I have finally managed to get hold of some real lucky bamboo plants, so can now use the real thing rather than pictures. However, I am confused.

Marie usually specifies four stems for the bamboo plant, but the information sheet I received with the bamboo gives the following information:

"... three stalks attract happiness, five stalks attract wealth, seven stalks result in good health, twenty one stalks offer a very powerful all-purpose blessing."

Right now, I could do with improving my health, but am wary of putting a seven-stem plant in my personal health direction in case that might be the wrong thing to do. I am also looking to give some of the bamboo to a couple of friends as I have 100 stems (I had to purchase them from the US, the UK being apparently devoid of such things at a reasonable cost) and was wondering how accurate the information is concerning the 21 stems being auspicious for that.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Kind regards to all

Cheryl-Anne