Halp! I LST'd too hard and broke something. :(

[AltarNation]

I tried to use a piece of tape first but I didn't feel too good about it... had a feeling it would be hard to get off, and it was too wide so I kept accidentally putting it over baby leaves or flower sites.

 

[BendBrewer]

You are making WAY too big of a fucking deal over this thing.

RDWHABH!

 

[zvuv]

You are making WAY too big of a fucking deal over this thing.
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Yeah. It's a common accident. Almost any tape will work. It just has to hold it in place and keep the break from drying up.

I just snapped a big main branch completely off at the node where it joins the main stem. I wired it in place for support and wound the join with electrical tape. She's doing fine. In fact the branch is growing like nothing happened.

 

[AltarNation]

Bend: I was just being careful, making sure to be a good plant daddy. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way.

This thread is done with now anyway, all is resolved. I apologize to everyone if this thread was in bad form!

 

[Mr G row]

no need to apologise! that's what this site is for! asking questions an getting help from fellow growers!

 

[zvuv]

Bend: I was just being careful, making sure to be a good plant daddy. Sorry if it rubbed you the wrong way.

This thread is done with now anyway, all is resolved. I apologize to everyone if this thread was in bad form!

I think Bend was really just trying to reassure you by saying it's no big deal.

As Mr G said, this thread is a good example of what Rollitup is for. Experienced growers helping someone solve a problem with his grow.

If I had something valuable that I had put a lot of work into and suddenly broke it in half, I'd be alarmed too, and when people tell me it's no big deal I'd want to make very sure I understood what they were saying before I relaxed.

I manage to do this at least a couple of times every grow and it always mends easily. The only failure I had was trying to reattach a leaf ( just for fun ). It's still a bit of a shock when this happens. Looking at one of the major colas lying on the floor next to the pot gave me a queasy feeling. If it were a human this would be a terrible injury, but with mj plants you can just pick up the whole leg and push it back into place. She hardly even slows down.

 

[skunkpunk13]

the other thing is it might be in shock for a few days so if ur feeding it cool the nutes first (dont mix the nutes as strong) just so u dont add a nute issue ontop of it like a burn or stunting it even more..