How to care for lucky bamboo in summer? A guide to getting through the hot summer safely

Lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana) is an indoor green plant that combines ornamental value with feng shui significance, with slender leaves and an elegant posture that is very pleasing to the eye. And keeping a pot of it at home can also bring the meaning of attracting wealth and good fortune, making it a very popular green plant.

However, recently the temperature has been rising higher and higher, and a couple of days ago the news even reported that the ground surface temperature in Beijing had reached over 60 degrees, an environment that is extremely unfavorable for the growth of lucky bamboo.

With the hot summer upon us, are you sure your lucky bamboo at home is ready for this summer? Don't worry, here is a comprehensive summer care guide for lucky bamboo for all you flower lovers, in the hope that everyone's lucky bamboo can make it through this summer safely.

Increase shade and humidity

Generally speaking, the optimal growing temperature for lucky bamboo is around 25°C, and the high temperatures of summer clearly exceed what this green plant can tolerate, so shading lucky bamboo in summer is important and necessary.

Especially once the temperature exceeds 35 degrees, in addition to the necessary shading measures, you should also combine some humidifying methods; you can spray some clean water on the surface of the lucky bamboo leaves to keep the leaf surface moist, which also has a partial cooling effect.

Strong light is the worst enemy

Lucky bamboo is not a plant that loves light, and it especially dislikes direct strong light. If lucky bamboo is exposed to sunlight for too long in summer, white spots will slowly appear on the surface of its leaves, affecting the plant's normal growth.

Therefore, the editor suggests that in summer you can move lucky bamboo to an indoor spot with some indirect light for care, avoiding direct strong light, and it is best not to keep it in a fully shaded environment either.

Keep away from appliances

In summer, because the weather is too hot, many flower lovers place lucky bamboo near indoor air conditioners and fans to cool things down, hoping to achieve a cooling effect.

But in fact, the drawbacks of this placement far outweigh the benefits. Air conditioners, fans and other household appliances all emit radiation, and if lucky bamboo is placed too close to these appliances, it will instead easily cause the leaves to wither and turn yellow, and growth to stall.

Control fertilizing

In summer, the growth rate of lucky bamboo slows down compared with other seasons, and its demand for nutrients is not strong either, so in summer you do not need to fertilize your lucky bamboo too often; basically once a month is enough.

Can be converted to water culture

If you find soil growing lucky bamboo too troublesome in summer, you can consider converting it to water culture, which is not only more convenient to care for, but also looks more refreshing and elegant.

Converting from soil culture to water culture is fairly easy: carefully dig the lucky bamboo out of the soil, wash it clean with water, and then grow it in a culture medium that has been fully disinfected and sterilized.

To avoid the situation where the water culture medium itself lacks nutrients, you can put vitamin tablets in the water to provide sufficient nutrients for the growth of lucky bamboo. Generally speaking, putting one VC tablet in about 500ml of water is enough, once or twice a month.

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