My Cannabis Plant is Broken…What Should I do?

I Have Accidentally Broken My Cannabis Plant…Can I Fix It?

Yes, one can ‘fix’ a broken cannabis plant, and here is how….

I accidentally broke my cannabis plant when I was building a wattle fence to slow down some of the winds that have been very strong this year.

I was using green pine poles from some small pine trees I was thinning. it was heavy in the butt, and as I was throwing it over my hot fence…that butt end caught a post and went awry…crashing right into one of my plants. It took all the limbs on one side of the plant all the way to the ground.

I could have tried to save some of the limbs, but they were so mangled I decided for a clean amputation of the limbs. I am growing seed in this grow, and one half a plant will still produce thousands of seeds…and I am wondering if the plant will send out more limbs on that side? What do you think…will it be able to grow more limbs where they have all been taken off right at the main stem?

Will be a fun experiment to see what the plant can accomplish.

Contrary to what one will find online….cannabis plants are wonderfully tough and resilient…they are survivors in the plant world. They have always impressed me with that toughness.

Fixing a Broken Cannabis Plant

Even though I decided to not attempt to put any of the limbs back on that plant…it had a sister at the other end of the grow that had a limb broken down just from the winds this spring. That limb was still actively growing, and even if I had left it on the ground it would have grown on more then likley. I have seen them do that on many occasions.

I also had a plant this year that was wind whipped till it was loose in the hole the main stem was in. Here is an article I wrote about that…Wind Rocking Your Weed? Fix Loose Cannabis Stems in Soil

The best fix I have found for this kind of break is to simply tape it back into place…as in the image above.

Duct tape will work, but it is harder to work with then the very common electrical tape…which I used in the image. You can see the broken limb was a big major limb of this plant. When taping a limb like this up…you want to support it well…you do not want it able to move much at the break…that is why you see I taped it to the main stock, as well as the other limbs in the vicinity. This give the broken limb some good rigidity…assuring it will be able to grow back. I likley could take the tape off at some point…but I never do, I just leave it till harvest. I have done this many times over the years…have saved huge limbs on much bigger plants.

Can a Broken Cannabis Plant Recover?

The short answer to this question is…absolutely, yes a cannabis plant can recover. Cannabis is all about doing what all plants live their lives to do…produce seed and propagate their species. I wrote a post about fixing a broken cannabis limb here…Fixing Broken Cannabis Stems: Step-by-Step Recovery

That is why they flower so profusely…they want to make as many seeds as they can.

Sensemillia is seeds-less cannabis flowers. And, sensemillia is what most cannabis growers want. Did you know that a cannabis plant that produces sensemillia is basically an old maid who never had children? Yep, a frustrated old lady in the cannabis world.

And, the reason sensemillia flowers get bigger then seeded flowers is the plant continues to bloom…all in the hope that some cannabis pollen will show up…and the plant can do what it so wants to do….make seeds…

Conclusion

I will update this post, or write another one and let you know how both broken plants fared. I will let you know…have you ever broken a cannabis plant? How did you repair it. How did it turn out? Let me know in a comment…I love comments…and I answer them all if an answer is needed.