Find Your Ask the Expert: When does the Blooming “Lucky Bamboo” put on bloom
At what time of year can I expect this blooming lucky bamboo to bloom? When I bought this one others were blooming and that was 11 months ago now. Tippie
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Tippie,
I haven’t seen lucky bamboo bloom. Although all plants bloom at some point, the blooms may be small and insignificant or may take several years to occur. According to my sources, lucky bamboo has not been known to bloom in cultivation — only in the wild. I scanned the internet for image of lucky bamboo blooms — some were definitely miss representations. It was evident that other blooms like orchid blooms were attached to the lucky bamboo. I assume a lucky bamboo bloom would look like a corn plant bloom, since both are in the Dracaena genus. In this case, the blooms would be small flowers with tubular bases and 6 spreading tepals. In nature Dracaenas bloom in the summer. However, when we bring plants into our homes the natural blooming cycle is often inhibited. My resources indicate that Dracaenas only bloom when the plants are mature and several years old. The grower where your stalks cam from may have a way to force lucky bamboo to bloom. Unforunately, I don’t know how to make lucky bamboo bloom. My thought is that it will take at least a couple of years before it will bloom on its own. Hopefully one of our readers will know the answer.
I recently bought a lucky bamboo from Walmart because I had a small bamboo plant while in college and love it! And thought I would enjoy one again! Although we had to put it on top of the the kitchen stand so the cat wouldn’t get to it or eat it!
And just yesterday my boyfriend mentioned that I needed to water it because it was turning red! Well, here it had bloomed! A beautiful, hug, bright red flower!
(I will post a photo later)
Awesome. I have never seen one bloom.
I am amazed and in awe!!!
I literally threw my lucky bamboo plant outside about a year ago depressed and feeling as though my luck was literally a direct coronation with my luck dying.
This is what happened….
I seriously feel just speechless because I have yet to find a picture or situation as such anywhere!!
Sadie,
That is amazing! I have never see it with blooms.
Thank you! I am still in absolute awe!! It is still blooming and has numerous buds!! I’ve called a few places and they think I’m crazy :D which I am BUT it has nothing to do with my flowering bamboo. Lol. I am very excited, however, because I talked to two different ladies today and I’m pretty sure they are going to look into it. I’m convinced I have an extreme rarity!! I cannot find photos of the like anywhere! :)
Amazing!!
Over three feet…I’ll measure it later :)
Wait!!! STOP THE PRESS!!!!!! my luck is still just as sad as ever!!! The beautiful pictures I’ve been posting is NOT A BEAUTIFUL BAMBOO!!! I repeat nooooooot a bamboo!!!
I’m lol!!! I was crying….but now I can laugh…. I thought I had a miraculous rarity!!!! Come to find out…
I HAVE A SPIDERWORT!!!!! WOOOOOOW WHAT A NAME!! I think the name sums up my humiliation here.
Thank u…thank u….
I’ll finding my way out immediately!!
;(
SADIE RONE – Yes, and Spiderwort is a very hardy plant too! I live in Zone 5, in the U.S. and i have huge clumps of it all over the place. I cut it all down to about 2 1/2 inches in September, and to my amazement it bloomed again in October!!!
I’m also looking for a bamboo type plant that flowers, i have one, and it flowered last year for the first time in many years. It’s flower looks like the flower on a Peace Lillie, but it’s not a Peace Lillie.
My lucky bamboo plant flowers often but only once I planted it outside and it is now very tall.
Recently, I brought some cutting from my lucky bamboo and amazingly it sent out a shoot with flowers.
See photo.
Dar,
I have never seen one bloom that is awesome.
I have a lucky bamboo I’ve had for about 12 years. It bloomed this week and it is awesome.
mine has fowered but it is not piurple like the jpeg showen mine is yellow & tiny
Bamboo blooming is often seen as a bad thing in Asian culture. Just read an article by Ms Schroeder. It is very informative and can explain why Asian culture considers it bad.
Clarification : Schroeder didn’t say it was a bad thing. it’s just a culture myth. But her article kind of explains it.
Hi Linda,
That’s very interesting! Do you happen to have a link to the article?
Hi,
I woke up to big surprise & very happy to see the lotus bamboo bloom for the first time in almost 3-4 years in my home.
Its beautiful & fragrance is so soothing.
Much love from,
India,
My lucky bamboo has bloomed twice in 22 years. It’s perfume is so strong!!!