Indoor Bamboo

Growing Indoor Bamboo using Many Popular Varieties

In the past few years, bamboo in general has received a lot of attention, which includes items made from bamboo, as well as growing indoor bamboo. When bamboo is grown outside for harvesting, it produces long, strong stalks that are used for making hardwood flooring, furniture, dishes, and much more. The benefit of bamboo is that unlike trees that are cut down to make the same items, bamboo is harvested, which means it is cut but within five to seven years, it grows back to maturity.

This sustainable material is a huge part of the green movement and it produces gorgeous items. Remember, while many people think that bamboo is wood, the truth is that bamboo is a grass although it is very strong and durable. The other type of bamboo that people have fallen in love with is indoor bamboo. Chances are if you have had dinner in a Chinese restaurant or visited an Asian store, you have seen vases containing stalks of bamboo.

Indoor bamboo is not harvested to make things but it does add a sense of style and charm that you cannot get from any other type of plant. These plants typically grow to around 18 inches tall and can be enjoyed alone or coupled with other plant types. When growing indoor bamboo, it needs high moisture levels. Therefore, you would need to make sure the substance in which the plant is growing is moist but you also want to mist the plant daily.

You also want to put the bamboo plant near a window so it gets plenty of sunlight. Most of the time, indoor bamboo plants will grow small leaf offshoots, which may fall off on occasion. When this happens, nothing is wrong with the plant. For soil, we recommend high quality potting soil mixed with Perlite so the plant would get proper drainage.

Growing indoor bamboo is extremely easy and in the Chinese culture, it is the sign of wealth and prosperity so the bamboo shoots would also bring you luck while adding color and charm to the home. We wanted to provide you with a list of different species of indoor bamboo that you might consider. While they are all grown and cared for much the same, they are also unique.

Pseudosas Japonica Tsutsumiana – This indoor bamboo is unique, producing intermodal areas that swell. When grown outdoors, this species would grow tall but in an indoor container, it reaches about 18 inches at maturity.

Sasa Palmata – This type of bamboo is different in that it is a large leaf species. In fact, it looks more like a fern plant than it does bamboo. While this plant only grows to about seven inches tall, it grows well with low lighting.

Indocalamus Tessellatus – This is another large leaf indoor bamboo species, with leaves that can easily reach 26 inches long or more. This plant will grow to about 12 inches tall and it is classy and sophisticated in appearance.

We also wanted to provide you with some interesting facts that are specific to bamboo, which pertains to outdoor and indoor bamboo species.

New canes develop during the spring, which actually grow out of the ground. Each new cane will continue to grow for two months until they reach maturity and start producing limbs and leaves.

Bamboo produces new foliage every year and a single cane can easily live up to 10 years.

Bamboo is a colony plant and a grass. This means it uses energy from the existing plant as a way of producing plants for the following year.

For bamboo to establish, it takes approximately three years.

For flowering species, it can rest for years between blooming, which could be anywhere from 20 to 120 years.