Though lucky bamboo is not a bamboo plant at all, in Chinese aesthetics of Feng Shui, lucky bamboo plants represent good luck and strength as they are easy to grow and having innate strength and resiliance. Others will give away special plants that are considered to bring luck. Mostly some celebration sweets will be packed in beautiful red packages ready to go. As tradition people will offer some gifts to family and friends. Two more weeks, exactly on February 10 this year, many Asian people especially the Chinese will celebrate New Year, the beginning of the Lunar Year Calendar. Photo taken Janu– One year after cutting and transplanting. It has been nine months since I cut our Dracaena plant into three to make three individual plants. I keep the soil moist and give them light/very weak seaweed drink:) The top cutting with leaves still looks very fresh, shiny and green. The bottom cane with the roots has faster growing rate and the middle cane is much slower as the leaf buds still very small. The two cuttings have started to grow new leaf buds. PS: Hubby was really worrying about cutting this plant into 3…. If I keep the soil moist all the time, hopefully with fingers cross, they will grow!! As tap water which contains chlorine and other chemicals not good for Draceana, I watered them well with rain water. Dracaenas are sensitif with too much fertilizer. I used potting media that has no fertilizers added. I used multy purpose potting mix which was mixed with cactus soil (1 : 1) to make it more well drain. They say this top cutting will give me a better chance. I stripped many of the long and healthy looking leaves to help it concentrate more into producing roots. With this one is a gamble, if lucky it will develop roots and later will also grow new shoots. The middle cane, completely bare and rootless. The bottom cane cutting with roots which I am sure it will grow new shoots. Mine never flowered though! Anyway, I decided to chop it into three parts. It was named fragrans because of its sweet smelling flowers. Yesterday I decided to repot the Dracaena fragrans which is also known as Corn-stalk Plant. Though a bit dusty, the crown were green and quite healthy, but the long and bare cane was just too thin to support the heavy leaves on the top. It looked ugly and was still standing against the wall for support. No branches, just a single trunk almost 2 meters tall. It was not repotted for a long long time. It was a wedding present for us almost 30 years ago which was still growing lanky and tall. A forgotten plant! The many readings about Dracaena lucky bamboo lately have reminded me of a similar species Dracaena fragrans ‘Deremensis / Janet Craig’ that we have.
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