Find Your Ask The Expert: What do i do with a heart shaped bamboo that has no roots? Do i just put it in water? Do i need to cut it first? One stalk is turning yellow … Why?
Flower Shop Network Plant Expert Reply:
The stalk is turning yellow because it is stressed. When you cut lucky bamboo from it roots you need to dip it in rooting hormone, let the hormone dry and then place in water. This will help the stalk produce roots. You need to re-cut the stalk and dip in rooting hormone which you can get at your local nursery garden center. Then place back in water. In a few weeks it should have formed new roots.
Watch the stalk if it becomes yellow and mushy, you have lost that particular part of the plant and it will need to be removed and discarded.
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