Here's the deal: I brought a potted bamboo plant to work with me around a year ago, and it wasn't much more than 8" tall, including the pot. Now, the thing's almost 2 ft. high... and still going strong. It's only been under a florescent light and I've been giving it bottled water (that I get free at work). The other bamboo that I have, at home, is near a window and receives pretty good sun, gets bottled water as well, and isn't doing even half as well as my work friend. So, I'm wondering how this could be, since I have no clue how plants operate and all that.
BTW, my work bamboo is named Wasabi.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c64/str8ruckus/bamboo.jpg
2007-10-19 07:14:13 · 10 answers · asked by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Didn't figure "it" out yet, but I'm still Columbo-ing around...
2007-10-19 09:58:58 · update #1
First of all, your bamboo is not bamboo--it is Dracaena Sandriana: http://www.plant-care.com/lucky-bamboo.html
People think it is bamboo because it is called Lucky Bamboo but it is really not related in any way. Yours is particularly nice, partly because it doesn't like direct sunlight and you have it in indirect light, and...the water should be changed once a week--you have been giving it purified water--so it is responding well to that. Please read the info on the website--because you do NOT need to fertilize this plant. It is doing well where it is so don't change what you are doing.
On the other hand, your home plant is not doing as well because it is getting to much sun--sun is not good for some house plants.
Hope this helps. You have a beautiful specimen.
2007-10-19 16:18:03 · answer #1 · answered by Bromeliad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have a small bamboo plant that's nearly a year old & it hasn't grown any since i got it. i leave it by the window sill & give it well water. Maybe it has something to do w/ the florescent light vs. regular sunlight. Wasabi is beautiful, whatever you're doing for it is agreeing w/ it. Just keep it up.
2007-10-19 07:21:37 · answer #2 · answered by Ms Starr 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Try changing the water in the one at home. You might consider that they're two different bamboo plants, too. I've got two brand new ones and they're pretty small still, but growing fast. I change the water in them approximately once a week.
2007-10-19 07:25:14 · answer #3 · answered by dark eyes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All bamboo grows fast
2007-10-19 07:17:43 · answer #4 · answered by 4 strings 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe it likes the fluorescent light.
if your window is facing north or south it's not getting direct sunlight.
maybe it needs that..
or try pouring out the old water before putting in new water
2007-10-19 07:46:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the one I had at home didn't do well either
It was the loose sticks self planted
all my other plants do great
you name your plants? :) gee, I thought I was wierd for naming all the fish in my aquarium. just ask Eely Dan. (um, he's an eel)
LOL at Spider's answer
did you ever figure that one out?
2007-10-19 07:18:30 · answer #6 · answered by Jenae, TV (tempter of the vile) 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Possibly it needs repotting with new soil, sounds as if everything else is about the same.
2007-10-19 07:34:11 · answer #7 · answered by orangecrush 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it probably is healthier.
2007-10-19 07:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by Antonio G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you've been ejaculating into it haven't you? or maybe jaime has! that's hot.
2007-10-19 07:17:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
no
2007-10-19 07:16:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋