You have a couple of choices. You can just bump it up to a larger container with just water and maybe some pebbles or marbles for stability or you can plant it up like a houseplant in a container with a drainage hole and decent potting soil. Either way, you should gently loosen up the roots a bit before upsizing. That's a very healthy looking lucky bamboo and the root mass is atttesting to your good care. Here is a link that might be useful: growing lucky bamboo

Hi there, Today a friend gave me some cuttings from her bamboo. A black bamboo and a realy tall one (I know this won't help much in figuring out the latin names). They are not full Culms, they are branches from the main culm. I have them in water, soaking with some compost juice for nutrients. It works much like miracle grow. As I am reading this post, I am wondering which action I should take. Should I trim the bottoms, dip in rooting powder and put in dirt imediately (one web page suggests this)? Wrap the base in a ball of p.moss and perilite with foil wrapping? Should I use string to tie it off with? Do I need to use foil, or is there something better? Should I leave them in water for a few days, weeks, months? Once I had a "chunk" of bamboo in water in my window, it rooted. Then it whent into dirt. Now it is happy on the porch - or is it? Now you all have me worrying! Thanks for the helpful info!!!!

Sure you can trim them back just dont take them to close to the stem leave at least 2 to 4 inch's according to how old the bamboo is I have lotus plants they are a cousin to the lucky bamboo and there roots also grow fast in fact I know they grow faster than my Luck Bamboo. Just dont get to happy with the scissors and cut them off to short also I never cut off the white roots and the ones growing up the stem you can break those off and just keep the water level down below that area so it will not grow back after a few years you need to let the roots grow out a bit and plant them up in a clay pot with good soil and just make sure you keep them damp if not they will rot because they need dirt to actually live in. All things that have roots have to get the nutrition in the soil. They will grow and be just as beautiful.

Sounds like a pest, try spraying insecticide on the leaves and remove any sticky residue on the leaves, if you think this is NOT the case then another thing it could be is a fungus infection on the leaves, witch does spread, if you think this is the case, mix a bit of baking soda with water and spray on the plant changing the ph and killing fungus, Or buy any sort of fungicide spray this is just my theory, Also place it by a window that receives....meh .. just enough light to cast a shadow, White and orange roots sound healthy to me, also i don't think the braid being too tight will cause white sticky stuff too appear, If all else fails, Try to propagate whatever healthy growth you have left on any of the near death or dying stalks :), Also check this guys channel for any additional info https://www.youtube.com/user/LuckyBambooExpert I really hope this helped even in the slightest bit, i see no one answers on this forum hopefully i got to you in time lol,