Things You'll Need:
- Plant snippers
- Cotton ball
- Rubbing alcohol
- Knife
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Step 1
Sterilize your snippers. Clean the blades with an alcohol-soaked cotton ball.
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Step 2
Snip away unwanted leaves and offshoots. Lucky bamboo will continue to thrive and will form new leaves and offshoots regularly. If you want your bamboo to maintain its look, you will have to cut away anything that pops up. Use these snippers to cut off the unwanted pieces about 1/4 inch from the stalk.
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Step 3
Cut down the stalk. Sometimes your bamboo will get unruly or very tall and you will want to trim it back down to its original size. Lucky bamboo can be cut right through the stalk and continue to live and grow afterward. Decide how high you want your bamboo. Unless you have large plant snippers, you may want to use a knife for cutting the stalk. Sterilize your snippers with alcohol first, then cut straight across the stalk.
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Step 4
Place the cut stalk in water. One of the most interesting things about lucky bamboo is that, when you cut it in half, both pieces will be capable of growing. To make your bamboo piece sprout, place it in water so that only the sprouts touch the water. Sprouts will form. You can either plant the new piece as its own plant or use the sprouts to make numerous lucky bamboo plants.
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Step 5
Cut the lucky bamboo into bits. If you want to try growing lucky bamboo right away, you don't have to wait for the sprouts. Cut up the piece of stalk you cut off and plant it. It will take a long time, but those pieces will sprout in the ground and grow into lucky bamboo.
