my new lucky bamboo - How to Care for it?

[Seananers]

hello to all you beautiful people out there. My best friend ryan brought me over a lucky bamboo plant as a gift but I have a bit of a problem... I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THIS THING! so am asking for any advise on the care of this little guy. I really like it and I don't want it to die so any help would be very much appreciated

[imafan26]

Change the water every couple of days and don't let it dry out. It can some good light like a flourescent above it. You can grow it near a window but you will have to keep turning it. It is in fact, how the coiled lucky bamboo, really a dracena, is trained to curl.

[Seananers]

Should I repot it into a bigger pot because the pot it came with is only like 4 inches tall and 3 inches wide.

[rainbowgardener]

It can stay in the little pot for a long time.



I had one that I kept in the little pot until it was so tall and huge it was too top heavy.

I had it in my bathroom with no light except what came in the frosted bathroom window and I never did anything for it except keep the water changed (no fertilizer, etc). It thrived!

When it had outgrown the the bathroom space, I tried to bring it outdoors and promptly killed it. It just curled up and died when direct sun hit it.

[imafan26]

It needs to be trained to the sun, otherwise it is an understory plant for a shady spot. Mine outgrew the pot too and I have it next to my orchid bench outside. It is about 2 ft tall.

[Seananers]

so in reality there isn't much care you need to provide besides watering and provide some indirect sunlight.

[rainbowgardener]

right, very easy!

[Seananers]

right, very easy!

if I would have known that it was that easy to take care of bamboo I would have gotten myself one already