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Quick Tips: Lucky Bamboo Care

As millions of “lucky” consumers around the world have discovered, Lucky Bamboo makes the perfect house or office plant, needing little care but an inch of water and little direct sunlight to keep it happy and thriving…

What is Lucky Bamboo?

Known for centuries as Lucky Bamboo, the plant is not a bamboo at all (botanical name: Dracaena) but a resilient member of the lily family that grows in the dark, tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia and Africa.

How Much Care Does Lucky Bamboo Need?

Keep water fresh by changing it every week, and always keep water levels at approximately an inch from the base of the canes. Lucky Bamboo prefers plenty of indirect sunlight and room temperatures at 65-70°. Although opinions differ on feeding, your Lucky Bamboo is a living organism, so it makes sense to occasionally add a mild solution to the water such as African Violet fertilizer. Since growth can be controlled by feeding, small amounts of fertilizer will keep the plant at a manageable size.

Why Are the Leaves Turning Yellow?

Two of the most common factors are 1.) too much direct sunlight; and 2.) too salty or heavily-fluoridated tap water. To give your new Lucky Bamboo a thriving start be sure to keep it away from direct sunlight, and water only with filtered or natural spring water.

Why Is It Called “Lucky” Bamboo?

Along with its ease of growth, Lucky Bamboo has long been associated with the Eastern practice of Feng Shui - or the bringing of natural elements of water, fire, earth, wood and metal into balance within the environment. Lucky Bamboo is believed to be an ideal example of the thriving wood and water element, with the addition of a red ribbon sometimes tied around the stalks - which is believed to “fire” the positive flow of energy or chi in the room. The number of stalks also has meaning : three stalks for happiness; five stalks for wealth; six stalks for health. Four stalks, however, are always avoided - since the word “four” in Chinese sounds too similar to the Chinese word for “death”!

Can I Take Cuttings from Lucky Bamboo?

Yes. New stalks can be propagated from the original plant by using a sharp knife to cut through a stalk - just below the joint. Place the cutting in fresh, clean water. A fine mist spray to stalks is sometimes suggested to stimulate new bud growth.

How Do I Repot Bamboo?

Like any other houseplant, Lucky Bamboo can be transferred to a vase or pot 2 inches larger than the original, or planted permanently into a loose sand or soil mixture that provides lots of bottom drainage. To avoid root rot, be careful to let the top of the soil dry out between waterings.

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Failure is a fact of life. Every venture will involve a certain amount of failure on the road to success. These plans that fall through can be an important part of the growing process on one condition - that you take the time to learn from your failures. The only failure that is permanent is to give up completely. Let's take a look at how to learn from failure.

The most important concept is that you should keep from repeating the steps that led to the failure in the first place. If you repeat the same methods, you are most likely to have the same outcome. Take the time to analyze what went wrong. What steps did you take, and which ones were responsible for the bad outcome? Perhaps you went way off track, or maybe you would have succeeded except for a small detail or two.

For instance, consider that you were scheduled to make a public presentation, like a home demonstration, about your business. After the presentation, though, you had the distinct impression that it was a flop! Look back over the steps you went through to get prepared. Did you take the time to find out exactly what was expected of you? Did you find out beforehand what sort of audience you would be speaking to? Did you practice? Did you have adequate notes? Just what caused the flop, anyway?

When you get another demonstration booked, you can avoid the mistakes of the first one. Maybe you were simply nervous and forgot all your preparation the first time. If this was the case, practice with diligence and be encouraged that the more you do it, the easier it will get, and the less nervous you will be.

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In this complicated world, various cultures, religions and races have been mixed together and form the multi-racial society in different regions. It is very heart-warming to witness many countries perform the friendship international networking among different organisations, companies, marketplace, spiritual welfare, etc. They wish to get closer to understand more from their close partners so that they can build stronger friendship or relationship with one another.

They feel that it is very important to do that so that thy can apply their close relationship for their working careers, which have to apply their networking tools, communication skills, relationship matters, so that they can perform the greater tasks and better working performances in the companies. Most of them prefer to have the promotion ranking and thus they work very hard, hoping that their dutiful and excellent work can be recognised and well satisfied by the upper hand organisations that believe that hardworking and organised working colleagues are rightfully deserved to promote themselves in the higher post. They believe that they can perform the greater work and thus they are motivated and inspired to achieve even better piece of work. All these factors can be the reasons why they do not have the closer relationship among the couples.

These sorts of factors above are the pushing factors that cause the couples to continue pursuing their goals, and had not enough time for their closeness in their relationship. They wish to have closer relationship and wanting to perform the greater achievement for their careers. How are they going to have closer relationship if they put their careers as their main first priorities? This is why the mentoring and advices in this piece of article comes in. This is hoping that everyone including the couples has the better understanding of how they can have the closer relationship. If you are one of the couples, then do not feel very intimidated, do feel free to continue reading this article, because the rest will provide you many advices and tips with full hundred percent guarantee promise. Do invite your friends and your desperate and needy colleagues to read.

Following is a question that is asked by the inquisitive audience who is very interested to know. How do we define close relationship between persons of opposite sex? When does the relationship become close? How will they relate to each other when they share a close relationship? What is your definition of a close relationship? Do you sacrifice your own feelings in a close relationship? Or do you express them clearly? A close relationship goes beyond friendship. Imagine two close friends and add romantic love to that; it becomes a close relationship amongst two partners.

Well, friends share their happiness and sadness, success and failures, and their true feelings with each other. It happens in a close romantic relationship. Both the partners have complete faith in each other and share their every feeling without fear of getting manipulated. They don't want to make the other partner happy by talking only of good things, but want to feel close by sharing the best and the worst.

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Self love forms the foundation of your single, most important relationship - that with yourself. The strength of all your other relationships is exactly equal to the strength of that foundation. To love yourself is not simply a self esteem boosting piece of advice. It is the prerequisite to truly loving others. The golden rule tells us to "love your neighbour as you love yourself". You are likely to have heard it many times, expressed in different ways, thinking it is about loving others. Look a little closer though and you will find that at its very center is the command to love yourself.

The Mistaken Identity of Self Love: Let us first dispel some myths about what it means to love yourself. Self love is not about being arrogant, selfish, self-centered or egotistical. It is not about comparing yourself to others to determine if you are good enough. It is not about always putting yourself first. It is not about always getting your way. It is not about always winning. It is not about "only looking after number one".

Will the Real Self Love Please Stand Up: To love yourself is to be in awe of the miracle of your existence. It is to accept yourself as you are - the light parts and the dark - and to love them both equally. It is to be willing to receive as much as you are willing to give and do both equally. It is about knowing your values and your boundaries and honouring them. It is about teaching others how to treat you by showing them how you treat yourself. It is about being kind to yourself. It is about looking after your mind, your body and your spirit - all three. It is about knowing you are worth it, not because of what you have achieved or what you look like or what others think of you, but because love is your birthright no matter what.

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