Bamboo Care - Bamboo Indoors ...House training your bamboo.
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Climate. Can you have bamboo in your locality? Planting in Ground. Plant the tropics in your garden. Escape Proof Bamboo. None of this running free nonsense. Planting in Pots. Bamboo stays smaller in pots. Bamboo Indoors. House training your bamboo.
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Embrace your bamboo
Healthy bamboo inside your house is a joy.
It’s always a happy surprise to see bamboo growing indoors. However, bamboo can be temperamental inside buildings.
The main limitation is getting enough light. Next to a sunny window is easy – moving away from the light increases likelihood of problems with pests attacking weakened bamboo.
Learn the tips and tricks of the trade so you can bamboo with confidence.
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Transplanting. Have bamboo will travel.
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Removing bamboo. How to kill an unwanted bamboo?
Trimming. Shape your bamboo once a year.only.
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Food & Water. Bamboo is easy to love.
Troubleshooting. Where there's leaf there's life.
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Glossary of Terms. New and forgotten bamboo related words.
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The delights of bamboo indoors
Architects are among our most, um... discerning clients. Everything must be smick.
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At Mr Bamboo all architects are respected.
Cut a long story short. An architect telephones with an enquiry.
Something like, "How much and how quick to install and maintain bamboo at tenants discretion. On the 36th floor of Sydney’s smickest building?" With me?

Kind of, "Well Mr Bamboo you’ve made it" (its true, we would like that.)

"Mate", I says, (not really you understand! Just to myself. I am never so direct with customers) "Mate! I don’t care if it’s the 36th floor or the bleedin roof, bamboo needs good light and good drainage".

Subsequently in the post, a set of architectural drawings arrives showing the new tenants plans for a complete refit of the 36th floor - good light – good light all right 36 floors above Sydney bleedin (if I can just use this term once more) harbour, and drainage is to hand. Too easy, as we say.

Upon our actual site inspection however. Views’ great. Light no problemo.
Drainage is not available.

Face it. Improvise. Bamboo must have good drainage.

Send Paul around once a week to suck out the excess water.
No problemo. As we say.
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Temple Bamboo in good health shining its leaves on the 36th floor at a Sydney Office.
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The delights of bamboo indoors. Temple Bamboo sunning itself on the 36th floor.

What bamboo indoors?
Blue / Drepanostachyum falcatum
Temple / Sinobambusa tootsic
Alphonse Karr / B. multiplex Alphonse Karr
Slender Weavers / B textillis Gracillis
Giant Timber / Dendrocalamopsis oldhamii
Malay Pygmy / Pogonatherum paniceum

Temple Bamboo exposing its leaves to the incoming daylight from a nearby window.
Bamboo culm and leaves.
The four basics to house train your bamboo
If your bamboo is kept
1. Moist
2. Well fed
3. The growing medium well drained, AND
4. You can manage to spray the leaves with water once or twice a week (use an atomiser)
THEN, the bamboo will be robust and can repel pests.