I ripped the main stem pretty bad, and she recovered

Maybe this will be useful to someone. I used to be very afraid of touching my plants when I started growing, but when I finally understood how resilient they were, then I started experimenting. I have this plant here... I didn't do this on purpose. I do low stress training, and sometimes accidents happen. Pulled one branch in one direction, and an opposite branch in the opposite direction. I heard a crack, then I saw the main stem was ripped. Like 3-4 cm, you could clearly see the inside.

I thought I messed up big time, but I remember hearing that you could just duct tape the spot and the plant would recover. I did, and in less than a week, she was like this:



She fixed the spot by filling it with some kind of woody sap. It's still moist, like a recent wound.
And she looks better than before:





I am still surprised at how much torture these plants can endure. Maybe I find this interesting because im high lol but there you go.

I like Green painters tape, if you forget about it the plant will blow through it as it grows .

It will be fine. I have split stems way worse many times, didn't even try to patch it up and they were fine for 2 months of flowering. If you wanna stop it from getting worse put a zip tie around it for a few weeks then cut it off.

BigHornBuds said:

I like Green painters tape, if you forget about it the plant will blow through it as it grows .

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I removed it but I was wondering what would happen if I left it on. That's actually amazing.

Done the same thing myself during overly zealous LST. It's amazing how resilient this plant is isn't it lol

I chopped down males before and left 3 or 4" of trunk still in the ground and it shot leaves off like it was still trying to grow right were it was cut weeks later. I basically cut its head off and it started to grow another one. I had to pull the root ball up to finally kill it. Resilient little basterds.

elfo777 said:

I am still surprised at how much torture these plants can endure. Maybe I find this interesting because im high lol but there you go.

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Don't be. Its's just a plant and like other plants it can take a significant amount of abuse. There is nothing special about cannabis. It doesn't need and super special care or all the fairy dust targeted towards cannabis growers to grow and thrive. Some people think you need to treat it differently than other plants and spend money on cannabis specific nutrients, equipment, doo dads, etc... You don't. I've split stems before. I use whatever tape is handy. Duct tape, masking, scotch, electrical, etc... I've used it all. I do the same thing when a big branch on one of my tomato plants splits. I mention tomato because growing cannabis is no different.