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Lucky bamboo Growing Tips

Lucky bamboo is known to bring luck and positive energy to the carrier. As described by Feng Shui and Chinese traditions, the different number of executives of lucky bamboo plant brings good luck to the wearer. It is believed that the two emerged plants bring good luck in love for the carrier, and eight stalked plant believed to bring wealth.

Most likely you've seen these lovely stalks in water display containers at a local store for mass selling. Perhaps you've thought it's a lovely, unusual plant even exotic looking and because of that impression passed it by thinking that it would just be too temperamental for your indoor planting abilities. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Lucky bamboo as a house plant is one of the most striking and surprisingly one of the most easy as well. As long as you follow some very simple, logical planting rules whether you're using water or soil as a growing material.

Pick out a few sturdy looking lucky bamboo stocks from that sales display. Look for the stalks to be a healthy green color, no yellow or brown on the stalks at all. Check to be sure that the leaves sprouting from the top of the plant stalk are looking healthy as well. You'll glance at the roots as you separate a few stalks, making sure there is a good number of healthy looking roots attached and importantly that the base of the stalk where those roots are growing is firm and not squishy.

Now you need a container for your lucky bamboo plant. Depending on the length and width of the stocks you chose there are quite a few interesting and lovely to look at options. A tall clear vase with some aquarium pebbles, or small marbles in the bottom looks lovely. A short ceramic pot filled with small rocks would be a sturdy home for your lucky bamboo.With vase or pot chosen, simply fill an inch or so at the bottom of your container with pebbles, marbles, or small rocks. Put your stalk(s) of lucky bamboo in the container on top of them, then carefully add some more medium another inch or so around the stalk to keep it firmly in place. Add some bottled water to the container, filling to just above the line of your pebbles, marbles or small rocks.So with some simple care instructions, the task of growing lucky bamboo to be happy good luck to you and your home.

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Lucky bamboo Fan

Hi fellow seniors,did you live to work or did you work to live?

By that I mean did your work/career come first or was it just a means to an end?

Maybe you had an occupation which was so absorbing it took all of your time and energy with little time to spare for yourself at the close of day.
Or did you do just what was asked of you then rush out and do your own thing?

I must say I have been very lucky with having a happy medium of being both content in the workplace and out of it , have you?

I've just about done it all over my lifetime. When I became self employed & never would have made it without first having many jobs to begin with. I worked to live in those days. Then I lived to work & when that was gone (partner left & ripped me off), I went back to working dead end jobs & stumbled upon a career that seemed to suit me & once again, I was living to work & loving life. It was outdoor work with animals & we did a lot of traveling. I was just starting to move up when I sustained an injury from an assault & my working days came to a screeching halt years before I was of retirement age. I think I've been lucky to have so many jobs & learned so much over the course of my lifetime. I might be a poor judge of people....but I'm a good judge of animals.

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