Yellow is Not Lucky Bamboo’s Favorite Color
Ask the expert:
One of the canes of my lucky bamboo is turning yellow. I have had the plant for several years and it has done well until now. What can I do about this? It is still green above the yellow and the leaves look great.
November 29th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Marguerite,
If the lucky bamboo stalk is turning yellow from the bottom, over-fertilization is usually the culprit.
Change the water (use distilled water or evaporate the chlorine from the tap water first) and don’t feed the lucky bamboo for several weeks. You may have to remove the stalk that is yellow from the container. If you cut the stalk just above the yellow part (a about an inch above one of the growth rings) you can root the green part — discard the yellow part.