Broken Cannabis Plants…Can They Survive?

Update on My Broken Cannabis Plants

Nature can be rough, and cannabis plants grown outdoors can succumb to breakage or worst! I have seen cannabis plants snapped off right at the ground…although that is extreme.

Usually breakage from wind or weight is in those lower branches…they can become long, and their angle is just not good for strength.

I have written two other posts on this subject, and here they are….

Fixing Broken Cannabis Stems: Step-by-Step Recovery

My Cannabis Plant is Broken…What Should I Do?

This will be an update on the steps I took to heal two plants in this grow that got broken. One was from the wind and a heavy lower branch that simply could not support it’s weight…. here is the plant a week later, the broken branch is in the forefront…

You will see no wilting, and would not even know that big limb was taped back up from the looks of the plant. This tape fix I have used many times and usually works great.

And, as explained in one of the articles above I was throwing a heavy log over the hot fence to build my wattle fence…things went south and the log ended up crushing about half a plant. ripping all the limbs on one side right to the ground. I could have perhaps saved some of those limbs with tape, but decided they were simply too damaged and culled them all. I knew being this early in the year the plant would make a full recovery, and believe it or not…that plant will likely fill that space back in before harvest.

Here is an image of that plant only one week later…

Oh, that is right I did tape up the two main limbs on the one plant that had split right there…you can see in the image. Cannabis is a very resilient plant that can recover from an incredible amount of damage.

I will do a few more updates on this subject, and prove to you just how tough these plants can be.

Conclusion

This will be the final update on this post. So can a plant with literally half it’s limbs broken off, with substantial damaqge done to it’s ‘bark’s survive…and even thrive?

The short answer is yes, if the damage occurs early enough in the season. Here is an image of that plant now…after a few weeks of veg growth in it’s hugelkultur planting bed…

You can see it is all about filling that space with new growth….amazing really. You can remove literally half the plant, and it can recover and be just as big as it would have been.

How is this possible?

Well the plant has a root syatem that is big enough to support the entire plant…pre-breakage…and after the break that same large root syatem is all about recovery…this plants whole life is about just one thing, producing seed….producing just as many seeds as it can.

Have any horror stories about broken cannabis plants? I would love to hear about it in a comment.