Light fell on my baby! :-(

So basically during the 12 hour light cycle when I wasn't around, my light fell on the plant causing the plant to basically fall all the way over. The stem did not snap, and the roots Im sure are still intact. I guess my question is....If i prop it back up straight what are the odds it will survive. First of all It's in about week 5 of flowering and has some nice size buds on it(non of which are disturbed, broken, etc....) I in fact did prop the plant up and she looks ok but the leaves are drooping all over....Is this a sign of death, or just sever shock? Like I said the main stem is still intact and in the soil. Are there any things I can so to help her out? I will try to get some pictures up here but right now is the dark cycle...PLEASE SOMEONE HELP... Also I can clone at this point if im correct right?
 

alwinjames13

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s#!t what a disaster, my condolences...

Prop her back up, use a small stake and a string if necessary. If the roots were disturbed or pulled on at all she will droop for a few days but should be okay.

The other scenario would be that there was enough stem damage to really hurt the plant connection with the roots, in this case survival is probably questionable.

You can clone and if you do it right they'll survive but you will want to clone pretty quickly. There's a few threads on cloning plants that far into flowering, some people actually prefer to do it that way, they say it promotes more branches or something like that. I've never done it. Good luck. Take a close up pic of that stem when you can....
 
Theres really nothing to see as far as the stem to be honest....Even when it was laying on its side I could not see anything that looks even close to broke....I could kind of see roots but it looks like they were just moved out of the soil they were still connected...the plant is still firmly attached. I will get some pictures tonight....Thanks for the quick reply...Also when I proped the plant back up I packed soil firmly around the base of the stem...It really doesnt look like anything happened except the dropping leaves...
 

alwinjames13

Active Member
Then I would venture to say you will be okay, unfortunately it happened during flowering and a plant that goes thru a bit of trauma during this stage could slow or halt growth for a small while.
 

grow space

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Yesterday, one of my lights fell onto a good rooted, fine growing clone...I can say that light did the suppercropping for me...The stem was heavily bent and a lil snapped, but today it was looking good as yesterday and so one.....
 
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