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Here’s everything you gotta know about caring for and growing bamboo palms.

Bamboo Palm Care

Here are the main care requirements for growing a bamboo palm.

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Instead, place them in indirect light that gets either partial sun or shade.

Soil

Bamboo palms prefer well-draining soil that is slightly acidic.

Closeup of bamboo palm foliage

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Use a potting mix to give it the richness that it needs.

Water

Especially during the growing season, bamboo palm prefers to stay consistently moist.

However, you have to be careful not to let the soil get soggy.

Closeup of bamboo palm fronds

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Overwatering can easily damage a bamboo palm.

Since they are tropical plants, they prefer a more humid environment.

Fertilizer

Bamboo palms should only be fertilized during their growing season in spring and summer.

Bamboo palm house plant

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Sprinkle granule fertilizer around the soil but not directly on the trunk.

In that case, spring and summer are the best times to prune.

Otherwise, all you gotta do is clean up dead leaves.

ensure you only propagate a mature plant, and do so in spring just before its growing season starts.

Here’s what you’ll need to do to propagate a bamboo palm.

Ideally, you shouldn’t have to repot your bamboo palm more than once every few years.

When you do repot a bamboo palm, see to it to water it generously both before and after.

Common Pests and Plant Diseases

Bamboo palm’s biggest issues tend to stem from pests.

Spider mites and mealy bugs both love to attack bamboo palm’s leaves.

Here’s what can go wrong, and how you’ve got the option to fix it.

Try removing the brown leaves, and then moving them to a shadier spot with less direct sunlight.

Drooping Leaves

Drooping leaves are most likely because of overwatering.

The soil should remain moist, but never soggy.

Overwatering is one of the most common ways to severely damage a bamboo plant.

If your plant looks droopy, there’s a good chance that it’s suffering from overwatering.

Since repotting can cause stress,