so ill post pics soon when i get down there- but heres the situation...my plants stem broke a few wks ago and i have it securly splited so its stable but air can get on the woond...it hasnt seem to have fully healed yet...and its now rapidly flowering...however...2 days ago i came down to see them and from the wound up the leaves are starting to droop...it looks like underwatering....and i gave it a half gallon today and will be going back with more shortly...it is hot out...but it just seems strange that up until 2 days ago the leaves were all up right on that part and now they are droopy...whats even stranger...is that none of the other branches below it are like that at all...is it dying...can someone plz tell me what it might be...its a big plant and has been doing great and i really dont want to loose it!
I had 2 big branches snap due to a crazy windstorm and the same thing happened. The main colas were fine but all the growth around where it snapped started to wilt and die. Its natural. Nothing to worry about. Just make sure u prop the branch up, so it can heal itself faster.
ok cool...ill still post pics...ya the buds seem to be getting bigger thats whats weird...but the top 2 feet of the plant is really wilting...when all the other parts are still healthy and upright...its not even turning yellow or anything...just the leaves are all limp and droopy....i figured if it were an infection it prob would have gotten worse b4 this as the plant has been wounded for close to a month...will the top part still develop and grow properly?
Its hard to say without seein pics but my guess is, when it snapped the plant went into "o shit, im gonna die and i hope someone fucks me before that happens" mode and thats why that one branch started flowering rapidly. Well i can only speak in my experience but the leaves that started droopin never popped back up. They just yellowed and died. Mine broke about 8 inches from the ground, and leaned on my tomato cage n i added a piece of plywood under it to prop it up more and in a month, it was safe to take the plywood off and it grew back fine.
ya man the leaves have wilted more all above the wound....the buds seem just as fine as the lower branches but the leaves are totally droopy...i took pics but they were too dark to even bother to post...so ill take better ones tomorrow and post them...did you find your yeild was possibly impacted...and the effected section of the plant's buds grow the same as the others...just with the leaves looking shitty?
Yea it will impact the yield, especially if it snaps during flowering. Most of the energy is used to heal the wound. But its better to have a branch that yields a little as opposed to it snapping completely in two and having none. Dont worry about it man. It happens all the time due to wind and wildlife.
so im so absolutely sad...here is my beautiful cluster...i think japanese beatles got her...the wound has been the same for 3 + wks...never healed so it is stable...but the parts of the plant above the wound have been growing just fine until a couple days ago when i noticed the leaves wilting...now they are definetly dying...the buds dont look much different than the lower buds...i couldnt get a good shot of the wound with the crappy light and my camera...but i can describe it...i pulled the plant over too far with LST and the stalk broke in half and never fully recovered...its brown and soft looking where the break is and i think the bugs that i saw crawling all over it have gotten the better part of it...i put a small piece of surgical skin tape over it....i hope the chemicals in it dont kill the plant but i wanted to ask so if its a bad idea ill take it off tomorrow...it looks as though 20-30 percent of the plant is like this...the other branches look good and healthy...i wanna know 3 things: 1 will the rest of the plant grow normally? 2 will the top buds where the leaves are drooping continue to grow or will they just die? 3. should i just cut the plant where the wound is or just leave it the way it is? thanks and please help...this is my 2nd biggest plant!
also how much will this affect the yeild on this plant...it just seems funn that the plant has been fine with the wound...thru heat rain and wind for almost a month and now in a few days it just started to droop...i think its bugs!
[quote name='"crazycanadian"']so ill post pics soon when i get down there- but heres the situation...my plants stem broke a few wks ago and i have it securly splited so its stable but air can get on the woond...it hasnt seem to have fully healed yet...and its now rapidly flowering...however...2 days ago i came down to see them and from the wound up the leaves are starting to droop...it looks like underwatering....and i gave it a half gallon today and will be going back with more shortly...it is hot out...but it just seems strange that up until 2 days ago the leaves were all up right on that part and now they are droopy...whats even stranger...is that none of the other branches below it are like that at all...is it dying...can someone plz tell me what it might be...its a big plant and has been doing great and i really dont want to loose it![/quote] I would recommend tying in so air doesn't get on the wound. It should be snug so the branch can heal back together. Allowing airflow may have allowed infection to set in, or just dried out the inside of the branch too much for it to function. Essentially killing it. I would remove that branch and let the plant focus on the rest of the healthy growth. Chances are that branch won't produce any sizable bud now anyway.
Ok now that i see your pics, it looks to me the branch is dead or on its way to dying. I thought you were saying that the leaves around where it snapped were dying but the top cola was fine. Cut that branch off hoss.