How to prune lucky bamboo

Pruning of yellow leaves of lucky bamboo

When growing lucky bamboo, it is sometimes necessary to trim the yellow leaves. Although there is generally no need to trim the leaves, when you find dead and yellow leaves, you still need to cut off the yellow leaves to avoid affecting the appearance of the lucky bamboo. Just pick off the yellow leaves by hand or gently cut them off with scissors. Similarly, if the branches of lucky bamboo turn yellow and dry, you can cut off the dry and yellow parts, or just throw away the whole branch.

Pruning of lucky bamboo shoots

There are always some buds growing on the lucky bamboo plant. If these buds grow longer, more numerous, or grow unevenly, it will affect its appreciation. It is best to prune them.

When pruning the buds of lucky bamboo, use scissors to cut off the excess or overly long buds 0.5 cm away from the plant. After pruning, let the cut ends dry and then disinfect them by soaking them in potassium permanganate solution. After disinfection, replant.

For uneven buds, you can cut them neatly.

Root pruning of lucky bamboo

The root pruning of lucky bamboo is mainly carried out when its roots are rotten, and the second is to prune the fibrous roots that are too long or too many.

The cause of root rot of lucky bamboo may be bacterial invasion or root damage. If you prune it at this time, you need to be more forceful to cut off the rotten parts of the lucky bamboo and keep the intact parts. After pruning, the plants must be disinfected and dried before being replanted. New roots will grow in about half a month.

If the fibrous roots grow too much, cut off some of them and keep the taproot.

In addition, lucky bamboo sometimes needs to be trimmed for shaping. This mainly depends on the specific shape to be created, and the specific trimming depends on the shape. I hope everyone can trim beautiful lucky bamboo!