Q&A for How to Cut Bamboo

If you divide the entire in half or into small pieces, you can replant them and grow more.

Cut the entire stalk close to the ground with a sharp pair of bypass sheers if the stalk is smaller than 1.5" or with loppers or a saw if the stalk if thicker. Cut to the desired size knowing the bamboo will likely send up more shoots in the future.

Yes, the bamboo can splinter and leave slivers in your skin. Wear gloves when cutting bamboo. It can also be quite large and should be cut down with care. Be sure no person or object is in the way when cutting down large bamboo.

Use a pair of handheld garden shears or scissors to cut yellow leaves. Be careful not to cut yourself.

It's not really bamboo. It's just a houseplant. It's a type of tropical water lily called Dracaena sanderiana and is said to bring good luck and good fortune to the inhabitants of any space where it is grown.

Keep killing it off (cut it off at ground level, or crush it like by running a car over it, or burn with boiling water, or best of all dig it out) every time you see a sprout emerging from the ground. After the third year of this it will probably be gone. It is very hardy, and therefore hard to remove.

As a general rule, faster cuts will preserve the structure and appearance of your bamboo better than slow cuts.

It is nearly impossible. Bamboo is a very strong plant and is very hard to defeat. You may be able to use some sort of chemical to get rid of it, but even that might not work.

They will stay green for a limited period of time based on the size of the bamboo, but the color will change to brown eventually.

Most varieties do. Everything that's green at first tends to turn yellow. But some types that have a special color, like black bamboo (Phyllostachys Nigra) can retain that special coloration.