How hard are Bamboo trees to take care of?

Question

I want to get one and I want to keep it in the corner. If Im setting myself up for wacky disasters. Please stop me with your plant knowledge

Answer 1

Bamboo is actually a kind of giant grass. Imagine what wheat would be like if it grew 30 feet tall. Many species of bamboo are smaller, but the thing to concider is what climate it will grow in. Many species are tropical and would die of exposed to frost. Black bamboo is from northern China and can be grown in temperate climates. As mentioned, it will spread by underground runners, so the roots have to be contained in some manner to stop it from growing into a forest eventually. Black bamboo is one of the large species. In the spring the new shoots are edible, but grow quickly - up to 12 inches a day. Finally, Bamboo flowers only once, sets seed and then dies.

Answer 2

Depends on what bamboo you are growing and where you are growing it. Bamboo is a grass, which which has an optimum range of full sun to partial shade. To quantify this, full sun is roughly 10,000 foot candles in Illinois in July. Part shade is about 3500-5000 or out door sun in Illinois in December. Any given household ranges from 500-2500 foot candles of light. At these light levels bamboo shed their leaves and should be given supplemental light to compensate.

So if your corner gets at least 8 hours of sunlight your bamboo should stay healthy. If not it might still survive but you'll have a lot of leaves for compost and bamboo fishing rods.

Answer 3

Bamboo is actually a type of grass, so its very easy to grow. In fact, some species grows so well in warm, moist, sunny environments that they have become invasive species in many parts of the world. Golden bamboo invasions have almost completely eliminated native riparian plants along rivers in the American South and the state of Washington.

Make sure you are growing a non-invasive species.

Answer 4

Not difficult at all, it grows like crazy. Your difficulty will be to stop it spreading and taking over the whole garden and the rest of the neighbourhood. You must contain the root system or you will never be able to get rid of it. Check that the variety you get is the clumping type, not the spreading type.

Oh, and they aren't trees, bamboo is related to grass.

Answer 5

If you grow it in water with rocks in the base of the container it is any easy plant to maintain. If you put it in dirt you will need to either keep it in the container or plant the entire container to keep the runners from taking over your entire yard with bamboo. If you do the water route, use distilled water to fill the container and add distilled water as needed when it evaporates. I had two turn yellow and die because I used regular tap water. My neighbor's is huge and she just keeps changing the size of the container as it grows.

Answer 6

Depends on your soil. At my grandmother's house, the stuff grows like a weed. I mean it, it has runners and grows everywhere she doesn't want it to grow.

I planted some where I live, and it died -- I tried several times too; lived a couple of years, never did make the big stalks.

Answer 7

I have mini Bamboo & they're not hard to take care of at all.

Answer 8

easy.may need more sun than a corner can provide until established

Answer 9

every couple of days just water them, and once a year prune them so they dont get TO big. thats it, easy

Answer 10

they are not hard... watch out for fungus attacks