Room bamboo - incredibly beautiful and surprising plant which has reached our apartments from open spaces of Asia. At the moment there are about 80 types of this exotic handsome. That the bamboo pleased you with the decorative look, it needs to provide comfortable conditions.
Care In house conditions bamboo can grow very long. However for this purpose it is necessary to follow elementary rules of leaving, that is to provide the correct lighting, watering, fertilizing, temperature and air humidity. The room bamboo very much loves the scattered bright light therefore it is better to put it on the southern, east and southwest windows. This exotic handsome needs fresh air, but it should be protected from drafts and strong wind. Provide abundant watering in the summer, and in the winter, on the contrary, reduce intake of liquid a little, but not to allow soil overdrying at all. As for air humidity, it has to be rather high therefore it is necessary to spray plant leaves often.
Reproduction
In specialized shops, seeds of room bamboo often meet, but in house conditions to grow up from them the full-fledged plant is impossible. It is independently possible to make multiple copies bamboo by division of rhizome or cherenkovaniye. To begin it it is the best of all to do in the spring when the plant gives young and strong escapes, and during change. To you the spacious pot and the dratsenovy soil will demand. Young escapes very much need sunlight, fertilizing twice a month and abundant watering.
The BolezniMelkiy dark stains which have appeared on leaves say that the plant is damaged by fungus. In this case it is necessary to process immediately leaves and trunk fungicides and more often to air the room. If you have noticed that the plant very slowly grows, increase dose of complex or organic fertilizing. At too low air temperature the leaves of bamboo become dark and soft. In rare instances they begin to be twisted and fall down. That the plant finally has not died, it is necessary to increase artificially air temperature in the room where it is.