What if you didn't cut lucky bamboo with a sharp knife?

Question

i wanted to cut my bamboo into two so that the other one would grow new roots. i cut them with scissors. is that okay? and they weren't sharp. the plant where i cut it from is beginning to dry up on the top. is that normal?

Answer 1

i would try a recut one knotch below your uneven cut. good luck!

Answer 2

After you recut with a sharp knife, light a white candle & drip the wax over the top of the stalk to seal the fresh cut. Otherwise it'll dry out from the top down. If it's already drying out on top, cut that part off then seal with the wax.

Answer 3

if i didn't cut it with a shrpe knife, i'd smack myself over the head with the bamboo.

Answer 4

I dislike the designation, LUCKY BAMBOO, and what you have is truly a sister plant in a similar species. In any case Rooting may be problematic, however keeping it in the situation most natural and condusive to growth is what you need do.

  NEW growth, if it happens at all, will bud and bloom from any JOINT below the cut, even as the cut, browns, dries, stops any growth from the cut area.

  No offense meant at all, but I assume you are somewhat naive about rooting. You state Cut my bamboo in two, yet followed that with "THEM".  Was there more than one shoot? OR did you chop a single shoot, assuming the top half would root?

  What is most likely to happen is, you will lose the cutting and the rooted section will still remain, albeit, perhaps in shock initially.

Steven Wolf

Just my two "sense"