have you ever...

[aesoprock00]

Have you ever chopped a plant in half and put the halves back together to have the plant survive?

i (stupidly) use sewing thread to LST my plants.. i know i need to switch to something thicker and softer, but it's all i've got for now.

well, i was adjusting a string, and i guess it pulled too tight and sliced my plant just about in half. the plant was probably 14" tall, and the top 6" got cut off. it was hanging on by a few threads of green for a few seconds, but then it came off completely into two peices.

i quickly grabbed a peice of aluminum foil tape (which has better support and is pretty stong) and (haha) taped the two peices back together.

now i'm not expecting the top to survive, but it's been about 18hours since that happened. the top of the plant is most certainly deathly looking.. it's drooping very heavily (if not completely wilted) and is a slightly darker shade of green than the rest of the plant... but the weird thing is, there are some very small shoots that were right above the break point that are still kinda pointing skyward.. the great majority of the plant is dead or wilting severely, but there's these two little shoots that are pointing to the lights and not really drooping so much...

i was gonna pull the tape off and trim it down like i had topped the plant, but those 2 little shoots are giving me some hope and i'm gonna leave it on for a few more days to see if some miracle could occur.

anyone have any stories they wanna share?

 

[Sport Farmer]

Emm, i would just clone the broken half and root it.. Your chances of that thing surviving are pretty slim. What if you broke your arm off? Would you tape it back on and think it would come back to life? Ha ha!

Get that thing in some cloning solution asap! That is if you really want it to stay alive.

 

[Maj.PotHead]

Emm, i would just clone the broken half and root it.. Your chances of that thing surviving are pretty slim. What if you broke your arm off? Would you tape it back on and think it would come back to life? Ha ha!

Get that thing in some cloning solution asap! That is if you really want it to stay alive.

actually the plant is quite resilient gently wrap the top maybe some wet paper towel it should heal. i believe i did suggest the lst to ya srry this happened, but i also suggested to use the twisty tie or 10 gauge electrical wire. i also suggested to gently pull her down little each day, after a few days you'll be at a 90 deg angel or very close to it. ive done a few LST grows and there really isnt anything to them. best to start early. when ya do your 1st transplant do it to 1 side of the container. this way when it's time to LST you'll pull plant over to fill up the container. really wish i could post the full tutorial i have by big budha from over at the old OG site compleate w/pics

 

[aesoprock00]

oh it's all good Maj. PotHead... this isn't your fault.. i've done plenty of LST in my past few grows, i've just been keeping a low profile since coming here from OG.

i had been LSTing from when this plant was very young, it's actually in its 2nd week of flowering when this accident happened.

and i don't have space in my veg chamber to have cloned it, plus it happened at like 3am last night just as the lights were about to turn off. i was just trying to pull one of the strings a little tighter, and it just sliced right through. no one's fault but my own for using thin ass thread instead of string or rope or twisty ties like i've used in previous grows.

and i'm not expecting fabulous results, just interested to see what's gonna happen, like i said, since there's still these two tiny little stalks that are pointing up and looking hungry for some light.. i'm just gonna give it a few more days to see if it bounces back even a little bit or not at all, and then i'm gonna get rid of the top part if it doesn't look like anything is happening and just focus on some of the lower growth..

no big deal, it's only a minor setback for me. any setbacks at all suck, but i'm determined not to get upset or worked up about this. it's all good. i've still got another plant right next to it that's twice as big and very healthily filling with buds, not to mention the clones that are rooting and will be helping me to setup a perpetual harvest.

just curious if anyone had any similar experiences.

 

[Maj.PotHead]

right on thx last thing i need is to start off here on wrong foot here is the full tutorial pics an all i converted them into jpeg 1 at a time lol






enjoy maybe i'll convert all the tutorials i have an make a thread if admin dont mind afterall they where taken from a public website. and no i wasnt wanting to do a book or whatnot i'm to stoned to write a book let alone read1 lmao

Hint on this process at around 2 wks age the plant should be big enough and abel to have training started. i done in my last grow 1 plant @2 wks age 1 4 wks age. the 1 @ 2 wks age main stem grew 2 inch off soil and from 1 side filled a 11 gal container. 1 @ 4 wks was around 3.5-4 inch off soil

didnt ya have that nice rubbermaid stealth grow going @ OG

 

[aesoprock00]

that's a pretty great writeup there Maj. i'm saving that one for later use for reference to folks.

so, my plant was a lost cause. there was no way it could grow back together. i guess since it came apart completely there was just no hope for it. i've had things in the past where a plant got cut, but didn't come apart completely, and it regrew stronger than in the past.

this didn't happen this time.

i got a picture of the attempted taped together growing... which i only left for like 2 days before i realized it was completely lost.


and here's how she's growing now (well, like 2 days ago)..

 

[Sport Farmer]

Oh well.. another lesson learned.. I warned ya!

 

[BagseedSamurai]

As they said. It is possible to mend the plant, if you get it in time. But if i were you? Id clone it! You just harshly FIM'd the plant. Use the top of the fim, the one you broke off, clone it, and youll have dual yield!

 

[gaiusmarius]

didn't think it would grow back together. not once it was completly seperated. if just a tinny bit of the bark had still conected the two pieces it might well have healed. but a total break, is best used as a clone. still interesting experiment, would have been cool if it did grow back together.

 

[Sport Farmer]

didn't think it would grow back together. not once it was completly seperated. if just a tinny bit of the bark had still conected the two pieces it might well have healed. but a total break, is best used as a clone. still interesting experiment, would have been cool if it did grow back together.

Yeah, it would be cool. But the odds of you matching up all the nutrient/water shafts in the stem is highly unlikely! I agree it might have worked if it has a little bit attached still, but.. yeah, in that situation your better of cloning the thing..