i have some bamboo in a pot sitting on my windowsill and it ain't lookin so hot. it's partially brown. i don't know. i think i'm supposed to give it a good amount of water, and it gets sunshine. any suggestions? my friend said it needs lots of water and said i could prob. even take it out of it's soil and submerge it in water indefinitely.
I don't know about bamboo in soil. I've had my bamboo for 2+ years and I keep the roots thoroughly submerged in a glass vase with some rocks to stabilize the shoots. All that is in the vase is water and rocks. No soil, and it's never touched soil. The shoots are quite tall and green now so I think I'm doing something right. I messed around with it earlier, a year or so ago, thinking that it needed more sun because the leaves were yellow. Not good. Yellow means too much sun. Bamboo (or mine anyway) don't seem to need much sunlight at all and definately not direct sunlight for hours on end.
down here,, how ya care for yer bamboo is nuke the onslaught of its ever enchroaching roots yearly,,.. that or dig a 6 foot deep trench an put a barrier tween yer patch an what ya wanna protect,,an then ya will only have to nuke it every 3 years..
well there is bamboo and then there is BAMBOO. The stuff that grows in a jar full of water is NOT bamboo. I know you won't believe me but look it up for your self. the plant is a dracena...that is pawned off as bamboo when it is not. Real bamoo will not grow in water. In fact water can be use as abarrier to restrict the rampant spread of the rhizomes. look up the American Bamboo Society (better yet, join) and get some real bamboo growing in a pot or in your yard.
well there is bamboo and then there is BAMBOO. The stuff that grows in a jar full of water is NOT bamboo. I know you won't believe me but look it up for your self. the plant is a dracena...that is pawned off as bamboo when it is not. Real bamoo will not grow in water. In fact water can be use as abarrier to restrict the rampant spread of the rhizomes. look up the American Bamboo Society (better yet, join) and get some real bamboo growing in a pot or in your yard.
