Help, I think my Lucky Bamboo plant is dying.?
Question:I've had this Lucky Bamboo plant for 4 years. The 3 stalks have not survived, but I saved 3 buds that grew on them. I replanted the new buds in the same pot. I always keep the water level high. I've never fed them any fertilizer, although I use filtered water as opposed to tap. I'm worred that they might die since the leaves are turning yellowish. Am I watering them too much? I bought some "MiracleGro" Indoor Plant Food Spikes, is that ok to use? Should I get a bigger pot?
Answers:
i have found using spring water to be the best. i change it once a week. add just enough water to cover the roots. i have to keep trimming mine because they touch the ceiling.
My feelings.
wow congrats on keeping it around that long. the plant itself isn't actually bamboo and their lives are seldom lucky. its a chunk cut from a stalk of dracaena and would greatly prefer to be in soil. it is a vigorous grower when in soil and remains remarkably stunted but alive when kept in shallow water for a couple of years. it is a close relative the "corn" plant -- another dracaena variety that grows in extremely adverse conditions and popular houseplant.
in general using filtered water on plants is not a good idea -- filters filter out the natural particulates (metals and things) that would help the plant grow.
if you want to salvage the plant the only advice i could give is put the puds in moist soil in a well drained pot and grow a happy dracaena plant.
quite hard to sustain the that kind of bamboo..
because most of it its for decoration..
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