High winds last night

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I went out there with some stakes and string.
As this is my first outdoor grow, will she make it?
I know they're very hard to kill, but I don't know how long she was down and the weight of the branches meant that some bent right in half and split open as I pushed her upright.
I might just go back to indoors after this. I'll update the thread around noon, and again before nightfall.
Now for some coffee.

I think you should be good, it doesn't look like roots got ripped out, the branches that split may be hit or miss depending on how bad it is.

I would suggest wrapping a trellis net around the outside/inside for support if you go outside again. The tomato cages I find have too much rigidity and leads to more branch stem breaks. The trellis net allows the entire plant to move more naturally while giving it support throughout so the branches will get stronger too.

Good luck!

You may be surprised, some of the best plants I've seen has had something like this happen.

Thanks guys. The part that worries me is that at the base it looks like the roots got ripped from the stem. My pic isn't clear but it look kinda like what happens when a big tree gets blown over. The stem is still straight, but there's a little ridge of dirt attached to roots around it. I'll have to go get a trellis net, for now I'm just hoping the twine holds. The fucking wind is still gusting, and I heard there might have been a tornado nearby.
Some branches have started perking up, but I figure any that don't look better by evening are done.
I should've kept topping to keep it under the fence line. Live and learn.

Pretty cool when you see them just left on their side to grow and it reroots into the ground and grows sideways.

Lol, have a big ass patch of half flowered weed in the middle of the back yard lawn.

Dont give up on the outdoors just yet please. At least try one more time and then you know you have to support them. Outdoor can be so rewarding ...but it has its hardships for sure lol

This def is true in veg. It will keep growing. But in a case close to flowering...it could cause deficiencies during the start of mumming process and continue to struggle to uptake nutes esoecially in the case of a stem split. Just throwing that out there.
Im currently having this issue. My 2 stem ( split in 4 dirrections) split plants are yellowing up faster. On one the buds seem to be producing slower that the rest.

Sometimes it seems we forget, these are plants with genetics... kind of like us, some of them just do their own thing.

Diabolical666 said:

This def is true in veg. It will keep growing. But in a case close to flowering...it could cause deficiencies during the start of mumming process and continue to struggle to uptake nutes esoecially in the case of a stem split. Just throwing that out there.
Im currently having this issue. My 2 stem ( split in 4 dirrections) split plants are yellowing up faster. On one the buds seem to be producing slower that the rest.

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She's been in flower for about a month. Has a ton of seeds courtesy of my neighbour.

ganga gurl420 said:

Dont give up on the outdoors just yet please. At least try one more time and then you know you have to support them. Outdoor can be so rewarding ...but it has its hardships for sure lol

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Thanks, I'll put a plant outside next year, but I'll be using pots I think. I had a Cherry Bomb in a pot earlier this year and I was able to flower her early and get some good weed. First plant I had that got to 5 feet tall.

Please nothing less than a 20 gal pot. And even at that 20 gal. is still kinda scimping out.

omgBoNg said:

Sometimes it seems we forget, these are plants with genetics... kind of like us, some of them just do their own thing.

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What do you mean? It was winds in a thunderstorm that knocked her down, not genetics.

omgBoNg said:

Please nothing less than a 20 gal pot.

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With rocks in the bottom for windy days. And topped to keep the height down under the fence line.

Not referring to winds really, more just a realization just now. Kinda like we baby em too much. Some strive, some well, not so much. Idk.

CanadianJim said:

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I went out there with some stakes and string.
As this is my first outdoor grow, will she make it?
I know they're very hard to kill, but I don't know how long she was down and the weight of the branches meant that some bent right in half and split open as I pushed her upright.
I might just go back to indoors after this. I'll update the thread around noon, and again before nightfall.
Now for some coffee.

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Yea she took a pretty hard shot. Maybe pull some of that grass out around the base. Then support her up, and cover the base around her with about 5 er so inches of fresh soil and that should get the top of the root system back on track a little quicker. Good luck

CanadianJim said:

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I went out there with some stakes and string.
As this is my first outdoor grow, will she make it?
I know they're very hard to kill, but I don't know how long she was down and the weight of the branches meant that some bent right in half and split open as I pushed her upright.
I might just go back to indoors after this. I'll update the thread around noon, and again before nightfall.
Now for some coffee.

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My buddy had one plant snap about a foot up from ground...he never touched it...it survived and grew up...the buds were all kinda half moon shaped at harvest time, but I think it will be ok as long as you mend the breaks and tie her to some supports for awhile...GL

CanadianJim said:

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I went out there with some stakes and string.
As this is my first outdoor grow, will she make it?
I know they're very hard to kill, but I don't know how long she was down and the weight of the branches meant that some bent right in half and split open as I pushed her upright.
I might just go back to indoors after this. I'll update the thread around noon, and again before nightfall.
Now for some coffee.

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They’ll make it.

Zephyrs said:

Yea she took a pretty hard shot. Maybe pull some of that grass out around the base. Then support her up, and cover the base around her with about 5 er so inches of fresh soil and that should get the top of the root system back on track a little quicker. Good luck

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There's no grass there, just the leaves of some flowering plants, but thanks.

Mak'er Grow said:

My buddy had one plant snap about a foot up from ground...he never touched it...it survived and grew up...the buds were all kinda half moon shaped at harvest time, but I think it will be ok as long as you mend the breaks and tie her to some supports for awhile...GL

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What has me concerned is that she seems to have snapped below the ground, with the roots torn right off on one side. Thanks

Here's the noon update, keeping her upright seems to have helped some branches, but others are still wilted. Any point to leaving them on there or are they just dead weight?

hotrodharley said:

They’ll make it.

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She, lol. Some of her branches are bigger than any of my indoor plants ever got, but she's just one plant.