Office plant thrives!
By n2organics
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This is most interesting..
Two years ago my wife gave me two bamboo shoots that she had purchased from a local grocery store. The bamboo was about 1/2 inch by 6 inch. Just some cuttings with no leaves.
Being curious, I put the bare bamboo stalks into a cup of water to see what would happen and also placed a small cutting from an ivy in the same cup. Instead of using just plain water, I have been feeding them with a diluted mix of this stuff: http://www.dirtdoctor.com/organic/garden/view_question/id/2210/ About 1 tablespoon per gallon of water..
After two years of growing in a pure liquid environment, indoors, with NO soil, the plants look like this:
This is awesome because the plants share a common container indoors and live in a room that has relativity low light in the daytime. The liquid food in the cup has never been “drained and refreshed” because I wanted to observe the natural biological activity that would take place over time. This is fascinating!
The water has always evaporated at a rate of about 1/2 inch per week and I’ll add water weekly, but add the above plant food once per month.
The little ivy has tripled in size this year and I have no explanation why.. :-D
N2O
9 Dec, 2010
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Those bits of bamboo are sold over here in IKEA as houseplants, and I think they do tolerate low light conditions. The ivy doesn't look like ivy to me, looks like Syngonium with no variegation because of the low light levels...
9 Dec, 2010
Meanie, you might be right.. I am also growing a few orchids in the window of that same room and they are doing OK, but not really thriving..
~N2O~
10 Dec, 2010
Bamboo, you are absolutely correct!
The thing that I thought was an "Ivy" is indeed a Syngonium species. I did a little research and the photos are exactly what you identified. Thanks!
~N2O~
10 Dec, 2010
Houseplant over here, of course, N2Organics, does it grow outside where you are?
10 Dec, 2010
Yes it does, Bamboo. I have the mama plant in the garage for the winter and she is looking great despite the slightly lower light level. I have not yet experimented with one of them in the native soil yet, but that is on my spring-time "plant experiments" agenda for next year!
~N2O~
12 Dec, 2010
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I suppose that as some orchids are suited to hydrophonic growing, then there is no reason why other plants would not be as well. Just a matter of trial and error. Sound like a nice way to grow bamboo!
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