What is the best water for growing lucky bamboo? Share of hydroponic care tips
Compared with soil cultivation, hydroponic lucky bamboo often has more advantages, mainly because placing it indoors can make the room look cleaner, and care and management are also more convenient. Therefore, many gardening friends who like lucky bamboo prefer to grow it hydroponically at home. However, hydroponics also has a downside, and that is the water. On one hand, it is the choice of water quality; on the other hand, it is the hydroponic method. Both require us to master a certain amount of knowledge.
People often ask: what is the best water for growing lucky bamboo? This is mainly about water quality. Actually, it does not matter what water is the best, but we can say what water is better. This is because hydroponic lucky bamboo has relatively high requirements for water quality. Therefore, this determines what kind of water quality is more conducive to the plant's growth. But this is often only relative. Because even with slightly poorer water quality, as long as we can scientifically and reasonably increase and adjust nutrients during later care and management, it is possible to grow it well.
According to normal care thinking, we cannot directly use tap water for hydroponics. This is because fresh tap water will more or less contain chlorine that is unsuitable for plant growth. If tap water must be used, then it also needs to be left standing for 2-3 days in advance, or placed in sunlight for 1 day and used after it cools. Only in this way can the water quality be ensured to be safe for lucky bamboo.
If everyone finds using tap water to grow lucky bamboo troublesome, we can use relatively pure bottled water. Bottled water is not only rich in minerals and other nutrients beneficial to the human body, but the same is true for lucky bamboo. Using bottled water is relatively beneficial for promoting the growth of lucky bamboo, so we should make it the first choice. The only thing is that bottled water often requires us to spend money to buy, and from this point of view, the cost may be a bit higher than tap water.
However, before hydroponic lucky bamboo grows roots, in order to promote rooting, we need to appropriately add some nutrients to the water. There are many ways to add nutrients, such as nutrient solution, vitamin C1, or a full-element compound fertilizer, and so on. But we cannot add chemical fertilizer to the water, because chemical fertilizer is a chemical fertilizer made through chemical and physical means. Moreover, chemical fertilizer, as an inorganic fertilizer, is often unsuitable for the growth of ornamental plants.
In addition, for hydroponic lucky bamboo that has just rooted, it is not suitable to change the water frequently. Usually, when the water line is seen to drop, simply add clean water to it. If you want to grow hydroponic lucky bamboo well, you also need to pay attention to regulating the temperature well. As long as the temperature is kept between 20-35°C, it is suitable for the plant's growth. But if the temperature drops below 10°C, the plant will basically be in a state of stagnant growth, and if the temperature drops below 5°C, frost damage is likely to occur.
In addition, there are other care details to pay attention to, and everyone should summarize more in practice. It can be seen that besides water quality and watering methods, there are still many aspects that affect the plant's growth.