Help! Can I save my cucumber plant?!

Dannii · « **on:** June 03, 2008, 21:47 »

Hi!

This may be a REALLY stupid question but I was gutted to find when I came home this afternoon my cucumber plant had been broken in the wind

it is still attached but snapped is there any way I can save it and if so please tell me how, it has got so big I dont want to give up on it!! any suggestions....superglue, no more nails, gaffa tape?!!

Thanks

Dannii

agapanthus · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2008, 21:49 »

I'd go with the gaffa tape!!!

iwantanallotment · « **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2008, 21:55 »

gaffa tape, and a pea stick as a splint

tweeky · « **Reply #3 on:** June 03, 2008, 22:11 »

ICU at the local hospital. :roll:

Yea go with the tape, if its not completely broken.

gobs · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2008, 23:08 »

Well, I'm notorious for dropping well developed, freshly potted on seedlings, from that experience I can report, if the stalk is broken they almost invariably die. :roll:

So, you might be just as well off, making a clean cut nearby with secs and see if it branches from there. :?

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