How Often Should You Water Soil-Grown Lucky Bamboo?

1. How Often to Water It

There is currently no literature specifying a fixed schedule; it is just that the soil-grown method requires frequent watering so that the environment around its soil stays consistently moist, which is more beneficial to its growth.

2. Watering Methods

1. It likes a moist growing environment. During its growing period, keep its soil moist, and the humidity in the air also needs to be kept at a certain level.

2. In spring and autumn, its soil needs to stay moist. If you water it at this time, you can decide based on the condition of the surface soil; once the soil is dry, you can water it.

3. When watering it in summer, besides keeping its soil moist, you also need to mist its leaves every day to help raise the air humidity.

3. In winter, because the temperature is still relatively low, its growth rate is still relatively slow at this time. If you water it, you must not give too much; you need to be restrained, but it also must not get too dry. Moreover, when watering it in the depths of winter, you must pay attention to the water temperature, otherwise the water will freeze and damage the roots, which would be bad.

3. Precautions for Soil Growing

1. In the depths of winter, if the temperature drops below minus five degrees, it needs to be moved indoors immediately, because its optimal growing temperature is 18 to 25 degrees.

2. Normally it only needs indirect light; if the light is insufficient, its leaves will lose their luster.

3. Its growing period is from April to October. During this time, when watering it, you need to do so once every three to five days, and apply a fertilizer such as nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium once about every half month.