is legendary in its ability to grow from the smallest of bits. The bits that grow have to have the correct type of growth cells. The heartwood that you make bats from doesn't have these. If your bat was made by a ludicrously poor bat maker who'd left a bit of live cambium (the bit near the bark) on it, then it wood (ha, ha...) at least have the potential under the right conditions.
But no self respecting British craftsman or woman would ever produce such a thing. It's just not cricket!
Willow has good headache healing properties incidentally, which would be handy if wopped over the head with the aforementioned sporting equipment for asking such a daft question. Entertaining though.

Answer 4

Hey.
Actually this is an interesting question.
Due to the nature of all plant cells, they all have the ability to grow and produce an exact replica of the original plant!
For example if you take a single cell from a plant and grow it in the right conditions it will produce an exact copy of the plant it came from.

So, back to our cricket bat - i'm afraid it would not grown for 2 important reasons:
1) The wood has been treated with a strengthener which will have killed the cells so no growing is going to happen.
2) The conditions for growing would have to be in a lab more than likely for it to grow.

Answer 5

can I ask where did this question come from. because Its rather obvious to me that the cricket bat has done all the growing it will ever do or need before it became a cricket bat.

Well if you read terry practett and you believe in magic you might be able to remind the wood what it was like to filled with sap and pulse with natural life like in wyrd sisters. I am sure its worth a try. ;>

Answer 6

It depends how new the bat is. I had a willow log sprouting fresh green leaves (in my living room) the spring after it was cut, some nine months later. Willow is notorious for staying live and putting out roots and shoots long after you think it must be dead. I suspect a cricket bat will probably have been aged first to ensure it doesn't warp, but it is faintly possible that it might "take" as a cutting in the right circumstances.

Answer 7

No. It has been processed and treated in various ways.

Interestingly, there are some cut sticks which can be used as fences and these will grow roots and shoots if left in a suitable environment (i.e. with enough water, light and appropriate temperature). In parts of the West Indies, they are called 'Quick stick' but I'm not sure of the species.

Answer 8

Of course it will. Another little known fact, Mahogany or Iroko coffee tables, planted `legs up`, will produce small, beautiful flowering trees in approximately 2 weeks. Try it for family and friends, it never fails to surprise.

Answer 9

course it would at about the same rate as a chicken would grow if you planted a feather

Answer 10

yeah if you water it, don't plant it too close to the house as you don't wont the roots messing with the foundations!!! xxx