My bamboo plant is dying and it smells bad too?

I got a bamboo plant at Wal-Mart a few months back. Recently I've noticed it beginning to get yellow from the bottom up. I had three stalks to begin with but threw one away because it acually began to get mold on it. This is starting to happen to another of the stalks. When I remove them to change the water it smells SO bad! When I bought the plant it was encased in some weird gelatin plant food stuff, and was doing fine. After a while I noticed there wasn't much gel left in there so I've been giving it water from the sink and keeping it in the window. How can I save it?

My bamboo plant is dying and it smells bad too?
Most people don't realize that this isn't a bamboo at all. It is dracaena. One of the biggest complaints about this house plant is that it begins yellowing and dies several months after someone gets one.



The general reason is that this plant does not tolerate chlorinated water at all, and most homes have it.



Since you are using tap water, I suspect that is your problem. The best thing you can do is remove all of the dead parts being careful of the small roots on the still living parts.



Wash the living parts with nonchlorinated bottled water and then put them in a clean glass jar so that they are standing straight. Put about one inch of water in the jar. Wait a couple of days and change the water again. You may need to do it several times and might be able to save the remaining plant segments in this way, but I think you are going to have to replace it.
Reply:I am a certified doctor, A.K.A Panda Bear, I've come to realize that your bamboo plant is dying and smells bad. Your first mistake was going to wal-mart for greenery, what i would have done was taken the first available red eye, to southern Asia and picked some bamboo trees for myself, fully aware of the enormously hostile panda bears. I have choosen the alias panda bear in memory of my struggle.



NOTE: Beware of traveling Gypsys, They eat bamboo plants that smell, and those in their way.
Reply:you really cant. it needs that geletin thing. so i guess your going to have to get a new one and buy more of that geletin stuff
Reply:Then throw it away! And no it wont live!
Reply:i think you should start again. it sounds like it molded and has died. good luck