thanks for the advice. I've been watering a little more often and they seem to be doing very well. The nigra has what appears to be a new culm growing... it's large and pointy and coming out of the ground. However, it's pointed at a 45 degree angle... will this grow crooked? Also, I made a somewhat disturbing (to me) discovery last night. I was examining the soil of the shirshima and i noticed a lot of little white bugs crawling around. I was sitting there for 20 minutes watching and trying to figure out where they came from when a full size centipede crawled out of the soil! If these were outside plants, I wouldn't care, but since I keep them in my bedroom, I got rid of the centipede and put the plant outside... It pains me to put my new plant out in the cold when it has been doing so well, but I want the cold to kill the baby centipede. Is this OK? Is there a better way to get rid of them? I read shiroshima is good to 0 degrees, but this plant came from Oregon. I figure the single digit temperatures will kill them and not the plant...?

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Note: Simply rule of thumb - the bigger the leaves, the less light the bamboo need. This is extremely helpful to know when growing bamboo indoors. Clumpers: Giant leaf bamboo - Indocallamus tessalatus Broadleaf Bamboo - Indocallamus latifolius Hedge bamboo - Bambusa multiplex (small leaves, but does great indoors) Mexican Weeping Bamboo - Otatea acuminata ssp aztecorum - a little on the expensive side. Runners: Arrow Bamboo - Psuedosasa japonica - by far the best bamboo to grow indoors. Green Onion - Pseudosasa japonica Palmata Bamboo - Sasa palmata Black Bamboo - Phyllostachys nigra

Please excuse me, I am entirely a newbie. Any help is extremely appreciated!! I am trying to grow an Areca Palm indoors. They grow to be up to 7 feet tall. I need soilless because I don't want any risk at all of bugs, etc. I just prefer the idea. I have an idea to make a deep water culture system. Just to take a large plastic planter (maybe two feet diameter), drill a hole in the top side, and feed an air pump tube through that hole, putting a stone on the end of that tube. I'll fill the planter with nutrient solution to the top almost. Then I'll put my net pot on top with ceramic balls in it and transfer a local garden store plant from its soil pot to my system. Will this work? I want to keep the plant for several years. Can I just add more nutrient solution as time goes on? Thanks so much!!