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It fell over coz the stem went all skinny and weak but it's still alive after falling over 2-3 days ago, anything I can do to help it or is it doooooooomed?
Help seedling has fallen over what do I do?
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So I should gently try to stand her up with a toothpick? Should I use any sticky tape or anything?
Airwalker16
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You need to re pot it and bury the stem almost completely if you want any hope of saving that. It looks like it's straight broken in half.
Airwalker16
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It's not. But oh well. Guy needed help.
VegasWinner
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get a piece of hanger and bend it into a hoop and bend the hoop 90 degrees to form a stake with a handle, and stick it in the ground and place the hoop around the stalk to hold it up.. My Soma secret for the day. peace
Roger A. Shrubber
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and get a 14 watt florescent tube about 2 inches above that plant and keep it there till it thickens up, don't make seedlings reach for the light or you get that
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Olive Drab Green
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Do you need to move your light closer? Your stem should never get that stretchy.
Olive Drab Green
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Because shit only stretches like that when there's insufficient light.
CannaQueen420
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I would use a little more of the soil you have used to gently build a mound around it to support it to just below the leaves. Trying to transplant at that size is way to delicate and potentially a disaster
Walter9999
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Cut a solo cup down to the height you need then cut a small slit in the solo up the side and to the center allowing the stem in. Make the height to where the top leaves are able to rest as it heals and strengthens...g/l
upinthesticks
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Id try a combo of these, if it were me. Id build up what you can, and they tape a paperclip (i use flexible rubber coated wire, LOVE it) to the outside of cup, and make a loose ring around stem, just to keep up right and get rid of that kink. Transplanting would be great if successful.
Maybe take and scoop out the whole area around plant (large enough not to disturb roots, like when they transplant a tree kinda) and take out (a friend maybe) a few handfuls of soil underneath, drop seedling back in and then would have the space to build up around stem. I dunno. Just brainstorming. Have had seedlings fall over and be fine, but never with that kink in stem. Good luck!
Buba Blend
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A lot of ideas to save the seedling if it can be saved. To me it looks like the way a seedling looks when it suffers from damping off. If it is nothing will save it.
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I was just posting the same thing LOL.
Roger A. Shrubber
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that doesn't look like damping off to me, theres no darkening of the stem, it doesn't look like any thin spots in the stem, just the whole stem is too thin. i really think it just got too tall. try propping it up. honestly, i'd go with cannaqueen and build a little hill around it and leave it alone for a few days, let the stem thicken up.
Buba Blend
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Maybe, but to me that is the look of damping off in the 1st or 2nd day. The classic two bends in the stem and when I zoom in on the picture it looks weak between the two bends. I say try to save it. We will know in a few days.