Bamboo is a thermophilic plant, which according to the teachings of feng shui brings happiness to the house. Gardeners-lovers do not abandon attempts to grow this evergreen perennial on their private plot, because some varieties tolerate frosts rather hard, and live up to 120 years! At home, you can try to grow bamboo from seeds.
How to grow bamboo from seeds?
To do this, it is necessary to build a mini-greenhouse with peat pills as a planting medium, although it is possible to prepare the substrate itself from 8 parts of nutrient soil, 1 part of wood ash and one part of the husk of cereal crops or sawdust. In the case of peat tablets, they should be well moistened with freshly boiled water, so that they swell. Those who are interested in planting blue bamboo with seeds should be soaked for the last day in water at a temperature of 30 ° C. Now you need to loosen a little of the top of the tablets and put one seed in each.
On top, they can be sprinkled with a soil mixture for seedlings and filled with a specially prepared pallet. The pallet is placed in a glass container with a lid, and if there is not one, then it can be covered with a polyethylene film. The greenhouse environment should be ventilated up to three times a day, and a mini-greenhouse should be kept on a window with medium shade and in no case should it be placed under direct sunlight. While doing bamboo at home, do not forget to regularly moisten the substrate. The first sprouts may appear 10 days after planting, but most often it takes 15-20 days. A month later the sprouts can be transplanted into separate pots.
Resuscitation of ungrown seeds
Such conditions of growing bamboo can not provide 100% germination, but do not rush to throw empty tablets. They can be placed in a soil consisting of a quality soil and mulch from a tree bark. The tablet should be below the ground level by half a centimeter. Substrate should be watered abundantly and put the pots in the penumbra. You can leave the tablets in a glass container, filling the space between them with soil for seedlings and also lightly sprinkle them with earth. Putting the container in a sunny place, the soil should be moistened daily. As soon as the grown bamboo grows strong and reaches half a meter in height, it can be transplanted into the garden in the spring, when the soil gets warm enough.