Broken stalk help please

Hey i just went to super crop and snapped my stem about 90% and have taped it up and propped it with string so it s still connected. Is there anything else i can do or ant other methods for these types of repairs?

Just tapeing and cross fingers

Have you tried 'Varicose plant glue' yet?

Ok, I made that up ... there's no such thing but there should be. .. tape could work and if it heals it will be stronger and have like a knuckle where it was snapped.

u got pics bro if it is snapped like if u let go of it and it falls completely off u might be fucked, but then again the mj plant is amazeing its got sum good healing power, lets see a pic if you got more tops u should be all good ne ways

90% sever means it's a clone now. chop it up into clones.

as long as i continue to see new tops grow i am going to leave it taped up and hope for the best i have heard of stem snapping in half completekt and still making it trough with delicate tape work u am just going to keep my fingers crossed and hope she can jump back. Will let all know thanks for the input.

As long as it's secure again it will heal...I just bent 2 branches During a move for cold weather...that was a couple weeks ago and they're better now...g/l

There is a product called grafting Rafia but I just tape em.

Put a bag over it after you tape it. While it heals it won't get water to the top, keep humidity high with a bag. If you keep humidity high and tape it you have at 75% chance.

You can use super glue to seal it if you wish. The tape should do if a seal is formed.

Or "new skin" liquid bandage.

If you don't have a clean cut, make one on both sides, you are basically grafting at this point.

They sell a special grafting tape, but hard to find in stores and if you order it you probably wont get it in time. I used saran wrap, or cling wrap whatever you want to call it. Its got a little more flex so you can leave it on there a little while. Also its easier to get off when your done. Just a thought. If it looks like in a couple days that its not healing and the leaves start to slightly wilt then chop the whole thing off. Make a fresh cut at an angle, put some rooting hormone and either put it in a glass of water or the rooting cubes. I always like the water method with some rooting powder and 1/4 dose of superthrive. Good Luck.

Wire repair works every time. Take a length of wire and starting above the break wrap the wire around the stem into a spring like shape until your below the break. Remove it once its healed if you want if it looks like the stem is growing into it.

organigrow said:

Hey i just went to super crop and snapped my stem about 90% and have taped it up and propped it with string so it s still connected. Is there anything else i can do or ant other methods for these types of repairs?

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Grilling skewer (or two) and duct tape. If it still has connective tissue, it will heal.

Cpappa27 said:

They sell a special grafting tape, but hard to find in stores and if you order it you probably wont get it in time.

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It's called buddy tape or parafilm. Different purpose. (I do grafting once in a while)

i use that white plumbers thread tape. waterproof, strong but flexible and sticks to itself if you do it right, no knots. fixes super cropping errors and grafting and that plumbers tape is dirt cheap.one of those gardeners must haves.

Last time i broke one i used a wooden bbq skewer, wrapped it with toilet paper and wet the wrapping with suger water. It hardens up like paper mache and when the plant outgrows it it just breaks away and falls off.

Uncle Ben said:

It's called buddy tape or parafilm. Different purpose. (I do grafting once in a while)

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I'd like to experiment with grafting sometime. Its sound very interesting. Im not sure if they make something like this but when we cut ourselves we use antibiotic cream or spray to prevent infection. Is there a spray or something that you can use on plants to prevent infection at the site?

Heck, a storm split this outdoors grown plant way down into trunk which filled up with water, right smack dab in the middle of 2 of the main colas. I just pulled it back together the best I could with duct tape and went about my business. Had a great yield. I did spray it with asphalt based pruning paint, notice the black color.



Pot treated with copper hydroxide paint worked well, notice no root spinout?





Colas were so heavy they fell over in spite of my efforts to tie them up.

Uncle Ben said:

Heck, a storm split this outdoors grown plant way down into trunk which filled up with water, right smack dab in the middle of 2 of the main colas. I just pulled it back together the best I could with duct tape and went about my business. Had a great yield. I did spray it with asphalt based pruning paint, notice the black color.

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Colas were so heavy they fell over in spite of my efforts to tie them up.

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does the asphalt spray help seal it up, this plant is a beast

bigworm6969 said:

does the asphalt spray help seal it up, this plant is a beast

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I edited the post. Notice that fibrous rootball?

Paint is probably a feel good thing, another myth. I work a lot of perennials, probably make 2,000 pruning cuts a year and not any of them get any kind of treatment. I don't lose anything. Like you the wound will heal by itself.

Excellent article on the subject of wound dressings - http://puyallup.wsu.edu/~Linda Chalker-Scott/Horticultural Myths_files/Myths/Wound sealer.pdf