Lucky Bamboo

Scientific Name: Dracaena sanderiana

Water: Usually grown in a vase or container of rocks and water. To grow in soil see the care sheet for Dracaenas.

Light: Indirect or bright-diffused light is best.

Temperature: 60-85

Humidity: Medium to High

The Lucky Bamboo is a distinctive and beautiful tropical plant that has naked branches ending in tufts of sword-shaped leaves. Its stalk won't grow any taller once cut, as it is the leaves of the plant that grow and slowly develop into stalks themselves. Once a leaf has developed into a stalk, it can be clipped at its base where it was sprouted and placed in distilled water to start more bamboo. Lucky Bamboo has become very popular in recent years. It is an extremely easy to grow plant which is not really a bamboo at all. The Lucky Bamboo are slow growing and will tolerate most types of growing conditions but thrive on neglect.

Supplementation is recommended unless you place a fish such as fighting fish or beta in the container. Neither water nor soil contains the vitamins, minerals and hormones that are found in Lucky Bamboo's natural growing environment. We recomend diluting a high quality plant fertilizer to a 1/4 dilution if you do not add a beta fish.

If you add a fish with your lucky bamboo, it will provide nutrients to the water that should be enough for this plant. You don't want to add fertilizer with the fish, as this may also harm the fish.