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HELP! Save me from myself!

DeadlyFruit

DeadlyFruit

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I am so pissed at myself! I created a problem and I am hoping someone has a creative solution that will help minimize the damage.


I have my summer crop (4 photos) under lights getting them bulked up before hardening them and putting them outside for the summer. I intended to manifold two of them and let the other two grow naturally. I made the first cut on the two plants that are being manifolded, topping them in the usual way, just above the 3rd node after the sixth node was just starting to show. I follow the GWE method of manifolding mainly. I haven’t yet made the second cut. I trimmed the growth points below the third node but not yet the fan leaves. I am growing in coco with GHE nutrients under 600w HPS. The plants are growing pretty vigorously. I have a couple clones from the 2 manifolded plants (just for experimenting with clones and because I can never bring myself to toss a healthy top). I hadn’t originally intended to grow the clones to full size - they are much smaller than their mothers so far but I could use them as a plan B if I had to.

The problem.... I managed to snap one of the two main sides branches on one of the topped plants shortly after the first topping, so the only growth still attached to the plant is from the opposite side of the node. I thought I could tape the broken limb to rescue it but it broke so close to a growth node it was hard to work with and eventually broke off completely. I still taped it hoping for a miracle but the branch is well and truly F’d up and definitely dead.

What I am hoping is someone has found an alternative way to train a plant with this problem in order to minimize the damage. As it stands now I will get a half crop from it because of where it snapped but maybe someone has tried a manifold setup that could be started from just one side of the main stem. Maybe we are about to discover the secret to giant nugs! I might have tried manifolding from the second node instead of the third but I’d already cut off the growth on the second set of leaves. If rescuing the plant isn’t worth it I could try to speed along one of the small clones to take its place (our max allowed is 4 plants) but I am still hoping to be able to do something with the much larger damaged plant.

All suggestions welcome!
 
Shoot, I've broken a few branches off in the process of learning the mainline game!!! I'd grow out what's left, and hope for giant buds. Someone in the forum recently grew a single cola plant and produced 3 oz from it!!! So I wouldn't be afraid of turning what's left into two or four colas and letting her go. They should be super strong colas without competition from the other side.

Can you show us a picture, pretty please?
 
Hi Catfish22 , yes I could top it again if I thought it would help. The main plant looks very healthy, it is just missing that first main branch on one side so it it is very lopsided. Unfortunately I had already cleaned off the growth points below that first cut so any future topping would have to be only on that second side. It would look very lopsided (even more so) but I would be able to increase the number of colas that way to a more normal number. Any thoughts on where/ when to do that alternate topping? I assume as quickly as possible is the likely answer, to avoid any more delay but don’t know if you’ve tried it any specific way?
 
Hi Floopydoop I actually rooted the top I cut off when I topped it so I have a clone as my plan B, I was just hoping someone tried an alternative approach using the existing plant because it is so much bigger than the clone.
 
Hi alltatup that approach is what I have on the go now, which is just to let the remainder grow out. I thought I may top it once or twice more and just leave it under the lights for a bit longer than the other plants to see if I can help it along before putting it outside.
 
alltatup here she is. Basically, half the plant is gone. I am going to start using the heavier rubber plant ties as the twist tie style can be too sharp clearly. I left the room with it tied down fine but the movement of the fan must have flexed it enough that it snapped. Now it is a sad withered limb hanging from my effort at first aid (which normally works great). In behind are the plants I am going to leave natural and the solo cup in front is a clone from the first topping.

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I'm not sure about where to top it. I just thought it may be an option.
There are others here who can give much better advice than I on that question.
 
I'm a little late to the party, but I've done this before too. I topped the remaining branch and trained it like it was still normal. It starts off looking really lopsided, but as it grows that should go away somewhat depending on how you do the training. You probably already did what you needed to, but I thought I'd throw a reply in there anyway.
 
Unfortunately I'm a bit late too but a wild thought occurred to me as I read something about grafting yesterday. What if you had grafted a branch from it's clone onto the stem below the break? I believe hemp to be graftable (spell ck doesn't like that word but you get the idea). Certainly no issue with rejection. Think I'll do a google search.
 
It's possible to graft a new branch onto the snapped one, but it may take a while for it to connect and then a little longer to start growing. I believe that may make it a not-so-fast solution to the issue. If he was to top above the second node and tie the 4 remaining branches down it would basically turn into the quadlining technique some of us use and it will cut the recovery/growth time down too.
 
In retrospect that may be why we don't graft annual plants, lol! However lets say you have a sturdy plant with a great root stock you want to preserve for it's heat tolerance but want to grow another strain not so you could graft that onto your root.. ??? I'm gonna go see what was in that bowl I hit awhile ago.................
 
I say Nxt time you break a branch leave it be. I never use low stress training. I snap each n every branch as I pull it down to tie down. Last grow I accidentally broke a cola while defoliating- it was hanging on but broken half off just hanging there. I cursed my luck- left it like it was & it finished off perfectly right along with the rest of the plant.
 
I must politely disagree with JDU My experience: If the branch remains attached, I can always repair it with medical adhesive tape wound tight to keep the branch in its original place.

Now that's different from super-cropping, where the exterior of the branch is intact, with no exterior break.
 
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