January 4, 2009
How to make a cutting of bamboo grow?
Can you answer Fatmanbackround's question about Bamboo?:
I want to take a bamboo and make another. the 1st one isn't mine but how do i take a cutting and make it grow? or should i just take the whole freaking plant and put it in the ground?
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I want to take a bamboo and make another. the 1st one isn't mine but how do i take a cutting and make it grow? or should i just take the whole freaking plant and put it in the ground?
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Mine grows easy in a little bit of water to cover one of the nodes.I have 3 growing this way.No soil at all.
Just cut off a piece of the stem,including nodes.Place into a small container with water and give it some sunlight.It will grow.
I think you need patience. I have my lucky baboo in water and she/he is doing just fine. I would think you will find the answer. I have a grapefruit tree, because that is exactly what came about from a seed, she/he is 6 foot tall. Pretty amazing, it is hard for me to "throuw" a plant away, although I have done so.Good Luck,you will get that bamboo shoot to grow, I am doing the same with mine after a long winter.
I've never made a cutting work, i managed to get a very healthy plant (black bamboo)going for my granny, by digging down where one of the new shoots came up and cutting it with some roots attached. this did work, but I've also been told that i could split the root ball as well, as long as i gave it a good soaking.
I've found the best way is to take cuttings from the root. I've tried taking cuttings from the canes but have had little success.
Technique 1. (for lots of cuttings)
Clear some of the soil/compost away from the roots (rhizomes). Here you should be able to find good strong pieces of root with one or more soft upward shoots (anywhere up to about 6 inches in length) This is where you would take small cuttings (ie roots plus shoots).
Technique 2. (division)
The other way is to split the plant in halves quarters or whatever, at the root (much as you would a herbaceous perrenial) each new seperate clump is a new bamboo. I use this one all the time. This way you have a ready made plant.
P.s. Lucky bamboo is really a Draceana (Dragon Plant)! Completely different family of plant and isn't bamboo at all.
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Well are we talking lucky bamboo (that small green stuff that sits in water indoors) or real bamboo (that tall leafy stuff that grows outdoors and that pandas eat)???
If it is lucky bamboo, yes it is a Dracaena and this site will help you out greatly:
If it is the outdoors stuff, then the most common way of propagating it is through division. Many of the tropical clumpers can be propagated using cuttings, air layering and whole culm burial, but none of the runners be propagated this way.
Cuttings can only be done with clumping bamboos. Runners must be done through clump division or grown from seed.