Environmental Benefits of Lucky Bamboo and a Home Care Guide
Lucky bamboo is also called longevity bamboo, fortune bamboo, and lucky tower, carrying the meaning of "flowers blooming bring wealth and honor, bamboo brings peace." Common varieties include green-leaf, silver-edged, golden-edged and silver-centered types. The stems of lucky bamboo are tall, upright and thick, and the leaves are deep green, lance-shaped and full of vitality. Many flower growers find after keeping lucky bamboo that although it is easy to grow, it readily develops yellow leaves, which greatly reduces its ornamental value. This is actually inseparable from the daily care of lucky bamboo. Below, the editor of Huinong Network will talk with you about the environmental benefits and care guide for lucky bamboo.
1. Environmental benefits
Lucky bamboo can absorb large amounts of harmful gases from the air and release large amounts of oxygen, which is quite beneficial for purifying indoor air and eliminating odors. As a water-grown plant, lucky bamboo allows water to evaporate freely and has an obvious effect in regulating air humidity.
2. Care guide
(1) Soil selection
Lucky bamboo likes shady, moist conditions. For pot cultivation, it is best to choose paddy fields that are convenient for irrigation and drainage and have loose, fertile soil. For potting, a mix of leaf mold, vegetable garden soil and river sand can be used, or coconut coir and leaf mold, cinder ash plus a small amount of chicken manure, peanut meal and compound fertilizer can be mixed as the growing medium.
(2) Light
Lucky bamboo by nature likes shady, moist and high-temperature conditions, and prefers a semi-shaded environment.
(3) Temperature
Lucky bamboo grows best at room temperature of 20-28°C, and the overwintering temperature should not be lower than 2°C.
(4) Watering
During the growing season, keep the potting soil moist. In summer, spray water on the leaf surface frequently to maintain air humidity around the plant. In winter, water must be appropriately controlled, but the leaves should still be sprayed with water frequently.
(5) Fertilizing
Lucky bamboo likes fertilizer, but it is not tolerant of raw fertilizer or strong fertilizer. For water-grown lucky bamboo, it is best to add a few drops of brandy or other nutrient solution into the bottle about every 3 weeks. In addition, during spring, summer and autumn, apply water from decomposed and fermented sesame paste residue once every half month, while in winter generally no fertilizer is applied.
(6) Propagation
Lucky bamboo is mainly propagated by cuttings, generally in spring. First cut off the stem and cut it into 5-10 cm leafless stem nodes as cuttings, insert them into clean coarse river sand, water thoroughly, cover with a plastic bag, and roots can form in about one month.
(7) Pruning
When pruning lucky bamboo, note that its roots must not be cut off, otherwise it cannot live long. In addition, for plants cultivated for many years, when there are too many or too long branches, thin them out promptly so as to keep the plant shape neat and display the upright, elegant and vigorous charm of bamboo.
(8) Placement and display
Lucky bamboo has upright stems and emerald green, slender leaves, and stays green in both winter and summer. It can be potted or have its stems cut for bottle display or made into a lucky bamboo tower, with well-arranged layers and a noble and elegant shape. It can be placed long-term in the living room, bedroom, entrance hall and other places, and can also be placed in office settings.
The above is the environmental benefits and care guide for lucky bamboo compiled by the editor of Huinong Network. Although lucky bamboo has strong vitality, common care factors such as light and water must still be well controlled, so that the lucky bamboo you grow can be strong and green.
How to get lucky bamboo safely through summer? A comprehensive summer guide for lucky bamboo
Lucky bamboo is a green plant variety with high ornamental value and good symbolism. It is said that keeping lucky bamboo at home can bring the meaning of attracting wealth and good fortune and prosperity and auspiciousness to the home, so it can be said to be a very popular green plant. But as midsummer arrives, many lucky bamboo plants begin to look listless. How can lucky bamboo get safely through summer? Below, the editor brings you a comprehensive summer guide for lucky bamboo.
Increase shade and humidity
The best growing temperature environment for lucky bamboo is around 25°C, so once the temperature exceeds this, shading measures must be taken. Once the temperature exceeds 35°C, in addition to shading measures, some humidifying measures should also be taken, such as spraying some clean water on the leaf surface of lucky bamboo to keep the leaf surface moist, which can also have a partial cooling effect.
Strong light is most taboo
Lucky bamboo is not a plant that loves light, so the editor suggests that in hot summer it can be moved indoors to a position with partial scattered light for care, avoiding direct strong light, and do not care for it in a fully shaded environment either.
Keep away from electrical appliances
Because summer temperatures are relatively high, many flower growers choose to place lucky bamboo near indoor air conditioners and fans, hoping to achieve a cooling effect. But the drawbacks of this placement far outweigh the benefits. Air conditioners, fans and lamps, as household appliances, all carry radiation. 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 stagnate.
Control fertilizing
In summer, the growth rate of lucky bamboo declines somewhat compared with other seasons, and its demand for nutrients is not strong, so in summer the fertilizing frequency for lucky bamboo at home does not need to be too high; basically applying it once a month is enough.
Can be converted to hydroponics
If you find soil cultivation of lucky bamboo too troublesome in summer, you can consider converting it to hydroponic care. Converting from soil culture to water culture is relatively easy. Carefully dig the lucky bamboo out of the soil, wash it clean with water, and then grow it in a medium that has been fully disinfected and sterilized.
The above is the comprehensive summer guide for lucky bamboo compiled by the editor of Huinong Network. Have you all learned it? Whether lucky bamboo can smoothly get through summer without affecting its ornamental value depends on the careful care of each flower grower.