Hi guys,
We had a bad storm and this branch fractured due to heavy rainfall.
This happened on Tuesday night and it is now Friday afternoon as I write this.
Would I be better off cutting this off and maybe propagating (is that possible?) to let the other parts flourish since it is so late in the season or leave it and let it grow.
Cheers
by AlexanderTheAVG
4 Comments
Considering it is flowering, I wouldn’t risk trying to propagate a clone from this branch. If this plant was still in more of a vegetative state, i would say go for it but hormone production changes in plants once flowering begins.You would be surprised what some electrical tape and a bamboo stake for support would do.
This happened to my squash. I broke a stem moving the pot.
I put it in water for two weeks. It started growing a couple of roots. Then put it into a pot, and it started growing again as well as producing fruit.
Good luck and happy gardening.
It’s not completely broken off. Looks like it’s mostly intact actually. I’d tape that bad boy up and give it some support. I’ve had broken branches heal.
Advice? Menards buckets are cheaper than Lowes buckets.
When this happens to me, I use wood skewers that people buy for kitchen use. I then use saran wrap (cut in to strips to fit the job, like an inch wide usually) and wrap the saran wrap around the bad spot and skewer (obviously cut the skewer to a good size). Go one way around, go back the other way with another strip, go around again the original way. If you are worried about it not holding, I use garden Velcro on each end or you can just use string I’m sure.
In this case, I would also start by putting in a bamboo support (like the kind you buy in the garden center) first and placing the branch in the place you want it first with the least stress. Again, garden Velcro to attach to the bamboo support.