Snapped the stem

In the process of upgrading my lighting syste, I managed to snap the stem on a 3cm plant (only been in soil about 5/6 days).

I've read a few threads/guides about attaching a broken plant to a support and that'll allow it to heal in time, but this is such a yong plant, I really think attaching it to something is a bad idea, and just going to cripple it.

So here's what I did. I've given it a dedicated 25W CFL just over an inch from the plant, now in it's natural orientation the plant is facing the clf directly, so instead of tieing it to a support, i got a small piece of card and basically propped the shoot up by placing it under the leaves. I also added a little more water (maybe 30-50 mls) but not much since I'm trying not to spoil any of my plants

So it has a dedicated light now, and a "soft-splint" to prop the stem up so the leaves are getting the maximum light.

Aside from watching and maybe replacing the splint, can anyone see any problems with this?

I was raging when it hapened, of 5 seeds 3 have developed really well so far, and I want at least 1 male/female so I can get some seeds/pollen for future runs, was looking reasonably good, the i went and broke the stem grrrrr

Also, while I'm posting this, I have two other seeds that have yet to sprout, I'm thinking I'll give them until Monday (it's Tuesday at midnight here) and then see about placing them somewhere with a slightly elevated temperature. Any other suggestions there?

Thanks for reading!

i dont think the little guy will survive, i snapped my stem of a plant that was like 2 weeks old and had 3 sets of leaves when i was putting in my outlet timer lol and i supported him for like ... 4 days? but i saw the spot it was snapped and it just kept rotting so i got rid of it.

sounds to me like it might be too severe to repair, but i suppose you've got nothing to lose by trying to save it.

I snapped a strawberry cough clone about 2/3rds of the way off. I set it up streight (the snap was right where the stem connected with the roots in the rockwool) put dirt around it and kept it moist and fed it superthrive. You would have never been able to tell that the stem on this plant was snapped in half besides having slow growth. And of course it came back full stregnth.

Good news!

Checking up after work, (roughly 24 hrs after the initial break), removed the soft-splint and the stem is staying erect all on its own

I've left the soft-splint in, just moved it around so the plant isn't de
pending on it to stay upright, right now it's just there so thatif there is a problme the stem can "fall back" onto the soft-splint.

So far so good then