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Lucky Bamboo

Dracaena sanderiana

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Zone 9-10 & Indoors

Lucky Bamboo, Dracaena sanderiana, is a very hot plant.  Sometimes selling for over $300, people are buying Lucky Bamboo for display as an indoor plant


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Lucky Bamboo is not a bamboo at all.  This is a Dracaena, a direct relative of the common corn plant you probably know, Dracaena fragrans, which is also a popular houseplant


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Imported from China, Korea and Taiwan, however, it is native to Cameroon, Africa


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Popularity is due to Lucky Bamboo being a new introduction for sale.   Also important is its ease of growth in typically poor conditions.  All you Black Thumbs out there will be happy

Some remarkable arrangements are possible:


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There is also variegated Luck Bamboo


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Grow Lucky Bamboo indoors almost anywhere, even in lower light conditions.  This plant wants typical household temperatures of about 60-80 degrees, but the warmer temps are better


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Place your Lucky Bamboo anywhere you want indoors except in direct sun.  Kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, all are suitable for Lucky Bamboo

The "trick" to long term growth and happiness is to plant in rich loose soil.  You most likely purchased your Lucky Bamboo in a container with water, but it actually needs to grow in normal soil

Also, the stones often associated with the plant when sold are nothing but decoration to get you to buy.  The plant does not like or want the rocks

If you leave your Lucky Bamboo in water, eventually, your Lucky Bamboo will die, sorry

 

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Some literature we have seen says "do not fertilize" which makes no sense.  What is correct is to feed normally with pellet food once your Lucky Bamboo is in planted in good soil

Everything else you read is wrong