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deruo · 11-29-2009, 01:10 AM

Just as a followup, I think part of the problem is that the plant was not getting enough light/water for the temperature of the room it's in. All of my windows have uv reflecting film on them to reduce fading of furnishings etc and heat gain during summer - so I don't know if thats an issue or not. My bamboo seems to be doing okay.

I stuck the sick looking basjoo it under the grow light in the bathtub with the other basjoo I'm overwintering and the plant is doing much better. Was getting about 2400 lumens at 6400k for 12 hours a day but have recently boosted that. In fact, a new leaf came up so forcefully that it split the p-stem and the existing leaves died off.

The new leaf doesn't have any brown patches on it, though the other basjoo that has grown about a foot in the last month is still getting discolorations on the new leaves it puts out. Not the dried crunchy kind of discoloration though. No spider mites so far (knock wood). Is looking mighty impressive so far with about one new leaf a week.

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