The Lucky Bamboo Gets a New Home
I’ve had a lucky bamboo plant for about two years. When I first purchased the plant a couple years ago, it was just a couple short stubby stems. Its grown about a foot per year, and it’s now about two feet tall. I’ve never transplanted it from its original container.
Lucky Bamboo is actually in the lily family and is not bamboo at all. The plant is very easy to grow and maintain. It grows in a container with decorative rocks and water. I use distilled, or bottled water. It’s not fussy, I keep it on my cookbook stand in the kitchen since it enjoys indirect but bright sunlight, it gets sunlight from two windows in this spot.
The roots were coming out of the top of the container, and the plant was drinking all its water within a couple days. My husband tipped it over a couple weeks ago. He swept up some of the stones and threw them away.
It badly needed a transplant, so today I gave it a new home. I re potted it in a pot about twice the size of the original, and I gave it some new stones. I read somewhere the pot is supposed to be about two inches bigger around than the lucky bamboo plant. I hope it’s happy in the new pot.
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3 opinions for The Lucky Bamboo Gets a New Home
Noreen Crone-Findlay
Jan 1, 2008 at 5:42 am
I have killed 2 Lucky Bamboo plants now! I have tried them in southern exposure windows, eastern, and northern…… and sadly, neither plant was happy in any of the windows! I am DEFINITELY doing something wrong! sigh!
Suggestions?
Linette
Jan 1, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Maybe too much sunlight? I don’t have mine in a window. It’s between two windows, but it’s far enough away from both it doesn’t get direct sunlight.
They say direct sun can burn the leaves.
sue
Mar 30, 2008 at 11:16 pm
how can i transplant my bambo what kind of pepples used.
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