Re: Dying Lucky Bamboo

"Julia Royce" <julia.r@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:3W6Qh.559$r4.270@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My 7year old daughter was given a lucky bamboo some 4.5 years ago 
> which has
> lived quite happily, in a demi-john with a couple of inches of water 
> in the
> bottom, until quite recently. In the last year the stem has gone brown 
> and
> woody, with some parts rather blackened and wrinkled and one bit has 
> mould
> growing on it. The leaves are brown and dry. We moved  about 18m ago, 
> and
> now live in an area where the water is heavily chlorinated - I don't 
> know if
> that has anything to do with it.
>
> There are two parts - at the bottom with the roots and at the top - 
> which
> are still green. Can I save it? How?
>
> Thank you very much.

Lucky bamboo is not bamboo.  It is a Dracena.  They are cheap and 
everywhere.  Buy a new one and plant it is potting soil.

-- 
Travis in Shoreline Wa****ngton