Don't throw away lucky bamboo just because its leaves turn yellow - here's how to make it lush and leafy again

Even if the leaves of your lucky bamboo turn yellow, don't throw it away. Here's a method to make it lush and leafy again.

As quality of life improves, more and more families grow flowers and plants at home. When some people buy flowers, the plants are lush and leafy, but when they grow them themselves, they find that before long the plants start to slowly turn yellow. Take lucky bamboo as an example: its leaves often turn yellow, and even its stems and roots slowly turn yellow. So when we see a lucky bamboo we bought only recently turning yellow, we get the urge to throw it away. Although lucky bamboo isn't expensive - about 10 yuan for a big bunch - watching the lucky bamboo we bought go to waste like that still feels a little painful.

So let's try to rescue that lucky bamboo and see how to make it turn green again! First, cut the stem and roots at a 45-degree angle, then soak it in water, and after that place it in a warm, bright spot so it can grow fully.

After caring for it this way for a period of time, it will return to how it looked before. Many flower lovers have grown lucky bamboo for years without any problems at all, and the lucky bamboo grows better and better, rising higher segment by segment. But some flower lovers can never grow it well - after a while it turns yellow. So the following factors have been summed up.

The first point: lucky bamboo has too many leaves

You could say that a newly bought lucky bamboo has a lot of leaves, and if it has no root system, its leaves are even more likely to turn yellow. The best approach is to trim away the excess leaves, which lets the stems and roots grow better and prevents excessive consumption of the lucky bamboo's nutrients. The leaves near the stems and roots should not be kept - they all need to be trimmed off.

The second point: the water quality may be too poor

Lucky bamboo can be said to be a fairly easy plant to grow. If it withers and turns yellow after only a few days, it may be a water quality problem. It's best to grow lucky bamboo in rainwater or purified water for the first 3 to 5 days, and once it has grown strong, growing it in tap water afterward basically won't cause leaves to turn yellow.

The third point: unsuitable sunlight

Lucky bamboo is itself a plant that grows in the tropics, so the temperature can't be too low, nor can it be too high. If the temperature is too high, the lucky bamboo may be scorched to death by the sun, but if the temperature is too low that won't work either. So the most suitable temperature is between 5°C and 10°C.

Let me share with you the secret to caring for lucky bamboo. Lucky bamboo is a plant that greatly loves iron, so when we grow lucky bamboo, we can put a rusty iron nail in its soil or water. That way the lucky bamboo will grow lush and verdant in such an environment. If you see that the water the lucky bamboo is in has become cloudy, then it's time to change the water, because cloudy water may lack the various trace elements the lucky bamboo needs.