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Bamboo has gone all yellow
Lyndsay Griggs
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I have a bamboo in a pot and it has gone all yellow but new growth is green. I don't want to put it in the ground
Should I remove all yellow leaves or could it just be pot bound?
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tip it out and see if it's pot bound
how long has it been in the pot
Have you fed it and kept it watered
In the sticks near Peterborough
Think your probably right the leaves are half green and the other half looks scorched
Pot on and feed and see how it goes
I'm not a grower of things in pots. I'd never keep up with the feeding and watering required. 8 tomatoes in the GH are as far as I go
In the sticks near Peterborough
What do you feed the bamboo with ? I've just acquired my first and want to look after it.
I use seaweed fertiliser and the old dropped leaves left round the base help. I love bamboo but dont trust them in the ground! I got mine from 'Scottish Bamboo' and they gave me loads of advice; maybe check out heir website. I'm only on my second year with them
Thank you Cathy 43 I will try the seaweed fertiliser and keep fingers crossed.
We have a couple in pots,because in the ground they spread. Ours have had about seven years potted up, just watered and any feed that I've got going on my rounds in the garden. The leaves do turn yellow and drop off, but it's a good plant to have.we also have a Niger in the garden, they don't seem to spread as much.
i have mine now in large planters and mine is the same as yours, i think it is just par for the course, the older leaves dry out and are replaced by the new growth, if any are dead all the way down cut those out and you can use them as canes in the garden, i thinned out some green ones and have bent them over to make garden hoops for plant supports, i have bent them over and held them bent by wire until they dry out and then you can take the wire/string off.