Bamboo plants anyone??????

i took a bamboo plant from a place nearby and planted it in a pot. there was not many roots at all and the leaves look dry. this mornig it looked likeit came back to life, the leaves were full and alive, then in the afternoon they dried out in like two hours. What should i do? will it live or should i give up on it? i also found a rootless bamboo shoot and i stuck it in the ground will that grow at all????

Bamboo plants anyone??????
Meera is right. Bamboo can get away from you when it finally takes hold. In its natural tropical habitat it can grow a foot a day! Obviously that won't happen here. But the roots can get so thick they will stall out a gas lawnmower. I know, my grandpop planted this stuff.





If you like the way it looks, get some large pots and grow it in the containers, this way it can't take over your yard.





It is a very hardy "weed". Water it and use basic fertilizer like 10-10-10 and it'll take off. We tried to kill it with rock salt, gasoline and whatever we could find in the shed to no avail. Industrial strength Roundup finally wiped it out of granpops yard. So in light of that I gurantee your root stub will take hold.
Reply:hon, bamboo grows wildly..r u sure this is what u want to do?? In my neighborhood there is a break in the land and there is wild bamboo %26amp; it looks so awful!!


But if you must-they need full sunlight and shade too-just like in the jungles-water %26amp; fertilize aggressively. A humid room is best for them.
Reply:I know that bamboo is a different type of plant. They reproduce by sending out shoots from the base of the plant along the ground quite a ways that will become new trees.
Reply:Are you sure it's bamboo? I was told the plant I was given is indoor bamboo but when I looked it up, on line, I learned differently. OK...I just used the Research your Answer field and...well, go see. I was wrong. I'm going to go look at pictures and find out what I have. Thanks for the question, I'll learn something good too! My bamboo is the second web site. Good luck with yours.