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- SOS! What to do if the bamboo dried up?
- What to do if your bamboo:
- Recognize and treat drought damage in good time
- Preventing cold dryness and winter drought
- Tips & Tricks
SOS! What to do if the bamboo dried up?
As an evergreen plant, bamboo leaves retain their color in winter. Only in the spring does the bamboo discard a portion of the old leaves as the new ones go out. But leaf fall can also be an indication that the plant does not feel well and dry up. Recognize and treat drought damage in good time.
What to do if your bamboo:
First of all, as with all evergreen plants, the bamboo loses foliage continuously from late autumn. He does not throw it off all at once. But he frees himself from the very leaves that he no longer needs - namely, the foliage that does not get enough light for photosynthesis!
This leaf fall is quite normal in the plant and the solution to the problem is simple. Cut off dry, pale bamboo stalks as deeply as possible. So that the others get enough light again. When you light the bamboo, the inside of the plant also stays green. In addition, you can shorten the tips. Then more light comes into the interior and ensures sufficient photosynthesis.
Recognize and treat drought damage in good time
Whether it is on the other hand dry damages, which require fast action, you recognize at these 3 Schadbilder:
Preventing cold dryness and winter drought
Many of the bamboo varieties available with us tolerate winter temperatures up to - 25 degrees. Cold weather usually does not bother the hardy bamboo species. But the drought or winter drought all the more! As an evergreen, the bamboo evaporates moisture in winter. If he can not supply himself again with water from the frozen earth, it comes to dry damages. Normally, the bamboo does not freeze, but it dries up because its roots die off!
In general, each bamboo needs 3 to 5 years to root properly at the site. Only after this time he reaches his specified winter hardiness. This means you have to water the bamboo in addition. Also on frost-free winter days.
Tips & Tricks
Give your bamboo a chance - no matter how dry it looks! Because a bamboo is extremely regenerative. Even with a very sad, withered sight, there is still life in the plant. Cut dried stalks to the ground. Do not worry! New leaves are drifting in the spring and your bamboo unfolds its graceful beauty and elegance again.