What are the dos and don'ts of keeping bamboo at home? Latest answers
Bamboo holds a unique place in Chinese culture. Combining flexibility with hardness, it is a symbol of virtue and is therefore deeply loved by Chinese people. Along with plum, orchid and chrysanthemum, it is called one of the Four Gentlemen, and along with plum and pine it is called one of the Three Friends of Winter. Through the ages, there have been a great many scholars and writers who loved and praised bamboo. Now let us take a look together at the dos and don'ts of keeping bamboo at home!
What feng shui effect does bamboo have?
Bamboo is the best auspicious object for using plants to dissolve negative energy. In feng shui, baleful energy poses a threat to a house and needs to be blocked. Walls can be used to block it, but while walls block the baleful energy of a road rush, they also block the auspicious energy when fortune is good. For using trees to block baleful energy, bamboo is the first choice. Bamboo is elegant and upright, noble and refined, with a pleasant fresh fragrance, uniform in appearance, arranged consistently, appropriately dense or sparse, and suitable for both blocking and allowing through. This quality of both blocking and allowing through makes baleful energy stop while letting auspicious energy enter, which makes bamboo a great contributor to dissolving baleful energy in feng shui.
What are the dos and don'ts of keeping bamboo at home?
1. Bamboo has the effect of generating wealth, so it is very suitable for placement in the wealth position, but you cannot use an overly heavy vase to grow bamboo, nor can you add too much water to the vase. You can tie a red ribbon around the bamboo, which is both attractive and can dissolve the leakage of wealth energy.
2. In feng shui, bamboo is used to promote official career fortune and academic fortune, and compared with promoting wealth, bamboo is more effective at promoting literary fortune. If there is a child in the home who is studying, bamboo can be used to achieve the effect of promoting literary fortune.
3. When bamboo is placed on an office desk, it is best placed in the upper left corner. This position generally faces the sun and can fully absorb sunlight. In addition, the placement position of bamboo also needs to be near a balcony, and it can be placed to the right of a floor-to-ceiling window.
How do you grow bamboo so it thrives?
1. Soil: Bamboo likes acidic or neutral soil and avoids heavy clay and alkaline soil. You can use fertile, loose sandy soil, or use farmland soil mixed with leaf mold and fine sand to increase the soil's air permeability.
2. Flower pot: Bamboo is a shallow-rooted plant, so you can choose a pot with a shallower mouth. After planting, pair it with some ornamental stones or moss to increase the ornamental value of the bamboo and make it look fresher and more elegant.
3. Watering: Bamboo likes moisture and fears waterlogging. Newly transplanted bamboo should first be watered thoroughly. In daily care, do not water too much. In summer, water every day and spray the leaves, while in winter reduce watering to prevent cold damage.
4. Fertilizing: When planting bamboo, organic fertilizer should be mixed into the potting soil. After normal growth, apply appropriate additional fertilizer, and follow the principle of light fertilizer applied frequently. In spring and summer, you can apply 0.5% urea or 1.0% compound fertilizer with water.
5. Pests and diseases: The main insect pests of bamboo are bamboo aphids, bamboo scale insects and so on, which can be sprayed with insecticide. The main diseases are sooty mold and witches' broom, and so on. Management should be strengthened and diseased plants pruned promptly.
6. Pruning: Bamboo grows relatively quickly, so it should be pruned in good time, removing old growth and keeping tender growth, removing dense growth and keeping sparse growth, and removing weak growth and keeping strong growth. When repotting each year, dead branches should be appropriately removed so that the plant shape remains graceful.