Split main stem, I need an adult!

[SendWaves]

First time grower here. After a failed first attempt at LST my poor girl now has a split in the center of the main stem. Advice on next steps/how to treat this wound? Praying to the cannabis gods that it isn't fatal.

 

[Northern Hydro]

It will be fine ..just leave it

 

[greenjeans]

Others here will have some good ideas but I just held mine together with a wood clamp - I cushioned it with some rubbery stuff just so the clamp didn't cut in. Just the clamp in this picture.

 

[Stunger]

Don't worry. Cannabis is very resilient. I split one of my current 2 Quadlined girls, from all the training wires she was pretty 'sprung', I happened to bump into her a couple of times and that was enough for all that bound up tension to split her down the middle of the stem. I choose to use some electrical tape to wrap around the split and hopefully keep it from opening too much. I reckon cable ties would be great. That was a few months ago and she's fine, didn't blink an eye. I'll post a pic of her split if I can find it.

A split stem and the electrical tape binding I gave to mine

3-WWG, 2 days after knuckle split

• Stunger
• Jan 6, 2020

3-WWG, supportive binding with electrical tape showing small gap still there

• Stunger
• Jan 6, 2020

 

[SendWaves]

WHEW! Thanks everyone, super helpful! Everyone in 420 Mag I've come accross has been friendly, respectful and most importantly: helpful.

It will be fine ..just leave it

Others here will have some good ideas but I just held mine together with a wood clamp - I cushioned it with some rubbery stuff just so the clamp didn't cut in. Just the clamp in this picture.

Don't worry. Cannabis is very resilient. I split one of my current 2 Quadlined girls, from all the training wires she was pretty 'sprung', I happened to bump into her a couple of times and that was enough for all that bound up tension to split her down the middle of the stem. I choose to use some electrical tape to wrap around the split and hopefully keep it from opening too much. I reckon cable ties would be great. That was a few months ago and she's fine, didn't blink an eye. I'll post a pic of her split if I can find it.

A split stem and the electrical tape binding I gave to mine

3-WWG, 2 days after knuckle split

• Stunger
• Jan 6, 2020

3-WWG, supportive binding with electrical tape showing small gap still there

• Stunger
• Jan 6, 2020

WHEW! Thanks ya'll! Everyone in 420 Mag I've come accross has been friendly, respectful and most importantly: helpful. I appreciate you!

 

[Buds Buddy]

Some people split the main stem a few inches above the soil on purpose & stick a pencil in it to hold it open during flower. It sends a mad rush of nutes to the bud sites. It's called Stem Splitting. So you have nothing to worry about. Think of it as an accidental Super Cropped Branch.

 

[Rosti]

Electrical tape.

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I'm Cornfused

Are u a child? Asking for an adult to help you?

 

[Northern Hydro]

I'm going to guess, and hope not......don't grow up.. It's a trap

NAmaste!

 

[Northern Hydro]

Bad example because the plant is larfy .. but here is a doser for you.
.. it’s incredible to me she has any buds at all
Anyways good luck. I hope you have a good sense of humour and that you are an adult . Namaste

 

[AdaminCO]

I use medical tape and a zip tie, then spray it with water daily. It holds water which acts like Neosporin.
It doesn’t leave a film like E-tape, is sterile, allows the plant to breathe, and is easy to remove.

 

[SendWaves]

I'm Cornfused

Are u a child? Asking for an adult to help you?

Bad example because the plant is larfy .. but here is a doser for you.
.. it’s incredible to me she has any buds at all
Anyways good luck. I hope you have a good sense of humour and that you are an adult . Namaste

Once upon a time I was a young lad earning $25 a week from my skimpy ass parents-for doing absolutely nothing. They called it "allowance," I called it bullshit. Then I discovered a thing called babysitting. I found that other parents in my neighborhood would pay good money to pre-pubescent boys and girls to watch over their toddlers while they went out on the town. Are you kidding me? Sign me up. My pesky parentals did not believe I understood how much responsibility I'd be taking on, keeping a toddler alive and what not. Eventually they caved and I got myself my first babysitting gig watching this snot-nosed 5 year old of a single mom in the neighborhood for a few hours one evening. When the evening came for me to get that easy cash money, I arrived at the house and was given the lay of the land. The kid just needed to survive in my care for 3 hours. Within the first 2 hours on the job this kid had a full-blown siezure; eyes rolled in he back of his head, flopping around like a fish, foaming at the mouth, bleeding profusely from a head wound where he bounced it off the floor, the whole nine. So there I am watching this kid convulse and bleed out, wondering how many years I'd go to jail for this happening on my watch. Would I get the death penalty? Maybe he's just a demon. What I really needed then, just as I find myself needing now, was an adult.

I hope this clears up any cornfusion as to the nature of this thread's title, which by the way sounds like a terrible time...wandering around, lost in a corn maze or something.

PS: That is a true story BUT fear not, the little guy recovered and is alive and well today. He just needed 20 stitches in his skull where he cracked it, a blood transfusion and treatment for what we now call a "TBI." Otherwise fit as a fiddle.

I have too much time on my hands.

 

[Northern Hydro]

Omg glad the lil man is a ok

Too funny !
Your plant will be just fine.. I have to keep reminding myself it’s a ‘weed’ . Pretty hardy for the most part Namaste