Freaking karma! Stems snapping

i never had a problem with stems snapping unless I did something dumb like fall on them. So I felt pretty good when I saw many threads on people talking about woody/fragile stems. Well my plant had slightly wilted this morning and after I watered it I went back and saw it had several branches snapped off pretty well , but were still connected about 50 percent. I looked up on these threads and found out that it’s common for stems to snap after a fresh watering when they can’t endure the weight of gravity as the rise back up. Anyway, this was a major issue for me bc I’m running on fumes. I can’t afford mistakes until I get a perpetual grow going so this is what I did. My question is, how long will it take till it heal fully I can switch it to 12/12 . I don’t want to switch it while it’s still repairing but I do want to switch it to flower ASAP. Thanks. Sorry for rambling a bit,...it’s what got me my card to allow me to grow (years back). Anyway, yea here’s what I did. Will adding some clones gel to the splits help the healing speed up. Thanks

I'm doing dwc and always twisting, bending, breaking and I find they take about a week to recover depending on the severity of the break though.

Are you locking out of calcium?
Is there any brown gunk in the broken stems?
CHECK PH
CHECK Ec/ppm
Then,
Check your runoff.
I have a sneaking suspicion you have lockout!!
Good luck
Tim

Tim1987 said:

Are you locking out of calcium?
Is there any brown gunk in the broken stems?
CHECK PH
CHECK Ec/ppm
Then,
Check your runoff.
I have a sneaking suspicion you have lockout!!
Good luck
Tim

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Dude, you're giving the same exact response to any and every single thread you reply to. Ph and ppm are not always the problem, and most certainly runoff is highly unreliable to be checking..especially if u have organics in your medium! In this case..stems snapping has zero to do with a ph problem or lockout! A lack of calcium and or potassium can contribute to weaker stems, however, if either of those deficiencies were caused by either a ph or element lockout, there would be wayt more signs on the plant that show issues! By the time you get to calcium being deficient, you will have already encountered a host of other issues! As for the advice you seem to be giving non stop to every thread about ppm, adjust and so on..people who are asking these questions, will not know how to interpret such results anyway..and again..runoff ppm's, in most all cases is very unreliable and inaccurate! Even if ppm's and ph would come out 'normal' looking, it still doesn't tell the story..ppm's can be right on..but that doesn't mean all is ok..one still may have too many ppm's of say phosphorus and not enough magnesium..in which case, ppm's don't matter. There is more to growing than simply cheking runoff ph and ppm's Best of luck in your grows! Seeing as how the plant doesn't look too bad, I'd ask..do you have air movement around your plants? Has there been a fan blowing on them? If not..your stems are likely hollow. When it snapped..how does the inside of the stem look?

Hydrowannabe said:

My question is, how long will it take till it heal fully I can switch it to 12/12 . I don’t want to switch it while it’s still repairing but I do want to switch it to flower ASAP. Thank

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I believe there was only 1 question in the post...all the rest was just rambling like he said.

Appologies.
Make a better HEADING, and post it elsewhere.
Take it easy
Tim

NrthrnMichigan said:

I believe there was only 1 question in the post...all the rest was just rambling like he said.

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if that's the case, not knowing the original health of the plant..the environment it is in..the condition of the stem when it snapped and the severity of the break, it can take 1 to 3 weeks for full recovery..sometimes it wont fully recover.

NrthrnMichigan said:

I'm doing dwc and always twisting, bending, breaking and I find they take about a week to recover depending on the severity of the break though.

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This is by far the best reply I have ever received on here. No bulls hit, straight to the point. Thanks dude! I will be flipping her soon hopefully,...didn’t really intend on growing her out this much, but I’m not the shot caller in this garden ha

I think I’m going to print up a “resume” like document Liston my method of growing and just change it up every time I change my methods. I could then attach thatbsaid document to every thread for those that like to know more info. I understand where you guys getting upset bc I didn’t provide much background info on my grow style, but if I wrote it out every time I asked a question, well, I could have found the answer in a book by that time. This site should seriously consider being able to attach a document like that to every thread so all questions are pre answered

Damn, sorry for the typos. I have yet to get the crust removed from my eyes

Twisting= calciium aswell
One of the first signs

At the worst, I get shitty yields from her...but her legacy lives on through her roots! she was more or less intended to get me back up and running a perpetual grow of some kind.

Tim1987 said:

Twisting= calciium aswell
One of the first signs

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Not to much twisting going on,..if any at all. There was in the younger stages but yea

Hydrowannabe said:

This is by far the best reply I have ever received on here. No bulls hit, straight to the point. Thanks dude! I will be flipping her soon hopefully,...didn’t really intend on growing her out this much, but I’m not the shot caller in this garden ha

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So the other replies had 'bs' in it lol. Dude, the reason i made it long is to explain it to you why it may have been caused in the first place so hopefully it doesn't happen to you in the future..and you call that reply 'bs'? lol. Good luck with your grows..see you again soon