Lawn & Garden - Lucky Bamboo Plant Care
About Lucky Bamboo Plant Care
What Is a Lucky Bamboo Plant?
The lucky bamboo plant is part of the Dracaena and lily families. They originated in the deep and dark forests of Southeast Asia and Africa. The name 'lucky bamboo' also originated in Southeast Asia because bamboo was known as a great symbol of luck and good fortune. It also represents wood in the Feng Shui practice. This plant is most commonly used as a house plant. They are found in a wide variety of shapes, heights and sizes. Each plant has a different design. The lucky bamboo plant is able to thrive indoors because it is a durable and long lasting plant which regularly needs care. The lucky bamboo plant does not contain bamboo it is just resembles bamboo. It is an inexpensive houseplant and great gift idea. The plant is highly valued for its interesting appearances and energy and spiritual symbolism.
Watering Lucky Bamboo
Taking care of the lucky bamboo plant is simple. Being a houseplant it should be positioned in direct sunlight as it will receive energy from it. The plant should be watered once a week ensuring that it always receives fresh water.
Lucky bamboo is a living organism and it should occasionally be fed water diluted fertilizers suitable for this type of indoor plant. They thrive on warm room temperatures and can be placed outdoors during the summer. The growth of the plant can be determined by your feeding habits.
Lucky Bamboo Plant Care Problems
In some cases indoor plants suffer because of a variety of many different simple reasons. The plant may not be receiving enough sunlight or it is getting watered to often. One common occurrence is that the leaves of the plant turn a yellow color. One of the most common factors of this occurrence is that the plant is receiving too much sunlight so it may be wise to move it into a position where it is in direct sunlight just in the morning. Also the tap water you are feeding the plant could also be causing this problem because it contains too much salts and fluoride. Try using natural and spring water if this continues to happen. Lucky Bamboo Plant Cuttings
Lucky bamboo plants thrive under the right conditions. The bamboo plant can be cut at the stalk and transferred and re planted into another pot and grown to be a successful and thriving plant. Instead of purchasing another lucky bamboo plant homeowners can simply grow off there own. The freshly cut stalk on the original bamboo plant will grow back in no time at all and the newly plant stalk will thrive in its new pot.
Pots and Urns
The lucky bamboo plant is generally grown inside a pot or urn. It is always important for homeowners and plant growers to access the pot or urn which the plant is in. If the pot or urn is too small then the plant may die or become diseased because the roots do not have room to grow. If this is the case then the plant can be re potted into larger pots approximately 2 inches larger than the original size.
