How to cut down bamboo plant. Its best to dig out the rhizomes the same day you cut down the culms. The sections of bamboo develop new roots creating a clone of the parent plant. If you already have a bamboo plant in a pot or in the landscape its simple to propagate by cutting sections of the stem and replanting them a method called culm segment cutting.
For larger culms you will need a fine toothed hand saw or even a chain saw. Bamboo grows so quickly that waiting even a day or two will mean having new culms to cut down before you can get to work on the rhizomes. Each section will grow into a new plant.
Only the branches will keep growing. Add a couple extra to make up for potential loss rot or failure to set root. Make the cut at ground level.
Trimming the top of your bamboo plant doesnt mean that the entire clumpplant stops growing. The bamboo plant is amazing it would not regrow on the exact spot you cut it. If the grove is too big to mow and dig all in one day remember to work from the outer edges inward gradually.
Bamboo may look and feel like wood but it is actually a member of the grass family and is grown primarily in east asia and southeast asia. Cutting down bamboo for harvesting or simply for pruning to control size shape or spread of the plant can be accomplished with a few household tools depending on the size of the diameter of the stalks or culms as they are called. If desired selective lucky bamboo plant pruning can even change the shape of the plant entirely.
Because lucky bamboo grows so fast it has a tendency to become top heavy and the extra weight puts stress on the roots and the rest of the plant. If your plant is healthy you wont need to use this. Regular trimming keeps bamboo healthy.
Since bamboos are one of the plants i collect i did have collected many types and i have also gotten rid of many types of bamboo as well. New shoots would come up very close to the spot. Cut as many culm sections for replanting as bamboo plants you want to grow.
Care properly for the new lucky bamboo plant. For smaller slender canes use pruners. Try to cut from the stalks middle.
The type of tool youll need to take down bamboo depends on the size of the culm. Dig out the rhizomes. Cutting lucky bamboo is easy when you follow these instructions and will keep your plants healthy if done on a regular basis.
However its best not to cut down all the stems. 1cut all the culms down to the ground with a lopper or chainsaw and keep repeating until the grove runs out of energy or shoot buds. Once you have felled a culm remove the branches with a pruner.
Cutting back a lucky bamboo plant invigorates and refreshes it and encourages new growth.
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