Without any expectations of it growing, I snapped off a few twigs from some bamboo I found growing beside a creek, and stuck them in some cups of saturated gravel as a bedroom decoration. They all turned brown and I went to toss them after about a week, but I noticed the slightest bit of green on the base of one. I decided to chop it off the main twig, and stuck it back in the gravel. Ended up putting some rosmary cuttings in the gravel, having forgotten about the bamboo. Lo and behold, the bamboo survived! I noticed it poking up through the gravel, and with some fairly established roots! Can it continue to grow in water, or do I need to move it to soil? Thanks, and just thought I'd share!
by FirstTimeAquarist
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Sorry, the other photo didn’t work! Here it is:
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lol my first thought before reading was ummm that’s rosemary 🤣
But then I read through…it looks to be doing very well! Actually like extraordinarily well all things considered…I am a very big fan of putting cuttings into soil as soon as you have tangible root systems developing…now some quick considerations about that…first- bamboo depending on the type could be running…so unless you want it to consume your entire yard and become a huge future regret best to put it in a pot… second- because of the root system you currently have you are going to want to put it into a soil mix that holds moisture well but does drain as well…all purpose mix and sand 75/25 would be a great start for it…
Keep it moist not damp and use fertilizer very sparingly till it’s bigger…seed starter or grass fertilizer should be your first choices…
Would you be willing to share what it looked like originally? Or even find pictures of similar? I have never once had bamboo work out from a stem cutting after several thousand tries I gave up and did root, shoot and rhizome propagation of it…I’m hoping it’s a normal type and that I just missed some key element…I think yours may be a special type different of the ones I have tried so far…I would be very interested to know more…